Take that $1000 a year and put it into an IRA. You will get more from that than your cell phone could ever return.
Only someone who doesn't have a real job or own a small business could think that. Honestly, if the increased productivity of having a smart phone doesn't give me a better return on my investment than I could get with an IRA then I must be a pretty dim bulb.
Instead, build long tunnels between major cities, evacuate them down to between 0 and 3 psi, and run high speed trains through them. The trains would need very little energy to run thru the extremely thin atmosphere, and the pressure diffential can be used to generate electricity when needed. 2 birds, 1 stone.
Yeah, the energy expended to create and maintain the vacum will magically be returned doubled. Yay, free energy forever!! All the birds in the universe by one magical stone.
This, in my book, is what it's all about. The relevant information was shared with people in a position to understand it and analyze it. It'd be a whole different story if the public wasn't filled with a bunch of ignorant whack-jobs, trying to smear scientists. When we're trying to do science, we'd rather do science than defend ourselves against hacks with a public soapbox. If you want access to the data and the code, go to a school and study the stuff. All the doors are open then. The price of admission is just having some vague idea wtf you're talking about.
Man, this is why people hate academics. You are saying that in order for me to have the right to look at your work and possibly criticize your methods I have to join your club? I can't possibly recognize shitty conclusions or biased thinking without devoting 10 years of my life to fitting in with your particular little group. You are not a scientist you are bureaucrat. p.s. Kiss my ass
There are periodically arguments of ideological integrity vs. pragmatism in all areas. I usually react by asking "which foot do you use to walk?" or "when you climb a mountain, to you look at the path to the summit or to your feet?". Both ideology and pragmatism are required. If you use only ideology, you will not get anything practical done; if you use only pragmatism, you get something done, but it may well be in the wrong direction.
Wow, if you are being ironic you are a freaking genius and I bow before you. If, however, you take yourself seriously enough to actually craft pseudo fortune cookie crap like that and mean it, I mock you from the depths of my very soul.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson
