Just for the record, the "Obamaphone" program has a name. It's called the "Lifeline Assistance Program" and was started in the 1980s by...Ronald Reagan. It has nothing to do with Obama.
https://www.fcc.gov/guides/lif...
I'm all for those guv'mint subsidized chastity belts.
Yeah, but the trick is figuring out a way to get the Duggars to wear them.
When people talk about "we haven't returned to the moon" [bfy.tw], it refers to the end of the Apollo program.
So, the trips we've made to the moon SINCE the Apollo program (the most recent was in 2013), just don't count? Why is that?
Further, you apparently posted that "Let Me Google That For You" link without looking at any of the search results that Google provided you. The first link is to a Quora discussion about manned space travel, the second is a CNN article about whether we still need to have men on the moon.
So are you suggesting that only manned missions count as space exploration?
But then... your somewhat hastily provided Google resultsreally start to get interesting:
We get a YouTube video about extraterristrials, two pages from "Above Top Secret" and a website that suggests, "NASA is hiding a very dark secret from us" and that's why we haven't been to the moon. Then there's a link to a young adult Transformers novel on Google books and then a site called "Educating Humanity" which tells us the reason we haven't sent men to the moon is...aliens.
The next time you think to post a "Let Me Google That For You" page, you might want to actually check the links it provides to make sure they don't make you look like a complete schmuck.
I reallize the a person is going to take what the market will pay them, but it is seriously difficult to imagine that they are worth that much.
Then you really won't want to read about David M. Zaslav, from the Discovery Network and The Learning Channel (former home of the Duggar family and Honey Boo Boo) who's total compensation in 2014 was...$156 million!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/1026872...
It is good to be an oligarch.
The fact that we went to the moon in "fucking 1969" is exactly the problem: it was a colossal waste of money. And the reason we haven't returned is the same reason: it still would be a colossal waste of money.
Um, we DID return, and multiple times.
Do you have any of your facts straight or do you just type with the seat of your pants?
First, you believed Columbus' voyages were "privately financed" and then you think we only went to the moon once. Give us a reason why anything else you say should be taken seriously if you can't get basic facts right.
For example, Columbus' Voyage was privately financed
And where do you think Queen Isabella got that money? She wasn't a tech billionaire. The funding came from the Spanish Royal Treasury. That means Spanish peasants paid for it and spoils of war paid for it and outright theft paid for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You think that solid gold throne Queen Elizabeth sits on when she's wearing her Imperial Crown that contains 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and 5 rubies was paid for by the money that the House of Windsor made through honest labor?
danger is that the US government is going to interfere with private space exploration through ridiculous regulations and restrictions.
That US government you speak of derisively got us to the moon and back in fucking 1969. While the mighty private sector is barely replicating what the Mercury Program did over half a century ago. It appears John Galt is not only unoriginal, but he's kind of a fuck-up too.
i get it
so "he went to alpha centauri"/ "he didn't leave at all" isn't known until you interact
there's no guaranteeing you go anywhere
schrodinger's rocket ship
yes, agreed. the idea of keeping anything larger than an atom entangled for anything longer than a second over any distance over an inch seems like a colossal almost impossible task with today's technology
i was only doing a thought experiment
in the realm of way out there then: i wonder if you could entangle a number of "copies" of yourself: dozens, hundreds, millions
you just sort of disperse throughout the universe (not interacting with anything, i know, basically impossible by today's standards)
but in an instant, if you, or someone outside, decides one "copy" of you should be the one that coheres at a given place: boom, you're there
just an interesting thought with interesting ramifications- you (or someone else) doesn't have to decide out of dozens or maybe thousands of destinations... until the very last moment. that's a pretty exotic form of "travel"
it's called desalination and it's a common mundane technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
"boiling the oceans" makes me think you have no fucking clue about the kind of scale we're talking about here
if every nation exerted every single drop of it's GDP building desalination plants, we wouldn't make the tiniest of dents in the oceans genius
There are a lot of fake liberals there.
Having dealt with the Chicago "limousine liberal", I think I know what to expect.
It doesn't really worry me. I can find decent people anywhere. Thanks for the heads up.
exactly
or fire risk
dc is less safe for both shock and fire
if they desalinate ocean water for drinking purposes, the question is what to do with all that salt
answer: process it and take out all of the economically important trace elements, not just lithium
The total lithium content of seawater is very large and is estimated as 230 billion tonnes, where the element exists at a relatively constant concentration of 0.14 to 0.25 parts per million (ppm),[40][41] or 25 micromolar;[42] higher concentrations approaching 7 ppm are found near hydrothermal vents.[41]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
sure, this would put lithium at a high price point, but not that high if the desalination and concentration process is mostly solar powered and on a massive scale for drinking water purposes
i understand that
but if there were some way to make sure the two "copies" do not interact with anything. i didn't say that was remotely possible today, or perhaps ever. just a way out there thought experiment
i get it: they are guaranteed the same white noise, which is fine for encryption purposes (and know if someone snooped, because that would render their white noise dissimilar)
but there is no preserving the integrity of a particle/ wave for transportation purposes
thank you, i learned something
isn't quantum entanglement a burgeoning field in quantum cryptography?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q...
quantum key distribution would not be researched if what you say is true
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
