Comment Re:Rotate the frakking spacecraft (Score 1) 158
Actually, I don't think it needs to be 1G. I think even a fraction of Earth gravity would make things a lot easier...
As a general rule, the only way to build something large and complex that works is to grow it from something small and simple that works.
Which is why the Saturn V booster used in the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was built out of Legos.
-- Terry
I find you couldn't be more wrong... I don't see it feasible building Saturn V without first making: small test rockets-> V2 -> Atlas -> Titan -> Saturn V (this is not meant to be 100% accurate line, but you get the point)
America does not need to worry about taking "humanity" to the space. China is going to take americas is place, the comunists, can you believe it?
Eh, what is there to believe? Communists (CCCP / USSR) did take humanity into space...
After all, open source was created to free people from proprietary code and people telling them what they can't do.
Actually "open source" was coined as a more business friendly alternative to "free software". All free software is open source , but it can't be said other way around. As for GPL - it is not an open source license - it is free (as in freedom not price) software license. That said, I believe that BSD and LGPL have their place and purpose (libraries, standardized protocols...), just as GPL does (end user software). GPL is like democracy (as opposed to anarchy) - you are given freedom (by people who put an effort into writing free software), but that freedom stops at the point where it would take the same freedom away from others.
But not surprising. Sometimes, I think the FSF is a bit too idealistic with calling for every program to be open source and have the "essential freedoms", but in this case, they are totally in the right. I for one, am severely disappointed in my childhood's favorite company.
They are not calling for every program to be open source. That is another group. They are calling for all software to be 'free as in freedom'.
It's stupidly easy to define "republic". It means there's representation of the people in government. Nothing more, nothing less. There is no implied meaning beyond that, like "elected" representation, or "appointed" representation. Recently Egypt was a republic, Rome was a republic, the US is a republic.
Because, for example, UK has representation of people in the government, and is not a republic.
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