DabAsteroid

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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
The scarcity is an engineering problem, which is being solved. But scarcity is what makes mined-diamonds valuable. http://www.google.com/search?q=exclusivity+luxury How did you get the idea that diamond-scarcity is a problem?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
It is even better to stock up on $1s.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Indeed. http://images.google.com/images?q=aircraft+birdstrike
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Article excerpt: Testing is under way of an F-18 with a covered aft cockpit to help prove that a camera-equipped aircraft with no forward view windows could be a viable option for a future supersonic business jet. The external vision syste
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NASA researches windowless cockpits; future businessjets might employ(aviationweek.com)
2 points by DabAsteroid 18y ago|3 comments
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
How long are your stopping-distances?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Also, in the Netherlands, child euthanasia is openly practiced. http://www.google.com/search?q=netherlands+euthanasia+child 280,000 hits.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Do you judge sexual abstainers? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22abstinence+is+murder%22
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Excerpt from the html sourcecode: I managed to crop the video in 4 and having the first one with the audio. At first I though FLV decompression was going to be hard for any CPU and having 4 videos playing at once was going to be hard, but
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Is there an article at that link about partnering with the big and powerful?
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
A lot of his type get attracted to entrepreneurship because of the freedom of life that it 'offers' Angel investor Dave Berkus talks about the "freedom dream", also, here (at the beginning of a 9:32 video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
The bailout doesn't go into effect for at least a month. That doesn't mean it can't have an effect on current prices. Market actors are capable of anticipating future market events. What is your take on Osborne Computer? Was it simply a c
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
YouTube video about the Nakheel Tower (0:55): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtWFN6vBYx8
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
It is only 1 kiloton. The 1908 Tunguska meteor was ~10-20 megatons, and caused no known deaths or injuries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event . According to that Wikipedia article, kiloton-range bolides (airburst meteors) typica
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
You're going to need to pay at least 10,000 ... for a patent search From where does that information derive? http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-cant-afford-pa... If you do not want to perform your own search, or want a more
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
David Allen, founder of Quest Online, dropped out of high school. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_M5IMVjeSM A lot of the most-successful members of the Terman gifted-group dropped out of high-school.
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I don't disagree with the statement that Henry Ford gave the public the automobile (instead of merely a better horse). I agree with your analogy (as long as "faster" can be replaced with "better" -- since horse-based transport had other pro
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I have threatened this several times Maybe this points to the root of the communication problem between you and them. By threatening, instead of doing what an assertive person might do (which might be to simply walk away with the code tha
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
They have filed a provisional patent and this is an interesting point. I agree. That is an interesting point. http://www.google.com/search?q=patent+fraud+%22must+be+the+i... The person requesting the patent must be the inventor
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Karl Benz created the first automobile The first automobile was created before Karl Benz was born. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile Benz created the first production automobile in 1888, 3 years after his (and, re
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
This talk is in 9 parts (10 minutes each), and was posted only 2 hours ago. Menu here: http://www.youtube.com/user/QOLTube
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Realities of the Game Industry and Entrepreneurship - David Allen of Quest Online(youtube.com)
3 points by DabAsteroid 18y ago|2 comments
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Venture investors are not looking for things with a low risk of failure. Doug Richard (of BBC's Dragons' Den) says the same thing, here (starts at 4:10 of 6:57; moneyline at 5:30): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71dl3lZdvU You have to
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I'll check those references, when I have access to a copy of the book. You have access to The g Factor right now, if you have web access, since the entire text of The g Factor is online at Amazon.com (which allows viewing of any page, up
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
15PB/year is "today". 6 CDs per second is the hoped-for "full speed" future. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Well, like you said, getting out of the atmosphere gives you the option of using a rail-gun (electronic catapult), but you could launch satellites from the roof a tall building, the same way. A 100-mile wide, 100-mile tall cylindrical build
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
What a backhanded compliment. I'm sorry. I wasn't intending any compliments. . What do Mormons have to do with the monolithic domes? The Souths are Idaho Mormons. They talk about it all the time. There is a culture of self-relian
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
can you get a stable orbit that includes a single strong deflection in the direction of the earth? You are referring to an eliptical orbit, right? The satellite in this elliptical orbit bounces against a space-elevator anchor at apogee, r
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
Let's try to find out what I don't understand about what you just said. You have a too-short elevator. You have satellites. The satellites are going too fast for their orbit, and by "deflection" they push up the anchor of the elevator as th
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by DabAsteroid 18y ago
the others were some religious nut-bags, trying to convince me to accept Jesus, I told them that most Bulgarians accepted Jesus in 864 Probably LDS missionaries (Mormons). http://www.google.com/search?q=lds+missionaries+bulgaria At leas

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