Comment more proof we've lost the war on drugs (Score 1) 137
Obviously we've abjectly failed in stopping the flow of cocaine to Hollywood.
Victimless crime, you say?
Victimless crime, you say?
Comment Wilfred White -- WW, geddit? (Score 1) 549
I think Musk just jumped the shark.
PHEH.
When Dear Leader Futarman jumps the shark, you can be sure there will be a motorcycle, and a shark, involved.
At least I hope he can do better than holing up in a casino for years and allowing his company to be used as a front by the CIA to steal a sunken Soviet submarine.
Actually, come to think about it, THAT's pretty rad.
Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity 549
An anonymous reader writes: Elon Musk's ambitions for SpaceX keep getting bigger. First he wanted to make the trip to Mars affordable, then he wanted to establish a city-sized colony, and now he's got his eye on the future of humanity. Musk says we need a million people on Mars to form a "sustainable, genetically diverse civilization" that can survive as humanity's insurance policy. He continued, "Even at a million, you're really assuming an incredible amount of productivity per person, because you would need to recreate the entire industrial base on Mars. You would need to mine and refine all of these different materials, in a much more difficult environment than Earth. There would be no trees growing. There would be no oxygen or nitrogen that are just there. No oil." How fast could we do it? Within a century, once the spacecraft reusability problem is solved. "Excluding organic growth, if you could take 100 people at a time, you would need 10,000 trips to get to a million people. But you would also need a lot of cargo to support those people. In fact, your cargo to person ratio is going to be quite high. It would probably be 10 cargo trips for every human trip, so more like 100,000 trips. And we're talking 100,000 trips of a giant spaceship."
Comment skating around a pop cultural singularity here (Score 1) 269
OCP CPU-001 only has limited space for it's directive database. You clutter it up with too many rules and it bogs down and requires a hard reset. Hence we now limit it to only the three most critical rules.
There is no rule six.
There is no rule six.
Comment AWWWW SHEET, I think I've been HACK#ED! (Score 4, Funny) 174
Where's this #%)&@@^ U2 album come from?!
I never asked for this...
I never asked for this...
Comment The THREE shells: (Score 4, Funny) 269
- 1. Windows may not injure a member of the Microsoft board or, through inaction, allow a member of the Microsoft board to come to harm.
- 2. Windows must obey the orders given to it by the NSA, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- 3. Windows must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
- 3. CLASSIFIED
Comment typical /. Elon's Musk worship: (Score 1) 267
There goes Ellsworth Toohey ragging on Howard Roarke again. What a surprise!
Comment Re:What about LEGO? LEGO vs. Sandbox! Fight! (Score 2) 37
Military Grade LEGO
They' called caltrops.
Of course, if we're buying them on a military contract, they cost 20x as much as the civilian version.
Comment kids these days... (Score 2) 329
never had problems like this with CCP.
Comment protecting Auntie Beeb's pie... (Score 2) 302
Anglicize (Andy Taylor + Barney Fife) = Andy Fyfe ?
Except more like the guy that insisted on flipping the switch to shutdown the illegal phantasm containment system in Ghostbusters.
Except more like the guy that insisted on flipping the switch to shutdown the illegal phantasm containment system in Ghostbusters.
NASA Expands Commercial Space Program 24
An anonymous reader writes: Just 10 days after NASA awarded multi-billion-dollar contracts to SpaceX and Boeing for future manned rocket launches, the agency announced today it is expanding its commercial space program to include contracts for delivery missions to the International Space Station. "Under the Commercial Resupply Services 2 RFP, NASA intends to award contracts with one or more companies for six or more flights per contract. As with current resupply flights, these missions would launch from U.S. spaceports, and the contracted services would include logistical and research cargo delivery and return to and from the space station through fiscal year 2020, with the option to purchase additional launches through 2024."
Comment desalinization (Score 2) 169
If they have excess unused capacity, they should use it to desalinate seawater, turn Austrailailaila into a garden of eden.
Comment talk about a perfect set-up! (Score 1) 71
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as
"a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man."
I'll leave the ultimate zinger for somebody else...
Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon 197
An anonymous reader writes: Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has announced it intends to bring humans to the Moon by roughly 2030. Russia plans a full-scale exploration of the Moon's surface. Agency head Oleg Ostapenko said that by the end of the next decade, "based on the results of lunar surface exploration by unmanned space probes, we will designate [the] most promising places for lunar expeditions and lunar bases.
Comment Think Bent? (Score 2) 421
Apple : Get Bent
