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by marze 10y ago
Or Note 7 phones burning, obviously
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by marze 10y ago
Different, but both true. If you have a 5% of dying in transit or at Mars due to equipment failure, as well as a 2% increased chance of getting cancer at some time in the future, the first obviously is the one to worry about.
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by marze 10y ago
How not?
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by marze 10y ago
Isn't SpaceX founder Musk's stake in Tesla already worth more than $10B? Obviously, that'd be backup to backup plan for funding.
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by marze 10y ago
Risks are relative. Early travelers will face very significant risks. Radiation and zero g are indeed risks, but a minor compared to the other risks.
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by marze 10y ago
You need to think of it as a retirement community for well-to-do individuals with a desire for above average adventure. There are a lot of high net worth individuals on this planet.
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by marze 10y ago
People have lived in zero g for a year at a time, without significant health impact. The SpaceX proposed transit of three months is a quarter of that. These year long stays were on the space station, which has similar or less shielding. Th
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by marze 10y ago
The SpaceX Mars architecture: it is the answer to an unknown question, an artifact from the future time traveling back to the present. The objectives and constraints that were used in the design process are not revealed. It is like Phouchg
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by marze 10y ago
And the orange smoke, suggesting burning bridges.
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by marze 10y ago
The word "hello".
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by marze 10y ago
Finally the switch to ARM?! The invite suggests!
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by marze 10y ago
Say someone was fired for supporting Clinton in this election by a company run by a supported of Trump. Would it make news? Freedom of thought and speech was what America was founded on, so they say.
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by marze 10y ago
SpaceX has years to work before they miss their first person on Mars timeframe estimate. I wouldn't be surprised if they are late, or over budget. But I'd be very surprised if they are 10000 times over budget. But I'd be eve
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by marze 10y ago
True, they are different. The biggest difference is this: SpaceX target cost per person to Mars: $0.2M Govt target: $10000M (estimated) While SpaceX may not reach their target, one can't help but notice factor of 50000 difference.
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by marze 10y ago
SLS: a worthwhile project to spend billions on? Or, a tremendous waste of time and money, existing only to keep govt. dollars flowing to the same contractors who profited from Shuttle? The reason it exists at all is because average voters p
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by marze 10y ago
Simply part of a trend of bureaucracies / governments to always extend their power.
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by marze 10y ago
Looks like The Onion has branched out into goofy wind power stories and gizmodo picked it up. Wind turbine power combined with solar is an unbeatable combo, but this isn't the real thing.
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by marze 10y ago
The crew announcement should offer a $5000 bonus for everyone who leaves without a bag. Even if they don't have one. It would be much more effective than the threat of a fine.
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by marze 10y ago
That's the complicated viewpoint. The simple viewpoint is that it is completely nuts.
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by marze 10y ago
Having unelected bureaucrats from other countries making the rules under which your citizens live seems the opposite of "empire".
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by marze 10y ago
Additional interesting thoughts on sulfer and health in this Weston Price Foundation article: http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/...
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by marze 10y ago
Someone should crowdfund the development of an awesome new robot for Mr Snowden's use, and those with similar needs.
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by marze 10y ago
You'd think terrorism/spy cases would be a small minority of overall cases. And not that hard to justify a warrant. Seems odd that they feel it is important to skip the warrant step for such cases. Why not require a warrant? Th
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by marze 10y ago
Zero successful attacks. Bottom line. No one here is familiar with the concept of "deterrence", apparently.
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by marze 10y ago
This is naive. Why would you assume the same number of successful attacks on air travel would occur without the security? You can't argue that the current system hasn't done well, it has performed fantastically, based on the numb
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by marze 10y ago
"A recent study in the journal Criminal Justice Ethics notes that in North Carolina, state and local law-enforcement agencies operating crime labs are compensated $600 for DNA analysis that results in a conviction" This was by far
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by marze 10y ago
What percentage? Under 1%? Of that, the lawn gets a lot more than showers, or more ridiculously, a glass of water.
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by marze 10y ago
This is excellent and can only help to improve the (currently dismal) understanding of the gut biome. But, it only measures bacteria and archaea. To eukaryotes and fungi, it is blind. And those are obviously I'm important components
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by marze 10y ago
This is almost universally misinterpreted. The actual interpretation of the chant is this: we are the space program of the USA.
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by marze 10y ago
It's nuclear power from a remote reactor, and it isn't too cheap to meter but is heading that way.

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