no country truly appreciates freedom until it's gone through a few decades of fascism and/or of a dictatorship of the proletariat. It seems it's time for the USA to have such an "enlightening" experience.

People that say such things are MASSIVELY ignorant about US history. We've slid far backwards lately, but there's no question the situation was, far, far worse various times in the past. Get back to me when we're interning all the Arab-Americans in camps...

Your math is fine, other than that whole orders-of-magnitude thing.

I wonder if they sent a mouse or appropriate sized o2 to co2 animal how long the seeds could grow.

Because you start simple and work your way up when doing these kinds of thing. And because seeds convert very little CO2 to O2 because they consume very little CO2. The mouse would be dead pretty quickly.
 

I guess you'd also need a heater to keep the mouse alive in the cold of space. They could send a little bit of radioactive material to help regulate the temp

But then, once on the warm surface of the lit side of the moon... he'd likely be screwed by the combined heat of the source and the radiant heat of the surface. Assuming he hasn't died because of the lack of O2... or the lack of water. Or the lack of food. Or... etc... etc...

Life support, like pretty much anything else in space, gets really complicated really fast once you get beyond a couple of hours duration.

In the Navy we called it a "white mutiny". It was fairly effective at getting the attention of the chain of command.

I was taking the stance that harmful (either to the animal or the human) sexual contact could occur, and because of that we need some kind of law to regulate it. Not an outright ban, just limitations. If, for example, we declare gorillas people (as this lawsuit aims to do) they'd need to be taught not to act like an alpha silverback does in the wild; conversely, you'd still want regulations against penetrative sex with smaller animals likely to be harmed as that would constitute a clear-cut case of animal abuse.

This. Essentially these journalists are tinfoil hat nutters, making an unforced personal choice - and blaming it on others.

Okay, fair. Prevent and redress harm.

De minimis non curat lex. Laws were invented to prevent harm, not categories of behaviour. Your point is fundamentally misguided.

Are you assuming that each drone will self destruct after dropping of a new SSD drive in the rooftop mailroom chute at an office building? I expect they're planning to use the same drone more than once. Sort of like we use UPS trucks at least three or four times before destroying them.

The sky did fall. The protestors of the 1800's were correct. The people displaced by technology in the 1800s fell into poverty and early death, and England, for instance, was home to immense poverty and despair. We don't want to remember, which is not the same thing as not-happened. We choose to remember the happy industrialist and middle-class lifestyles which came from impoverishing the workers, not the majority of miserable people they created by re-distributing the wealth from the majority of the working people to their own class.

thing to remember is that the people who were protesting their replacement by machines weren't really asking for history to be rolled back - they wanted to be *cut in on the profits* created by removing them from the books. They wanted some income redistribution. They lost. Since they didn't run university history courses, as industrialists did, they have been expunged from our collective memory and rendered into silly people who didn't want to stop making horse collars by hand.

The price of all this will be misery, violence, hunger and early death for hundreds of millions of people, eventually, if history repeats. Looks like "yes". And no one will want to take notice, other than intense coverage of the violence in the "bad" neighborhoods.

More prisons, more Randism, more upper class loathing of the "lazy", less food assistance, less of any financial assistance, removal of affordable housing, drastic anti-loitering laws, and finally really nasty anti-rioting weapons and roundup tactics against agitators.

I'm not describing the dystopic future - I'm describing the reaction right now. And the anti-poor crackdown will only intensify. The riots will be christened "terrorism" and all those lovely laws we've created since 2001 will finally find their real use.

Woefully for whom? The last few manufacturing jobs in the industry and the people who work them are woeful?

Where the hell is anyone going to get a job other than cleaning rich people's toilets? Hell, there's probably a robot for that.

Shantytowns are illegal most everywhere, so people can't even squat in the mud and eat trash in peace when they lose their livelihoods. Should we just suggest 90% of the planet's human population just get it over with and off itself?

The same answer still applies - pulling out is preferable to damage to the device, cable, wall wart, or prongs.

Poor track record? How so? They haven't popped one on the pad, as all the majors did getting to this point.

Seriously? Have you just crawled out of a cave? They've had multiple issues in Falcon V's seven launches to date. (Not to mention the Falcoln I.)
 

These posts are so three years ago. SpaceX is bi-coastal and in business.

No, they're reality. No matter how hard you try and bury your head in the sand or how many ignorant "have they popped one on the pad" comments you make.
 

Oh, and birds don't have to be 1/4B$ if launch costs drop by an order of magnitude. You don't have to be that careful. You can afford to lose a few.

Not gonna happen. No matter how cheap launch gets, space is still an unforgiving and difficult environment - and the costs of an outage are still high. The expense of launching is not a significant cost driver for major satellites.

Etc... etc... Though your fellow fanbois have modded you up, they're as clueless as you are.

You're right. The whole idea should be completely scrapped.