Although 99.9% of us have the common sense to get a professional opinion if some test bought on the internet delivers bad news, the FDA denies us access to such tests on the off chance that some idiot will take rash action without consulting a physician. Were that to happen, which I seriously doubt, the worst result would be a slight improvement in the gene pool.

TRSDos > Mac68k > Linux

Several years ago I wrote an octonion calculator using javascript. To compute exp(X) for a general octonion (a type of eight dimensional number) I had to use a power series expansion and test for convergence. This is calculus. To see the code, just view the page source:

http://jwbales.us/rpnOctonion.html

It will be hundreds, perhaps thousands of years before mankind will travel to other stars unless some kind of faster than light travel becomes possible.

One or a few ships would never make it. It would have to be a journey of an entire civilization, one large enough and with the resources and technology to endure a journey lasting thousands of years. And it would only make sense to take such a journey when the resources of this solar system have been exhausted. When the Oort Cloud has been exhausted, its civilization might have the ability and the motive to make such a journey. And such a civilization will have little use for habitable planets, they will be looking for systems with lots of asteroids and other low-gravity resources.

unless limited by the concept of individual rights. The concept of individual rights was the crowning political achievement of the enlightenment and led to the creation of the Unites States of America and its semi-capitalist society. I see no evidence that the Owsers have any conception of or respect for the rights of individuals. Any democracy based upon their non-thinking would lead to tyranny.

In the era of post WWII prosperity progressives and socialists in Europe and the US thought that they could suck enough blood out of the economy to support unfunded retirements and myriad other social 'benefits' and that, thus harnessed, the semi-capitalism that was allowed to exist would fund their paradise forever. Now that the European and US economies have reached the limits such blood-letting, the looters and moocher are 'protesting' that their victims are 'greedy.' The demonstrators claim that capitalism has failed because it cannot continue to finance their social welfare schemes. Like vampires, the 'protesters' will not be satisfied until they have sucked every last drop out of their victims--the 'greedy' productive men and women of Europe and the US.

Well I guess I'm really showing my age. When I was young it was neither radio antennae nor radio antennas, it was radio aerials.