Comment Re:Scaremongering. (Score 1) 156
Exactly.
Exactly.
They evaporate first before eating the entire universe.
Quite polite of them, I must say.
Maintenance on such a bridge will be kinda madness. Financially, as well.
Not everyone is good at it and still, other things need to be done.
Where are our promised "sharks with frikken' lasers"?
The people demand answers!
The past 4 times I was in Africa, I'd just buy a Nokia phone, and local number and I'd be able to roam and talk without an issue.
With a 3G modem, I even transferred funds from one account to another in the middle of the Kalahari.
They made great low cost and perfectly functional phones.
Why? Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere. Until this is remediated, any atmosphere will be whisked away by the solar winds.
Venus has a magnetosphere. We could and should start not terraforming Venus, but "atmosphere-ing" Venus so that it can then be terraformed. Develop bacteria that live in the Venusian extremes, eat sulfuric acid and output fixed sulfur and H2O. Let the process run. We can then handle the rest.
Mine is plaid.
It works pretty wall for reptiles, birds and butterflies.
Just think, now you can jump high enough to break your own legs when you fall!
Without a magnetosphere to hold the atmosphere on the planet, the sun's solar wind will keep stripping mars's atmosphere off the planet.
Quad core i7 MacBook Pro 17" and Thunderbolt display with 16 GB of RAM, a 1TB HD and a 480 GB SSD running Mac OS 10.6.8
Why? I like the 17 inch screen and 1920 x 1200 resolution on the 17" screen and I HATE the UI of all the Mac OSes after 10.6.8.
Quad core i5 iMac 27" with 16 GB of RAM, internal 1TB HD and 16 TB external storage on Firewire 800
Why? I like the 27 inch screen and 2560 x 1440 resolution on the 27" screen and I HATE the UI of all the Mac OSes after 10.6.8.
I develop iOS applications professionally, and I can switch into a VM if needed or use my work laptop.
This minimalist & heavily animated OS approach thanks to Jony Ive needs to die in a fire.
> it's* not about
it's = it is
Why are you so fat?
> BTW why would one experience any pain if one knows that one is dying?
Did you forget the phrase, "want to", in your question above?
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."