Get root because anything else is like trying to plug a leaky dam with a band-aid.
Oh sure, the astroturfers will now come out of the woodwork to claim "buy product u$ele$$, it'll make unicorn farts!"
But those are just bogus claims because you cannot defend a box properly if you are not its administrator.
Of course, it's not for the faint of heart (newb) though
Why can't they report it by saying "the star spewed out x% of it's mass" instead of the meaningless "enough material to make a thousand earths"
I mean I appreciate that it lost a lot of material, but I'm more interested in knowing how much that material represents to the star than knowing how may 'earths' I could make out of it.
I understand what you're saying but I was pointing out how for true debate to happen, both (or many) sides have to be represented fairly.
For example, you'd want someone deeply religious to represent the religious-interests and someone deeply scientific and rational to represent science-interests when debates occur.
When you stack the deck like this, it makes a mockery of the whole process.
No use calling it a democracy anymore, it's a mockery of what a democracy should be.
In a true democracy, you actually have people representing different sides of issues. This is clearly now no longer the case.
This is such an obvious idea that it isn't right that it should be patentable. There are only a few ways of slowing an orbiting object down so that it de-orbits. The way nature does it is by putting gas in the way, called the atmosphere.
Stop bringing common-sense into this, dammit!
The U.S. has been relying on a Russian diesel icebreaker to deliver supplies to Antarctica due to our own shrinking fleet of the cold-water, diesel-fueled vessels."
cold water causes shrinkage
I wish they'd be replaced by Thunderdome. Two CEOs enter, one CEO leaves!
I'd buy tickets to that
I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky