Posts by Yag

Re: The next man on the Moon will be Chinese

The US seemed rather interested in space for two main reasons :

- Because of the other use of rockets. You know, the one with the funny explosive devices on top.

- Because the other side was beating them to it.

You may think "FOR SCIENCE!" should be in the list, but it was probably not considered very important...

Now, the question is... Why are the chineese interested in space? i'ld say the first reason still apply for them, but i'ld also wager that they are planning long term exploitation of space-based ressources.

"That's how the universe works."

Well, I'ld say "That's our most accurate explanation of how the universe works" instead...

*Get back to wikipedia article on young's experiment*

Re: Propulsion

Probably more death than that due to the environmentalist riots to stop the launches.

And most of the PR staff will commit suicide as well.

Re: Shock Horror!

- Local responsible : "no, I don't set prices, the mothership set it."

- Global responsible : "No, I don't set prices, it's locally set."

Actually, it looks like the usual "Pass the blame" corporate game...

Re: Who gives a crap if the public is onboard?`

It might have an influence in the overall public space policies...

And we can save huge energy by mining, processing and building in space - mining alone won't be enough.

Re: “Waiting for certainty will fail as a strategy,"

<Devil's attorney>

Well, you know... sulphur dioxide actually had some "cooling" effects...

Same goes for the smog.

The last two parts are actually very dangerous, as it may trigger overpopulation woes (demographic transition is not an instant process...)

So it seems that we cannot agree on those either.

</Devil's attorney>

The less overall pollution there is, the better it should be.

Re: "who was then the politician?"

Well...

- No arm to do real work,

- Just slithering around like a conniving thief,

- A big mouth filled with lies and deceptions...

The Serpent fit the usual description of a politician.

(NOTE : Sorry for any serpentine friend that I may offend)

Re: handfull of generic ingrediants?

heh... guess what? Seems like you were not the only one...

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2012/12-74AR.html

Re: So

"We had no idea if the rules and models we had developed for all sorts of planetary properties were simply conveniently correlative to our own situation or consistently accurate on a more universal scale."

I still remember the old "Gas giants are always in the outer reaches of planetary systems because all the light elements are drained by the star" dogma...

"galactic coordinate" system

If you want to be future proof, why do you want to stay at the local galaxy scale?

(and even a galactic coordinate system will need some rework after the merging with Andromeda in a few millions of years)

Re: Dump MS, Nokia!

Probably already too late.

And such flights of fancy (Let's dump Symbian! Now let's dump Win8!) will not help the image of Nokia.

Re: Oh well...

Beware of Hadopi!

*laugh*

inconvenient truths?

or incontinent truths?

Re: Cheers to him

Dang, missed it...

http://www.isstracker.com/ seems to be a nice site to know when to take a shot look at it...