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Comment Ops! (Score -1) 414

Baxter, if good enough, could give other countries cheap manufacturers a run for their money, but short of the jobs used in creating the first few "Baxter" machines, will not create much more. I can imagine Baxters manufacturing and maintaining more Baxters, and not increaing the amount of people employed at all.

Comment Re:So I suppose Obama (Score -1) 805

Since when is telling the truth a war crime or a terrorist act? How is telling the truth worst than having the blood thirsty crew of a helicopter gunship killing unarmed civilians? We know that thanks to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. If you see anything criminal on that, your idea of crime, terrorist, truth and decency are very different from mine.

Comment Re:Travel to Future IS Possible (Score -1, Flamebait) 658

Not really. You have not considered the way that light behaves at high speed. I suggest you investigate the "relativistic doppler effect" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect ) before you go any further. Basically as you approach the speed of light, the frequency of the light wave that approaches you increases to twice the speed of light (blueshift http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshift), so the frequency of light approaching the traveler from the object he is approaching will get past ultraviolet frequencies and into the X-ray frequency spectrum cooking everything in the alleged spaceship (Crew included), so even though it could be at some point in the future "technically possible" to achieve those speeds, we need to consider the practicality as there is no point in traveling to arrive to your destination roasted.

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