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So many people do not realize the incredible and wonderful job the Americans and Soviets did in the 1960's.
None of which would have been possible without all the incredible and wonderful work the Nazis did in the 1930s-1940s. Just sayin'.
What were the Nazi's contributions to orbital mechanics? Otherwise your inference is a non sequitar.
the USA is the only country to send men to another world. the Chinese talk of walking on the moon in 2025.
So far. So in a few years, you'll be able to say "Well, yeah - but we were first!" BFHD
When I think of the Sun and science, I can't help but think of the James Bond movie Moonraker where the opposing teams of astronauts / space marines are killing each other in Earth orbit with space lasers, one guy gets hit, and he starts to fall into the Sun.
Our first war in orbit will be the last one for a long time. Of course it will be the end of most everything in orbit. There was a reason the US only tested 1 sat killer, and there was an uproar when the Chinese did that a few years ago. Space junk. The massive amounts of debris will prevent most space travel until most of it de-orbits.
What the heck happened to your news feed? these baby steps India is taking we did decades ago. We put landers on Mars in the 70s.
Because you don't just aim something at Mars and blast off
So many people do not realize the incredible and wonderful job the Americans and Soviets did in the 1960's. Aside from the obvious rocket building and testing, there is the orbital mechanics science, which is not simple at all. The skill involved is monumental, and just because it was done way back then does not make it trivial. India and China are simply at different points on the learning curve.
And some day, they will probably do some incredible things, and our politicians who helped keep NASA form doing more will indignantly ask, "How did this happen?"
Nonsense, the American space program is far ahead of the rest of the world. Who has rovers on Mars? who has done massive inventory of planets around other stars? who has craft half way to Pluto? Who has craft orbiting Mercury to map the planet, that discovered ice and organics at its poles?
And the Chinese are starting to reach for the planets. With humans. We're redoing versions of what we have done before. And while the Chinese are playing catch up, as well as the Indians, we are not going any further than what we are now.
Where are the Americans ?
We're servicing the stockholders, and anyhow, that space stuff is verging on sedition, being science and all. And science is bad.
It is easy to imagine a period of time in the not to distant future when medical science understands cognition and emotion well enough to control it say, like we do with blood pressure. Take a pill, you're really better. No major nasty side effects. Clear efficacy. Perhaps even permanent cures.
I for one, am not sure I want to welcome those particular overlords.
We'll all be accountants at that point.
How long until "disagreeing with the politics of the ruling party" becomes a mental illness?
Perhaps, but more likely is how long before we start lowering the threshold for which someone requires "help". Especially if the facilities were private, which is 99% certain these days.
In 2008 in Pennsylvania two judges were convicted of accepting bribes from Robert Mericle, who owned private youth detention facilities. In return, they would sentence kids to incarceration in his facilities
The invisible hand of the free market in action! Too bad anyone who claims to see said hand will be declared insane.
But the concern is real. The underlying evil in for profit prisons and for profit mental incarceration is that a publicly held corporation must show increased profit on a regular basis.
The only way to increase profit is to either lower costs or increase the people who are the "product", so that the customer pays more.
There are finite limits to decreasing costs. There is already a large prisoner to guard ratio, building costs are relatively constant. You can minimize feed, but if the Prisoners starve to death, there goes a lot of profit. The desired outcome is for as many prisoners, serving as long of prison sentences as the society will allow, and kept alive as long as possible in prison. A fine recipe to serve the stockholders.
So the only practical way to ensure increased profit in a prison or mental institution run as a business is to create more criminals or people who are incarcerated for mental issues, should the latter system arise.
All in all, a completely morally bankrupt system.
what do you think mandated health care is really about?
It means you can now get a prescription for your tinfoil hat.
Can it be officially installed up my anus?
What are you going to talk out of then?
Here is what sums it up for me:
Thiel, meanwhile, voiced a related opinion in his own article for Cato Unbound: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Simply Brilliant! You believe that freedom and democracy are not compatible, so you go for a system in which only one person or family is free.
No. As is the overwhelming stance of the OT, and consistent with the "New Covenant" notion first introduced by Christ, people dying before that point in history are "just dead".
How do I get some of that action? The concept of heaven and hell in the Christian religion are equally unpleasant. To have to worship somoene who's going to torture me if I don't, and who has destroyed the world before for some pretty lame reasons seems exceptionally immoral to me. Sounds like a protection racket.
"Umm, Mac. hey, umm. yeah. Like Yaweh, you know, the big guy? Yeah, he's been thinking 'bout ya. You need to worship him. Check in at his station once a week, And like, you know, he takes a 10 percent cut off the top of your earnings, see? That's how he keeps ya doing well. Hey, how's the wife and kids doing? All healthy and safe? Yeah. Hey, you know, it would be terrible if something happened to your immortal soul, ya know? Hey, we're just sayin' Mac, you know what I mean?"
Then God was pleased, for he could cast the sinning Eve as the first human that the kind and loving God tossed into the lake of fire, to be tortured forever and ever, Amen.
Except that God isn't "tossing" people into the lake of fire. Christian theology seems to suggest that people who willingly reject God are going to hell by their own hands.
And those who never heard of God are likewise going to be in hell. As well as people who believe in other religions.. Even amongst the Christians, the Catholics are going to Hell, as well as the Baptists. I grew up in a strict Catholic family, with strict Baptist Grandparents. Oh, the fun I had as a child.
It's not hard to sum it up. This God demands that you worship him. If you do, when you die, you will go to another place, where you will continue to worship him. If you do not worship him, you will be tortured forever.
Pretty much sum it up?
I always wondered what he would do if you decided not to worship him when you got to heaven. Or what if you lost a husband or wife in life, then got remarried, then re-met the original in heaven. Or divorce? Is sex not allowed in heaven? If it's for procreation only, then I guess it isn't. Or if it is, is the procreation bit waived? Or do some children get a free heaven pass by being born to people already in heaven? Do these children have no free will, or does that tie back to my question about him casting you out of heaven once you entered if you decided not to worship him any more? And is it adultery if you have sex with your original wife whom you lost through accident or misadventure? Or if not, that means that bigamy is okay in heaven?
Part of it seems to be the self fulfilling prophecy of the "Girls are not good at math and science" stereotype thing. Even though they start out doing better than boys, they stop trying because that thought creeps in from what their peers or others in the community say.
Then here might be a fundamental difference and disconnect between males and females.
With all due respect to anyone who finds me uncool, or does't like my ideas or interests. I just truly do not give a flying fig about that. It is my interest, not theirs.
But if a young woman can have an interest, and be discouraged to the point of abandoning it just because some other people do not think it is cool, then the problem is immense, and might be intractable.
What is more, the present day approach - "We must eliminate the male centric enforcement of Tech careers" - is completely wrong.
Young women would have to realize that their "problem" is not necessarily the fault of males, but of their own gender and the values their own gender might be trying to impose.
And looking at the direction society is running these days, that isn't going to happen. Little girls don't wear T-Shrts that read "Boys are Stupid - Throw Rocks at them for nothing. http://www.tshirts.in/xtees/ladies-t-shirts_lt00002/boys-are-stupid-throw-rocks-at-them-tops.htm
And an actual assault is considered cute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3T8kkXEVKY
Or blatant sexual crap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcSOIZJOWhM
Mainline media. The world has changed, and most men are well beaten down.
My point? If this actually is a problem, it will be exceptionally hard to fix, because women will be looking for the answer to the wrong problem. This will be a completely unpopular position, but not necessarily because it is wrong.
I have a very small mind and must live with it. -- E. Dijkstra