Comment Why? (Score 1) 63
Other than for reentry space vehicles - why would you, if you wanted to go at speeds like that, still travel inside our atmosphere?
Other than for reentry space vehicles - why would you, if you wanted to go at speeds like that, still travel inside our atmosphere?
This is coming out of the country of "we're so big, we have to drive everything", and of "we're so big, we have cell phone coverage nearly nowhere"?
Is this port knocking, or does each port do something different, or is it simply trial-and-error between ports?
Now we know what this new satellite does. It aims at other satellites and buzzes them (and/or photographs them, or destroys them, either by smashing into it, or by using some sort of weapon on the platform itself).
Because I read now that a 750ml bottle of wine contains 10 units of alcohol, while I was always taught that it contains six glasses, and that normal glasses all more or less compared in their alcohol amount (and were therefore considered a 'unit'). So 21 units would be 2 bottles of wine a week. That, in my mind, is still somewhat heavy drinking. Not overly so, but still.
Because it's just a subsidy on income. All it would do is raise prices. Because hey - people can afford things because they have a UBI.
Sad.
I know it's not a popular opinion in this day and age, but cat-calling is also just banter. Take it in stride.
'My cock is so big, it has its own cock. And even that cock is bigger than yours.'
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The NewBrain. With ZX80 and 32KByte RAM and camelcasing. Fantastic little machine.
Shouldn't the fact that the data then becomes useless, be easy enough to prove? And by that implication, that 'reality = racist, sexist'? I'll be looking out for your whitepaper on the subject.
Java is in the Philippines, stupid.
- I keed - I know it's in Indonesia.
That's 45 years, not 35.
Robots would have to be able to 'independently reproduce' for this. Otherwise, you'd still need the occasional spare part / replacement. And this independency would have to go back all the way to the ore mining.
"If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it..." -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, _The Forbidden Tower_