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Comment Re:Call it a "Driving Plane" not a "Flying Car" (Score 1) 203

Again, it will not serve much purpose until people are allowed to take off and land on roads. It is not just possible it is feasible for competent pilots. I have seen crop-dusters do it successfully since this old man was a little kid. Notice I said competent pilots, not someone with a DUI record as long as your arm. There would only be certain roads that could be used. They would have to be straight and flat and unoccupied. Many roads would fit that bill and many sections of interstate would be perfect.

Comment Re:Not enough STEM workers, obviously (Score 1) 348

H1-B visas are for giving giant corporations even cheaper labor than they have now. We have plenty of networkers and programmers. We don't have a bunch that will work for $25,000 a year though. So you import workers into an economy that is now at the height of a recession with over 90,000,000 people unemployed with the claim that they can't find anyone to work for them. That is the brilliance of our government in action.

Comment Re: Stop using tax dollars (Score 1) 348

No, it is a real 'research' project just like studying cow farts and burps. Government money is given away in many cases without strings. They gave a guy $400,000 once to gauge how people react to stupid looking art sculptures. The list is as endless as our $17,000,000,000,000 debt.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 348

Tell the people that were convinced otherwise that we are experiencing record breaking cold and snow in the U.S. (after what they told us it was 40 + years of warming) and its not even fall yet. When you say it let them know that reality is where real world data should be measured, not a computer program. Real world data (not the SIMS they programmed themselves) should register at some level regardless of their own brainwashing. Also, tell them that computer simulations are not reality. Reality is what should matter to real science.

Comment Re: Easy solution (Score 1) 348

True believers are the only ones allowed to do any government 'research' into AGW. No questions about its validity are entertained. When anyone points out that we have record breaking cold they won't say "thats incorrect". They'll say "you are not a real scientist and therefore cannot read a thermometer". When a real scientist who has been there for years, even decades says it they'll say "you should be fired" not "where is your data" or something like that. No question about the emperor or his lack of clothes will be tolerated.

Whenever you can on rare occasion get a 'scientist' like Bill Nye to answer a question in public like that out of the blue they'll say something very unscientific like "climate never shows up in weather". Daily weather is the only way to detect climate but nevermind. You hurt a AGW true believers feelings when you ask for real world evidence or point out that 17 of the 19 climate computer models were wrong.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 348

Global warming grants specifically state in the terms that the successful grant recipient will show global warming. So they pay for a pre-conclusion. Its all fraud and its all bogus. But there is simply so much money to be made promoting this AGW myth that no one will be allowed to disagree.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 348

Record breaking cold with snow this summer right now in the U.S, and you think its hot. I challenge you to walk through 10 miles of summer snowfall barefoot and when you get to the end and tell me that its hotter than its ever been before I will believe it.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 0) 348

Yes, its already snowing in the U.S. and we have record breaking cold just like last year and its still summer. But remember, the globe is "hotter than its ever been before". I think the only reason you are brainwashed is because you do not think you can be.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 348

But but . . . but Americans think the government is their mommy and daddy. And mommy and daddy buy them free candy so what you said about government can't possibly be true. Every thing the government does over here to a liberal is magic. Free education (now more expensive and unaffordable here than anywhere else), free healthcare (see free education), free food ( most obese poor people on the planet), free housing (ghetto), free pot to the poor (what could go wrong there?).

Its fun to pretend.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 348

Virtually all of the 'ground breaking' work in physics such as the discovery of the Higgs boson has led to absolutely nothing of practical real world value and won't lead to anything either. Physicists spend years, sometimes decades chasing dark matter (fairy dust), get an award for it and retire. I don't know why they can't be called upon to do something practical like find an inexpensive method to produce aero-gel. That would get rid of a tremendous amount of poverty, solve most of our energy problems and revolutionize the world. But no, its just too fun going to seminars and debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 348

Goldwater was a nitwit. His advice meant nothing, he failed at nearly everything he did in public and the religious folks are the only ones in America who kept the Soviet Union from sticking a communist bayonet up his butt.

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