The competing agency FARPA is developing competitor to the LS3 technology. The name for this project is the Military Utility Logistics Engine. The stats are about the same except:
MULE has a payload of only 200lbs
MULE is quieter
MULE is capable of in situ resource utilization simplifying logistics
MULE is capable of doubling as a food source.
MULE's per unit cost is .01% of LS3 technology.

FARPA is also working on a more advanced project known as DONKEY, that will have self replicating abilities. Unfortunately this project is still in the early development stages.

When asked about the cost discrepancy between the $5,000,000,000 LS3 project vs the much more cost effective $500 MULE project, Congressmen Porkbarrel, R, MA replied: "I'm sorry I cant hear you over the sound of all this bribe money"

Here is a link to an early prototype of LS3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&gl=NZ&v=VXJZVZFRFJc

Unfortunately starvation is not a motivator for the people who most influence the global economic system. Profit is the motivator.

If your a CEO of a motorcycle company you should know something about motorcycles If your CEO of a Twinkies factory you should know something about baking.

Baitin' is what I do for entertainment too.

William Hung as sushi-k

Take the case of throwing a baseball. This is case 2 from parent

Assume that the magnitude of the drag on the ball is proportional to the square of its velocity. Also, assume that the magnitude of the gravitational force is constant. You get the following set of differential equations:

x''(t)*m=A * (x'(t)^2+y'(t)^2) * cos(theta)
y''(t)*m=A * (x'(t)^2+y'(t)^2) * sin(theta) + g * m
theta=arctan(y'(t)/x'(t))

Where:
x(t) is the horizontal position of the ball at time t
x'(t) is the horizontal velocity of the ball
x''(t) is the acceleration
y(t) is the vertical position of the ball
(x'(t)^2+y'(t)^2) is the square of the velocity
theta is the angle of travel above the horizontal
m, A and g are constant over time*

*
A=-1/2*drag coefficient*cross sectional area of ball*air density
m is the mass of the ball
g is acceleration due to gravity

"We don't have mistakes here, we just have happy accidents."-Bob Ross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mA4HYTO790

They should at least have a graph that shows the mass distribution from there model compared to a mass distribution from the luminosity distribution.

The paper linked in the summary is essentially a rehash of this written in 2008:
http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/carati/pdf/atenemissing.pdf
This article essentially states that the far field gravitational effects of distant galaxies are not negligible. This is the essential meat of the idea.

From the article linked in the summary:
"In the literature, there are several papers which illustrate different ways in which the distribution of matter can be estimated, starting for example from the measured distribution of luminosity of the galaxies. We take instead the simpler path which consists in assuming a functional form for [local gravitational potential], with a minimal number of parameters and then trying to determine these parameters by a best fit with the observed rotation curves."

This part really bugs me. Why does the author completely ignore the luminosity distribution of the test galaxies. At the very least this means that all the pretty graphs you see when scrolling through the pdf are misleading.

Thank you, we need more people like you in this country. We need to stop using this "job creators" rhetoric that was handed down to us by some PR goons working on K street. The job creators are the same people who sit on there huge sums of capital and refuse to spend it. We should start using the term the job destroyers.

1. None of the employment problems that you mention occurred until Euro-zone trade liberalization moved jobs overseas. In other words the job loss was caused by free market policies not by socialism. 2. You did not account for the real unemployment rate witch under-reports employment in Europe and over-reports it in the us. The massive prison population alone in the us would account for a 2% increase in our unemployment rate if they were counted as unemployed. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Entrepreneurial-Mind/2011/1109/The-real-unemployment-rate-and-Europe-s-underground-economy 3. You specifically neglected to mention countries where socialist protectionist policies cause unemployment to remain low like Norway. 4. Losing a job in any of those countries you mentioned is not nearly as bad as losing a job here because they have a functioning social contract. When you lose a job here you lose your health insurance. Also your comment specifically neglected to mention any of the other positive effects of socialism that I mentioned in my post. 5. The employment rate here is artificially low due to an excess of shitty part time and/or minimum wage jobs. 6. I think you meant I should stop smoking some elicit substance. When you say I should simply stop smoking that imply you are talking about smoking tobacco products which are usually not considered to impair mental ability.

The social contract we currently enjoy that has been slowly eroded for the past 40 years was a result of the New Deal. The New Deal was spawned by the progressive movement during the 30s. The progressive movement was largely a reaction to prevent the revolution that occurred in Russia from occurring in the US. The revolutions that occurred in Russia was a direct result of labor organizing. Regarding health care, were you aware that per capita health care costs in the US are almost double what they are in any other country. US government spending on health care is also the 2nd highest in the world per capita. So don't tell me that health care is what caused the economic problems of Europe. Yes its true that the cause of the economic problems is funding of social programs with debt. The fact is that providing healthcare does not return a profit. The solution isn't to remove social programs, it is to increase taxes on the rich.

If we allow market forces to dictate all our economic policies there is a race to the bottom where workers earn sustenance wages. Your devotion to free market principles has taken on a religious zeal. If you want to see the end game of capitalism, move to Colombia. The way to fight market forces is protective tariffs, higher minimum wage, government job creation financed by higher top marginal tax rates, and a social safety net.

"It is not easy, but who said it should be?"

I say It should be.
You might call me a whiner and complainer. I call myself someone with dignity and self respect.

This is why America is screwed. This country [usa] is filled with simpletons like parent that have no self respect. They say at least its not as bad as the third world shitholes. Well I say it could be a lot better too. We could have a country with universal healthcare, more vacation time, more job security and higher employment rate. This isn't some utopian ideal It happens in the socialist countries of Europe.

For Christ sake we put a man on the moon and the only point of pride you hear is: "[At least] I'm not melting solder off trashed PCBs in China."

The reason that your not melting solder in a shanty town is not because of the grace of the business elites allowed it to be so. It is because in the past labor organized and demanded better working conditions, weekends and an 8 hour work day.