Hopefully this is a sign the space race is back on. Far more to do out there, then to squabble back here with, who can destroy the world the most number of times with their military, a real dead end and I mean dead end. Something is needed to drive humanity, to focus it's efforts and who is the greediest and most selfish or who can kill the most, are insanely, stupendously pointless and self destructive of society.

Making use of the resources of the solar system, is not about bringing stuff back to earth, it is about humanity expanding it's horizons further out. The difference between dwelling upon your genitals (hollywood et al) or dwelling upon your mind (NASA et al).

Especially in light of this particular comment on a forum https://www.atomicorp.com/foru.... Nothing new here at all.

Upfront cost? Most engines are charging percentages of revenue which means they can quite readily chew up 100% of the profits ie if your margins are only 10%, then 5% of revenue means they will be demanding 50% of your profits. How can programmers be so bad at math. If anything the crytek models looks suspiciously cheap. Can a programming house with 100 programmers get one subscription or do they need 100. How far out into the future will the subscription and its conditions hold, ie at least 3 years and preferably ten years but the customer can drop it at any time.

The current percentage of revenue model is nuts and should only be around .1% not 5%. Imagine M$ bringing in that model on spread sheet software, we demand 5% of your revenue if you want to use our software.

Kind of late for that mate, it is already happening and unless you intend to pass on shortly you will be a part of it getting much worse, good luck, you'll need it in America. Emigrate early, rather than late because whilst the asshats that caused it all the 1%, most certainly will make sure they can leave with a substantive portion of their wealth intact, their victims the 99% not so much. Collapsing Empire's trying to force the continuance of their waning dominance, inevitably become self destructive. The US is becoming such a laughable example of this it will simply be easier to refer to them as characters out of star wars, the evil empire, the president as Emperor and his Darth as vice president and futile and corrupt congress and senate and of course the US military, the storm troopers, "the tighter you squeeze the more they will slip through you fingers".

'ER' Dude you are electing a representative president that is meant to implement and administer the laws provide by the senate and the congress, not fucking god. What the fuck are you talking about except typical PR=B$ hyperbole ad hominem attacks. Yeah sure, a bunch of very corrupt rich exploiting the poor laws need to change in order to rebuild the core, the middle class, but all the president can do is implement the policies provided and either do that well or do it incompetently or do it some what competently but extremely poorly because actions where based upon very unsound and corrupted information designed not to provide solutions but feed insatiable vested interests (corrupt advisers produce corrupted outcomes).

Easiest hypothesis to explain the reaction, a teeny tiny undiscovered particle, likely it would explain a lot of other things as well. So the real question is, could a particle be small enough that it is impossible to directly observe outside of it's interactions with other particles. It is there because we can observe the outcomes of interactions but it is not there because it is simply too small to directly observe. Those interactions would likely be indirect field actions rather than direct actions. The measure of the engine less likely to be concentrated power output but how large an interaction the engine can produce, an engine that operates more outside of itself rather than within itself.

How about this reference http://www.apa.org/pubs/info/r..., yet they still train psychologists to work in marketing targeting children. Did the American Psychological Association, play with the torturers and in the most sick fashion imaginable the victims? Was there a buck in it? You betcha, it's the American way, your American dream and fuck their nightmares.

So which is worse damaging the psychology of children to sell products or participating in the psychological torture of suspected terrorists, pretty fucking much, equally evil. Unless of course those suspected terrorist are also minors, yes, the US military managed to achieve that level of evil, with the aid of professional psychologists. Well, at least Darth Cheney managed to truly earn his spot in history and so did Uncle Tom Obama for failing to prosecute.

The catch with the whole idea is they are just forecasts based upon limited range of scientific theories and do not take into account everything that could happen. For example major steps could be taken to reduce solar inputs, only to be followed by a significant impact that throws a lot of dust into the atmosphere and now the opposite is the problem. A major solar flare could also cause significant environmental impact, that could again compound any active attempts at cooling the atmosphere.

The only sound method of control is to stop doing things that could cause problems, rather than take risky actions that could be negated or have far more impact than expected because of unexpected climatological inputs, even a major volcanoes could cause severe problems if it occurs in conjunction with major attempts at active cooling of the planet.

Scientific theories explain would should happen under a very set specific range of circumstances and are not a crystal ball of what will happen at some point in the future taking into account, everything that could happen to the sun, earth's geology and all possible astronomical events. So the idea is to use scientific theories to reduce risks on this planet and not to increase them.

Hard to tell if it was an attack, perhaps the unnamed reviewer was just in a position to get closer to one of the scientists mentioned and wanted to be asked to review the paper as an opportunity for relations. With them of course not knowing who wrote the crappy review.

Now that is exactly why unions where created and why corporates hired thugs to murder union leaders and bought off politicians sent the national guard to physically abuse and even kill strikers. So it was before, so it will be again and those idiot screaming toddlers who want more, more, more, will instead find prison more accommodating to their corrupt life style. With four decades of continuous propaganda attacks by main stream media, unions were weakened but with the internet they are resurrecting as strong as ever. No IT unions, IT workers will be screwed over, IT Unions and abuse corporations and abusive corporate executives will be the ones facing real criminal penalties. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... (Vive La Guillotine!).

The EU could drop the US, pick up other like minded countries around the world and create a more capable union, creating a more effective third pole to global politics. It should be obvious to everyone by now that the US doesn't want allies it just demands vassal states that will obey corporate edicts coming out of the US. Russia went though it's own self destructive imperialistic stage and isn't much of a threat at the moment. Asia is really much more diverse than being defined by generalised appearance characteristics and there is no real union possible along those lines, more an independent, mutually supportive association, with India, China and Japan creating separate poles within the Asian political pole.

The EU really needs to pick up members that will make it independent from both the US and Russia and avoid disruptive members that are a burden rather than a benefit ie Ukraine (it should be pretty obvious by now Russia didn't lose the Ukraine they dumped it, what a chaotic debt bomb, US spent 5 billion to pick up 100 billion of debt). Russia is big enough to pretty much do it's own thing on it's own. Then we can see how the five politics poles work together (fifth being the associated association).

My preferred social media site is the whole of the internet. What Google or anyone else do, is simply make that more 'PRIVATELY' manageable. The other thing is of course portal sites, one site where you can cluster things you are most likely to refer to upon a regular basis. Combine those two things with an emphasis on private off line access and separate out public user name from private name because psychopaths and trolls all over the internet. Toss in some idle credit earning opportunities where the earned credits can be spent on provided services and you are pretty much done.

New thing for social media. Open source government policy writing, come up with ideas and write legislative policy to implement those ideas in various jurisdictions and vote on policies and contributions to those policies (let's all become a little more involved). Social, open, content creation, creating content specifically for the public domain.

The most important question, why would anyone be stupid enough to think running a government like a business works. In small business under capitalism, only 1 in 10 succeed, by far the majority go bankrupt 90%. So what, try out new government services only to have the majority fail is somehow sound. That some how trial and error are preferable to careful but admittedly expensive research. Perhaps government needs to set up multiple branches of the same service so they can compete and one wins while the rest go bankrupt. So why exactly, not empty PR=B$ platitudes but actually data, is government run like a for profit business better, especially as a monopoly (taking into account how bad private monopolies have proven to be over the centuries).

Reality is space is a harsh place and with out an atmosphere to burn up large number of veyr high velocity bits of rock, anything you put into space unless it is heavily armoured, stands a pretty good chance of being struck. Now I have heard absolute volumes of crap about how good private enterprises is (even in the face of history and the millions of private enterprises that have gone bankrupt, the core principle of private enterprise the losers must be destroyed otherwise you can not have winners) but some how being private makes the equipment immune to meteoroid impacts is a new one, is this some capitalism God worship thing?

The whole intent is pretty straight forward. They want all of the data public, so that it can be challenged in court, for years, prior to any changes. They will back this up with straight up junk science, not to defeat the real science but simply to bog it down in court. So one legislative change might be based upon hundreds of reports, they will simply cherry pick one report that can most readily be challenged, produce a counter junk science report and then block the legislative change until it is all resolved in court.

Mind you the stupidity of this is mind boggling, they are basically going to crap all over there own nest, why, because they are immune to pollution and toxins, nope, just stupidly greedy.