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by lutorm 9y ago
That is ridiculous. While it may be done out of dissatisfaction, it is most definitely made for the purpose of "placing the person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury."
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by lutorm 9y ago
Those are not supernovae, which brighten and fade over a span of weeks . (The energy input of core-collapse supernovae is the radioactive decay of Nickel-56 (half life 6 days) and Cobalt-56 (77 days).) Edit: those may have been Iridium fla
723.
by lutorm 9y ago
he said "different" abilities Are you seriously saying that the meaning I should take away from that quote is that women don't work in tech because of their superior ability? And the quote we're arguing about, "
724.
by lutorm 9y ago
it can also revoke/revise that directive as it wants Which Sessions just did.
725.
by lutorm 9y ago
That SpaceX page is over 4 years old. That was back when "production" meant a few rockets per year. (Not that the volume is anywhere comparable even today.)
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by lutorm 9y ago
More relevant is that a vastly larger fraction of your tax dollars go to things related to the military-industrial complex, aka "defense".
727.
by lutorm 9y ago
If you are in a high-tax state, your employees will pay a lot in taxes, and the cost is passed on to you, their employer. You will need to pay them enough to pay 40% in taxes and have some money left for living expenses. The flip side is
728.
by lutorm 9y ago
Except Finland was never invaded by the USSR at any time after WW2, so NATO can't be implicated in any way for those.
729.
by lutorm 9y ago
It does matter if you want to actually talk about it. If you're just interested in making yourself feel better by calling other people names, then maybe not. But it's very basic human psychology to be less inclined to hear people
730.
by lutorm 9y ago
No, the issue is not that extending human lifespans is ethically wrong (it may or may not be, but that's an opinion about research.) It's claiming that people working on such research are unethical people. A very basic part about
731.
by lutorm 9y ago
Requiring a prescription ensures that you use the products under the care of a medical professional.
732.
by lutorm 9y ago
You need it for glasses except reading glasses.
733.
by lutorm 9y ago
I don't mind people being socially conservative, you can have whatever opinions you want about how you think people should live their lives or whatnot, and I'm perfectly willing to discuss them with you. I may not understand how y
734.
by lutorm 9y ago
Hawaii, too.
735.
by lutorm 9y ago
Lawrence Lessig is trying to challenge not the Electoral College directly but the winner-takes-all way of selecting electors in court, arguing that the Bush v Gore precedent of equal protection taking precedent over the states right to run
736.
by lutorm 9y ago
The same process, but in a different scenario, was observed in supernova 1987a: "Approximately two to three hours before the visible light from SN 1987A reached Earth, a burst of neutrinos was observed at three separate neutrino observ
737.
by lutorm 9y ago
Raptor is a conventional chemical rocket engine. The thrust is much higher (of order 1 million N vs 5N) but the specific impulse is much worse so your ability to reach speeds is limited by the amount of propellant you need to carry.
738.
by lutorm 9y ago
I made the argument that women are less INTERESTED But interest is an outcome , influenced for example by the presence or absence of role models or the impression of certain fields as not welcoming to women. If I remember the state of th
739.
by lutorm 9y ago
If my experiment fails to show anything conclusive, I should be open to re-evaluating some of the things I rejected, but I refuse to do it out of zealous belief in my hypothesis. You are arguing a straw man. The "experiments" in
740.
by lutorm 9y ago
The article touched on this a bit. If you have a nonstandard background, you are less likely to have prepared for these kinds of situations because it's less likely you have parents, mentors, or peers to learn these things from.
741.
by lutorm 9y ago
The underlying assumption is that, if you average over a large enough population, there should be no underlying consistent difference between subsets selected on gender, race, or class, so a difference of outcome is presumed to be a result
742.
by lutorm 9y ago
its rotation in the orbital plane changes due to GR. Actually, it would change even without GR. The orbital ellipse is only constant in the ideal two-body problem. The fact that planets aren't perfectly spherically symmetric, and the
743.
by lutorm 9y ago
"Precession" is just another word for rotation. It sounds like you're thinking of a spinning top, whose rotation axis will precess (rotate) around another axis (usually the local vertical). In the context use here, the prece
744.
by lutorm 9y ago
Sure. It also has to be powered up and aligned to a known attitude and position within a not-too-distant past, because actual gyroscopes have friction and are not perfectly locked in space. Either the guy didn't actually know how they
745.
by lutorm 9y ago
Most policies exempt "acts of God", but I think forest fires are firmly in the covered realm. A meteor hitting your house might be in the uncovered area. (They also exempt acts of war, so a north korean missile hitting your house
746.
by lutorm 9y ago
NASA is supporting the privatized space industry, though. Remember that Dragon were/is developed because NASA gave SpaceX a contract for ISS support. Falcon 9 development also got NASA support.
747.
by lutorm 9y ago
If I die from a lightning strike while hiking, I'm pretty sure that's not counting as "natural causes" either.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Actually, studies have shown that hunter-gatherer societies spent much less than 40h/week "working" and had more leisure time than we do. It's just recent history that's an anomaly...
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by lutorm 9y ago
Alfred Nobel only wanted to reward people for making discoveries. There are many reasons one can argue that this is counterproductive (Like this article points out, science is not a single-person endeavor, but even more importantly is that
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by lutorm 9y ago
It's the Big Falcon Rocket.

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