So go use robots and other more automated vehicles to create the means necessary for human survival.
For instance, send a robot to Mars ahead of future human exploration and set up a habitat, start making oxygen, water, and foodstuffs.
No need to wait till we get there to start terraforming/colonizing a small piece.
Yes, I felt a little dirty writing that...
Not half as dirty as we felt reading it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Personally I almost wish this scenario had played out as in:
A State Of Disobedience: http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743471709/0743471709.htm?blurb
If you can, try stopping for a few minutes, and putting a warm compress over your eyes for a few minutes (put a washcloth under running hot water, wring it out). For me I've found that the rare migraines are usually coming from my sinuses, and this helps open them up again.
New Jersey, India, and China.
Ah yes, the new "Axis of Evil"!
AT&T will charge Netflix, and that will cause Netflix to increase their prices. You'll pay the price either way.
... and either way the money goes to AT&T.
Even now, they have no clue what they want to be, an ink and printer 'giant'? Give me a break.
They should invest in 3D scanning/printing, and market a reasonable 3D printer. There are several interesting technologies that require consumables, which seems to be what they were best at marketing.
Agreed. I just pulled a small 3.2 fl oz sample I just got from the Dentist of "Listerine: Total Care"
It's got an expiration date in 2012, and the label lists ingredients as:
Active:
Sodium Fluoride 0.0221% (0.01% w/v fluoride ion)
Inactive:
Water, Sorbitol Solution, Alcohol (21.6%), flavors, poloxamer 407, sodium lauryl sulfate, phosphoric acid, sucralose, dibasic sodium phosphate, FD&C red no. 40, FD&C blue no. 1
Directions are:
Vigorously swish 10 ml (2 teaspoonfulls) of rinse between your teeth for 1 minute and then spit out.
Haven't seen anything listed, but I would bet that they somehow "fingerprint" their media, and then use something akin to Shazam to see if a given soundtrack can be matched against the fingerprints in their catalogue.
The real issue here is how do you handle Copyright for "naturally occurring sounds" (Birds, Waves, Wind through Trees)? Chances are someone produced a library of these things for license. Do they hold the copyright and are they allowed to license their library? I'd say sure. They produced it with (presumably work on their part).
Okay, now someone else (as in our story), goes out and produces an all new original recording of the same naturally occurring phenomena. Why should the new person not have the copyright for their new work? How do you prove actual infringement?
The only way I can think of is that in order to prove copyright for naturally occurring sounds, there must be some acoustic signature inserted so that they are no longer naturally occurring sounds.
Its akin to me taking a picture of the skyline and using it on a web page, and then being sued because someone else already took a picture of that skyline and had it in a database somewhere.
The "large" in "large guns" was not from my post. I used the word "guns". Unless, and until armored ships appear on the scene, a standard
The Soviets equipped their space stations with 23mm aircraft cannons. That should be enough for everyone.
Good point. I'd assume the fact that they KEPT doing it, meant they probably tested it out once or twice and it seemed to work (backup emergency propulsion system?
The nearest we have is sea-warfare.
You have to bring the enemy to battle, to destroy them. Convoys have precisely this purpose.
A 100km is close in space terms.
This.
The two main ways to look at space warfare are basically "Air Warfare in Space" or "Naval Warfare in Space". I think most people agree that the Naval Warfare model is more likely given current technology levels.
Two fleets would need to find each other, engage each other, and ports of call (Planets/Asteroids/Space Stations) would be good targets.
Yeah, weaponry will be a bit better than cannon, but considering we keep mentioning mass-drivers and planetary bombardment
If I had to guess, I'd bet they had a problem meeting demand in 2007-2009 after their reputation (and the market for flat screens) grew (starting in 1996), and probably outstripped their production capacity, so they went for quick/cheap components?
Which suffered higher failure rates?
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.
