Is it me, or does NASA seem scared to get the answer to the question of is/was there life on Mars?
yes, it's you. they put a f'ing car full of sensors and tools on mars. has anyone else even come close to that?
Hell, why not a scanning electron microscope?
cost, weight, fragility?
Nora Noffke, a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Virginia...
NASA didn't release anything.
Each cell divided from your original ovum/sperm combination.
a zygote does not form from the division of a sperm or an egg cell. the sperm and the egg come together to create a new cell. that cell is not millions of years old.
but people are fixated on the idea of AI being a warlike species
if you are a life form that evolved in competition to other life forms, what's the safest thing to do when you encounter another life form? the course of action that's going to give you the highest chance of success is to exterminate any and all competition.
Our sun will probably burn out before we get a message from another galaxy.
that strikes me as incredibly naive considering what the human race has accomplished in around 5000k years of organized civilization, and what we've accomplished in the last 50 years of our technological revolution.
i suggest you try out that methodology then get back to me.
"office, i didn't notice i was going 85mph in a 45mph. i realize now i was, sorry."
"officer, i don't know anything about this meth in my backpack. i'll throw it out as soon as i get home. i promise."
"officer, i thought this was my house and my laptop, i realize now i'm in the wrong house."
if the cop was dumb enough to fall for that once, how many more times do you think it'd work on them?
The easy solution is to make highrise apartment and office buildings illegal through zoning. Grand father existing structures of course... but when new construction happens, make it clear that it cannot exceed a certain height. Do that and the density is capped. And if you keep the density capped then you won't need to build subway systems etc to handle over development.
that's absolutely the WRONG thing to do. transit only works in densely packed cities / communities because that's when it's cost effective. if you cap density you get urban sprawl which makes everything more expensive
"Except Local Traffic" doesn't work because to enforce, an officer would have to follow the driver from the moment they entered the neighborhood until they left,
check your license. it has your address on it.
Perhaps it's related to laying out the roads so that people that have no legitimate business in the neighborhood have no incentive to drive through it either
i have legitimate business driving on any public street i choose.
english isn't your first language then?
Lawyers do not make the law or even make a company follow the law. Lawyers determine whether the risk is worth the action.
i agree and never said differently.
You are simply deluded and believe everything people tell you, as long as they are a person of authority. Works fine until you are hit with a sexual harassment charge and have your life ruined.
all i ever said was that in at-will states, an employer can terminate their relationship with an employee at any time, without any reason. that's so obvious my only conclusion is that you are 12 years old and have never been employed and don't speak with your parents much.
i realize that the imaginary conversation you are having with me is much more complex, but you'll also have to imagine my responses from now on since i'm only able to converse with you in the realm of reality.
Oh, like the fact that you have no idea if he even had a contract?
in the face of a lack of information, the right thing to do is go on what you do know and fill in the rest with common sense
How about the fact that he could not be "fired" because he was not employed as a professor so this removal seems to be purely vindictive?
the fact that he wasn't employed makes it much simpler. do you really think that a private organization isn't allowed legally to terminate it's relationship with an individual that it doesn't even employ?!?
At will employment laws vary from State to State
yes well we're talking about Massachusetts, so no need to speculate on what might be the case in other states eh?
The professor may or not have a contract that negates this theory.
also, he may or may not have magical powers that allow him to set his enemies on fire. how about focusing on the facts we know?
Further, even with the "right to work" laws Companies can not stomp on a persons rights under the Law of the Land (US Constitution) without repercussion.
terminating an employee doesn't equate to "stomping on their rights". see below.
Can an employee be fired for no reason? , Archived from Boston Globe, 2005
"Although it seems almost impossible to believe, employers in Massachusetts, or in any other employee-at-will state, can fire any employee at any time for any reason — or even for no reason at all. An employer can terminate any employee, with or without notice."
http://www.mass.gov/courts/cas...
now are we done?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
are we done now?
A company can not take legal action against an employee or person based solely on accusation or allegation
MIT didn't take legal action. they just disassociated themselves from him and his work.
The purpose of the Government is to protect people's Constitutional rights. In this case, with no facts or trial MIT acted against the professors rights and should face full prosecution for their actions.
the govt isn't involved (unless they decide to prosecute criminally). it's a relationship between an employer and an employee. and as i stated, nothing needs to be proven. you might not like it, but that's how it is (in the US).
and putting all that aside, you can trust in this: MIT knows exactly what they can and cannot do. they've been here before 1000x. they have staff lawyers. trust me they are doing exactly what they have the right to do.
The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second.
