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Comment Re:Hard and expensive (Score 1) 167

It likely means demolishing a lot of existing houses and businesses to make room for the train

It doesn't. What it means is cutting through a lot of big parcels whose owners have big money, so they can be big impediments. There has to be a happier medium than this between respect for individual private property ownership and the needs of the many, but we are clearly uninterested in finding it in this country.

Comment Re:Look and feel (Score 1) 108

"I want GUIs for all common tasks"

What you need is something like MacOS used to have with Commando and MPW, I see that AU/X has something similar and even called the same. You'd probably need a pipelining capability to it. As someone below mentioned, something common for you will differ for someone else.

Comment Re:Are Astronomers Wrong About Dark Energy? Probab (Score 0) 29

"My feeling is that Dark Matter/Energy will go away when they discover the real explanation, but that's just me."

Brilliant!! You vote to replace the mere placeholders in our theories with something else and then declare the placeholders have gone away. Have you told anyone else about this? Or are we just privileged? Maybe you could write a paper for a physics journal and get back to us in how well it was received. Good luck!!

Comment Re:The Sun is fucked (Score 1) 29

Well, Elmo says we can get 1 Million (or was it 1 Billion) people living on Mars by 2050 as a way to preserve humanity from the Hell he is helping to build on Earth. I'm all for it, starting with him. I vote we give him a hammer, some nails, some wood, etc., strap his ass to one of his rockets, and give him a fair sendoff. Go for it, Elmo, you know you can do it!!

Comment Re:Science self-corrects (Score 0) 29

The whole point of the label "Dark Energy" is it's a filler for an unknown that still needs to be explained.

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

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