Is there another reason why only the poor, non white communities are not being covered by the seawall? is it just a coincidence that the rich white people are being protected?

Responsible governmental spending would be better directed at buying out the houses in flood prone areas and building more in safer locations. Thats what works well in the midwest with flood prone rivers, that had dump developers build next to. This is on a whole different scale though... At least Miami is more just, the areas near the ocean are the expensive ones, and those higher up and farther away were historically poorer areas.

Just why though? What does mars have that earth doesn't?

I think to give an American centric pioneer perspective, Most people who say they want to go tot he moon are thinking like late 18th century Denver/Kansas city. Small towns, rustic living, most basic necessities available. They aren't thinking early 18th, where the native people of the land were rather upset at having their land stolen and were fighting back, and no train access to the more civilized east. You want something from New York/ Boston, you get your wagon together and walk.

I mean, in a more perfect world it would be a *simulated* death. I'm not certain they won't need to simulate anything.

It gives me no joy, but given the budget cuts and the stupidity at the top of the chain people will die in really dumb preventable ways. Not complex challenger style ones either, This is going to be painful and sad for all interested in the peaceful development of space travel.

invent a perfect device, then yeah it makes sense. The devices are not currently perfect and may take a couple decades to approach what you are imagining.

If you like nothing, there is nothing wrong with that. All that I can say in favor of nothing is that it adds nothing to its products, but on the other hand, it doesn't add anything to the products. So if the product nothing is marketing was good before they don't touch it, then great. But if the product was crap before, it will be released as crap. They're mostly a transparent branding company that just adds nothing branding and does the regulatory bits to get it importable.

Thats a really ass backwards way of putting it. They regulations were so bad, they instead broke regulations so they didn't have to follow the other regulations. thats gobbledy gook for they did the cheapest thing possible knowing it was shit and not safe because they were self regulated.

Fuck you. I most certainly do have a specific amount of regulation in mind. Absolutes are for dorks like you to use as strawmen.

But high props for your car 93 escort wagon was a hell of a car, that I aspire to own again some day.

No thats stupidity talking. There are meteorological seasons and astronomical ones. Why would we pay attention to where we are around the sun? Why? Isn't it a thousand more times important what it feels like for those that do experience seasons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer#Meteorological_reckoning

Its stupid in the same way that a roller coaster is stupid, recreational scuba diving, mountain climbing, skydiving, skiing, running a marathon, playing an instrument, or playing video games is. Nothing practical is achieved, its a waste of time and money, right? Or maybe people like doing things, and you shouldn't pass judgment on what exactly people enjoy doing with their time and money.

If we are going to start judging people, who buddy buckle the fuck up Because there is NO FUCKING way I approve of what ever you do.

But that deviation from the Newtonian predication wasn't measured until after Newton was dead. His gravitational theory was correct for all the data he had a the time. Its kind of unfair to him to say he was wrong. As a scientist you should stop at the simplest explanation that meets all observable data. Thats what he did

There are four, not two. But Visa and mastercard are the biggest of the four.

There used to be two big American Plane Manufactores:

McDonald Douglass and Boeing.

Boeing was known for meticulously engineering their planes and testing. Heck they basically invented SGML a markup language and precursor to XML just for documentation purposes.

McDonald Douglass was known for barely spending enough to keep their planes from crashing, then the flew too close to the sun with the DC10 and basically became functionally bankrupt.

Then they merged. Guess which culture won out? The slow careful expensive one that was proven to build quality products? Or the one that tried to build them as cheaply as possible?