Comment Re:Codeword (Score 1) 479
So true, so true. That's a funny bit...you're lucky you aren't going to lose any karma 'cause...it's true, so true.
So true, so true. That's a funny bit...you're lucky you aren't going to lose any karma 'cause...it's true, so true.
Instead of spending $68 Billion on a single high speed rail line between 2 cities that are already linked by several adequate transportation options, maybe we should use a fraction of that money for water projects? Moving water to where people live is a simple engineering problem. Why not solve it instead of being a victim of the weather?
Yea to cancelling SuperTrain(tm), Nay to moving water around is simple.
One could say that moving people around is a simple engineering problem.
Having said that, I do understand your sentiment.
The Central Valley and other broad expanses in Ca. used to be bottoms of seafloors. This means it is *outstanding* land for farming, and a valuable national resource. One of the reasons that Ca. is the 8th largest economy in the world.
Cheap water is indeed subsidizing low food prices for the world. That will be changing, of course. I don't expect that we will be "coming over and taking it from" you, we will be paying market prices. At some point people with excess water will be happy to sell it to Ca.
Hopefully it won't happen so quickly as to cripple the 8th largest economy in the world. That might not be good for anybody.
Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it.
"Dogs flew spaceships!
The Aztecs invented the vacation!
Men and women are the same sex!
Our forefathers took drugs!
Your brain is not the boss!
Yes! That's right! Everything you know is wrong!"
The bias is actually very visible in the article with the Freudian slip of "send Russians money" instead of "paying Russians for services rendered" which is the actual case.
It's pretty rare for fanboy crowd to slip that badly though. Usually it's at least masked as a more reasonable argument.
Yeah, they forgot the "at gunpoint" whenever talking about govt. (taxpayer) bucks.
Why don't we do world peace?
We do. It's all the malcontents out there that won't go with the program.
"We do these things, and the other things, not because they're easy, but because they're hard!"
An RTOS is an obvious advantage. I wonder what the disadvantages of it were, as I assume they would have considered this. Expense? Resources? Experience? All of the above?
Adding more people to a project does not necessarily increase the chances for success. And, since the Planetary Society has a lot of educational outreach, I'm guessing that they included a lot of relative novices that learned a *hell* of a lot from the successes, but even more from the failures.
Anyways, I include this Planetary Society blurb because I believe this is one of the pathways to the solar system.
"Through this proof-of-concept mission, we will use CubeSats to open new paths beyond Earth and, one day, potentially to other planets with an inexpensive, inexhaustible means of propulsion: photons, solar energy in its purest form."
It is/was like a normal corporate or any other project then?
No. It wasn't.
Sometimes one needs Real Engineering(tm). This is an engineering test. To get to the point where Real Science(c) can get done.
The reason we use government funding to incentivize things is because we as a public want people to do/build/invent/fix those things and are willing to pay for that to happen.
That's what a market does...
Incorrect.
...we need to defend science and its applications from the yahoos out there.
And the googles.
sr
“My Eyes! The googles do nothing!”
Glad I didn't have coffee in my mouth when I read this.
I did (wipes screen).
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
