The point the poster made, which I think is legitimate, is that even a very small earthquake could probably be catastrophic for a collider's integrity and alignment.

I was working in the video game development industry for a number of years and in that time, I never once saw women being treated an differently than men.. although I have heard stories of it happening at other places. i think it depends, therefore, on the types of people that a particular game studio might tend to employ.

It might have been funny if they hadn't used the specific terminology, thereby playing on the ambiguity of the term.

That'd be a logic inverter, while they specifially say power inverter.

But the terminology that they used was not "fired", it was "laid off". There is a difference.

I mean, if they were laid off, then that tends to mean that they *can't* be hired back on... at least not immediately. My understanding is that "laid off" means that the person is being let go because there isn't enough work to justify paying them, so how could they even *think* of hiring back anyone?

Zero wasn't thought of until a few centuries BCE... that doesn't mean it isn't less fundamental than multiplication, which was thought of long before it.

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To suggest that we, ill adapted to space as we are, ought to go physically into space instead of sending a machine is absurd

... which suggests that we should not be sending human beings into space merely because we are ill-adapted to do so.

Of course, the same argument could be made for, as a previous poster had said... flight. Obviously human beings can't fly no matter how hard they flap their arms, but that's no reason to not get into an aircraft. And nobody disputes that it's equally obvious that space is an extraordinarily harsh environment that no human being could hope to survive in for any more than a brief instant... but if the argument that we shouldn't let the fact that we must use machines to achieve something keep us from doing it, then why the heck should human beings be kept from going into space merely because we can't survive there without sophisticated life support?

It's not embarrassing to apply machines as all.... as you say,

I would like to fly to New York...

Or....

I would like to travel into space.

The fact that we are ill adapted to survive in space should be no more of a justification that we shouldn't go there than the fact that we are unable to fly without machines should be a justification to never get into an aircraft.

Really.... did I have to explain this twice?

Why did the plane deviated over 500km from its usual path? Obviously the ATC forced them to so otherwise they wouldn't be that fucking stupid and fly over a known war zone.

MH17 was also requested by Kiev to drop from 35000 ft to 33000 ft right before it got hit.

If, as you say, Kiev had confiscated the ATC record, then how on earth could you, or whoever you heard it from, have known any of that?

But of course... conspiracy theories are so much more interesting than reality, I can't fault people for wanting to believe them.

It's my understanding that all statements about the trajectory are deductive based on post-attack evidence. If they had actually identified the trajectory of the missile from a satellite, they would also easily know which side of the Russia/Ukraine border it originated on... which they do not.

Why would soldiers waste expensive missiles for some irrelevant passenger plane?

Why, indeed... and part of the reason why I don't think that this was done as any official act by either nation.

Why would be there a plane over a warzone in the first place?

Apparently, before takeoff, the aircraft was explicitly told that the route was safe to fly over.

When you perform a terrorist act you tell that YOU did it in order to intimidate. You don't deny you did it.

I think that would depend on whether or not the uncertainty and the slinging of accusations from all sides better serves their interest than the fear it might generate if they knew who did it. I strongly suspect that the actual perpetrators are sitting back and watching the fireworks right now... hoping it will eventually escalate to the point that they'll be too busy fighting eachother to notice what the group is *really* up to.

And what makes you think that organizations acting independently of the government wouldn't have that kind of money?

The biggest argument against the notion that it was government sanctioned is that Russia wouldn't have anything to gain from shooting down a civilian plane in Ukraine airspace and the Ukraine government doesn't have that kind of hardware in the first place.

That, I think, was the poster's point.... that it is just as absurd as suggesting that we should not go into space merely because of how ill-adapted we are to it.

Actually, I suspect that neither side knows the truth. Or at least neither government does. This strikes me as an act of somebody or some organization that was acting entirely independently of government authority or sanction (and most likely used illegally purchased munitions to achieve it).