Touching the dead can give you Ebola? That seems like an extremely easy to transmit disease. I'm surprised a worldwide Ebola apocalypse hasn't occurred already.
Or by "touching the dead" do you mean people drinking the dead man's embalming fluids?
Human psychology is extremely relevant here.
We could build a self-sustaining underground colony on Earth that's powered by nuclear reactors and which grows its own food hydroponically. It could probably survive a dinosaur-killer asteroid event. And as you mentioned, it would cost way less than a Mars colony.
But think about it. Who the hell wants to live in an underground colony on Earth, permanently? You're not gonna get many volunteers. And I guarantee *nobody* is going to fund it. Living underground in Kansas has zero glamour. Like it or not, humans love exploring new places and thanks to sci-fi, Mars has a tremendous romantic value.
And that's just the "human race survival contingency" aspect. In the long term (centuries), Mars has so much more to offer than Kansas underground. Think of the resources to be discovered, science to be done. It's a whole new world!
Because there is no reason to colonize Antarctica. It has all the negatives without any of the positives.
Mars has some huge positives, namely the fact that it's not Earth. Think of it as an offsite backup for the human race.
Colonizing Antarctica would be like making a backup of your computer on a USB stick and then leaving it plugged in.
If anything, the market has said overwhelmingly that battery life doesn't matter a whit
True only if there's enough battery life to last between the nightly charging. A smartphone with 2 hour battery life, do you think it will sell?
But beyond that, yeah I think won't matter. Like a 20 hour battery life won't be much of a selling point over a 15 hour one. Unless a miracle quantum battery comes out that lasts a week between recharging.
No, the main value of G+ was that Google was losing social networking to Facebook big time and Sergei Brin decided Google cannot be left behind. So they tried to leverage gmail and youtube and all their other services into forcing you to make a G+ account to give it a big boost. (Google could already track you every way to Sunday before G+ was ever dreamed up)
The fact that they're not forcing G+ on you anymore means that after 5 years of trying, they gave up trying to beat Facebook and decided not to piss off their core users any further.
Wow, that is the most insightful thing I've read on Slashdot in years!
The primary nuclear deterrence of United States is the ballistic missile submarine fleet anyways.
Those things are definitely not sitting around decaying from neglect.
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Or for those who want to keep working and be productive:
If you are a liberal, do volunteer work saving lives in Ebola-infested areas or some other place with a humanitarian crisis in Africa or Middle East.
If you are a Republican, volunteer for an army tour of duty in Afghanistan or Iraq or Syria. Yes being old could be a problem. However those powered exoskeletons could make you strong.
Their website is giving me a WordPress Error page after a lengthy timeout:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Lost connection to MySQL server at 'waiting for initial communication packet', system error: 95 in
Before bringing the "internet to every corner of the world", they need to bring a better database to their Wordpress.
Do you realize how big the hypersonic glider would have to be to seat 140 people? (Hint: Boeing 737 doesn't even seat 140 people)
Your weight estimates could be correct but there is no way you're gonna fit a 140-seat glider in the Falcon 9 fairings.
Anyways 5 minute weightless suborbital flight is so 1961. I would just make a stretched version of Dragon that seats 20 people (no cargo) and send them into orbit for $50k each.
It's a Chinese company located in China, and most of its business and customers are in China. So why is it doing its IPO on the US stock market?
Shouldn't NYSE/Nazdaq disallow this? SEC and FTC have no jurisdiction in China or anywhere else outside the USA. If a chinese company listed on NYSE did fraudulent accounting or whatever, SEC can't do jack shit about it.
The whole thing seems like a clever scheme by Chinese companies and Goldman Sachs to sucker money out of U.S. investors.
you guys need to get the word out there. Seriously. Nobody knows you exist.
Start by submitting a slashdot article. Slashdotters HATE Microsoft. Tell them an open source version of Minecraft exists, and you will get favorable replies.
Nah, it wouldn't be cool to go against the wishes of the original authors. They put a lot of work into it. If you're gonna leech off their code then naming your project something other than Truecrypt is the least you can do.
I suggest RealCrypt.
haha yeah, that's the one thing we'll miss if Russia goes offline.
Nothing happens.
