Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 213
Oh look! A radionuclide! Run Away! Run Away!
Oh look! A radionuclide! Run Away! Run Away!
Exactly how long do you want You Tube videos to be anyway?
Why do you hate America?
Pretty much this.
TL;DR, careful what you ask for, you might get it and peaceful conflict resolution always beats the alternative.
Well, it does say "Science Blog - Straight from the Source". So what were you expecting?
And, like everyone else, I can't make heads or tails out of it either, but at least your source has a cool picture.
No, this is just Microsoft's Marketing Move of The Month. They change marketing strategies faster than Miley Cyrus changes clothes.
Human beings are flawed, even scientists. People pursue agendas and that which will make them both money and garner attention. The problem is that group think impacts scientists every bit as much as any other profession. The question is, how can we verify science when most of the population don't even understand it? Much like politicians and covert policy, the public has to trust experts in their fields. With so little oversight what can we do?
Science is, eventually, self correcting. It may take months (in this case), decades (cf, Plate Tectonics) or hundreds of years (the nonsense spouted by Pliny and Aristotle). There are probably large swaths of what we take for scientific understanding that are still wrong (or not even wrong). But there is a self correcting mechanism. In this, Science is rather unique among human endeavors.
You can imagine lots of things (and please, keep it to yourself). Whether or not you would be correct is another thing.
No, you're not correct in this instance. It's complicated
OK folks, you heard it here first.
Slashdot. Ahead of everybody, all of the time.
Just ask us.
Look up Delta V and get back to us with your handy 'little' spacecraft.
They were purposely not invited. Then they were sort of not invited (Read the TFA, it's weird). Now they've invited everyone else to join their party.
If it's your party, you get to decide on the decorations and the cuisine.
These are SPORTS ANNOUNCERS! People who hold down the left-hand side of the bell-curve for any "dim" metaphor you can try to apply.
Oh please. We have weather forecasters and politicians to deal with. A Sports Announcer is going to be like a 3V LED hooked up to house mains compared to those two.
It's dark, silly.
Hey Bozo: Check out this Boeing Bad Boy.
It's everything the Shuttle should have been (second time's a charm). They know how to build things.
So does SpaceX. Unfortunately, the winner will likely be the one with the most political clout (YoYoDyne), but engineering wise, they both are good designs and both companies can execute.
The best we can hope for is that SpaceX gets enough tossed at them to keep going.
That's actually a silly argument. We don't have to get off this rock. We could learn how to play nice with this very comfortable spaceship that just popped up out of nowhere. Even if we want to get off this rock, we don't have to do it just now. We could use the money for more important things or just spend less.
No, the real reason to go into space (and the ocean, don't forget the ocean) is because it's cool. The rest is just filler for a grant proposal.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. -- Mickey Mouse
