A court in Argentina granted human rights to a captive Urangutan:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/21/us-argentina-orangutan-idUSKBN0JZ0Q620141221
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/orangutan-granted-basic-legal-rights-in-argentina#.fimQx6Xkb
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/landmark-ruling-ora
William Taylor wrote:
>
> The 4th dimension is going to close down as the galaxy that Jijo is in
> breaks away from the other four galaxies.
>
It also mean that all the "magic" will go out from Jijo. Everything
that can't be explained by XX-cent technology will cease to work.
No more psychic power
Dan Minette thread-killed:
>
> I don't expect to see it, ever. But, that demo is an example of the very
> easy baby steps that would have to be taken very early in the project. The
> fact that we don't have a demo of baby steps is a very good indicator of
> where the project is.
>
This is not fai
David Hobby wrote:
>
> Or are you worried about energy being beamed down inefficiently, producing
> much more heat than just the amount from people using energy directly?
>
No, even if it was possible to beam energy with 100% efficiency...
it's still energy. It comes down, it must get out. If not,
Even if these things were economically viable (which they probably
ain't), ambientally it would be a disaster. I can't image the Earth
getting such extra amount of radiant energy and not turning it (she?
Gaia?) into a hell much worse than the most pessimistic images of the
most radical ecogroups.
ssage that I edited out.
Alberto Monteiro
-- Forwarded message --
From: E. S.
Date: 2013/5/16
Subject: RE: Brin-l List: How to join?
To: ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
(...)
I haven't read Heaven's Reach in a while, but I don't
remember the book answering th
This sounds like something you were saying some time ago:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/04/lots-cars-and-trucks-no-traffic-signs-or-lights-chaos-or-calm/5152/
Except:
"Shared space is a term that simply describes a shift in thinking away
from the regulated highway towards using th
Klaus Stock wrote:
>
> Nope. In Germany, political reasons are the real reasons, not common
> sense.
>
The europeans are crazy. They don't know what to do, they add a lot of
uncertainty to the economy with all those subsidies that come and go,
taxes that come and go, and regulations that come and g
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> The poison you talk about is roundup. And, yes, if I drank a bottle of it,
> I'd probably be sick. But, I've used it on weeds. Spray it on grass, and
> the grass dies, but spray it on weeds 3 inches from grass, and the small
> amount that gets on the grass doesn't hurt it.
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Wind just needs one, effective storage. The lack of it is why
> wind power cannot be counted on as part of peak demand.
> It only made sense when natural gas was expensive.
>
Here in Brazil, Wind is used as part of the electric grid (there is a
country-wide electric grid, on
For God's sake (written as 日本酒), Japan had the "earthquake of the
century", it hit hard on the nuclear plants, and almost nothing
happened. If this is not a very good security test on nuclear power,
then I don't know what could be. Maybe hit a nuclear plant with an
airplane?
Alberto Monteiro
Dan Minette prayed:
>
> We need a black swan.
>
Maybe we already have it. The wiki model is working for editing
wikipedias (not only _the_ Wikipedia, but many other clones, parodies,
porn sites or just silly stuff), It began with IMDB and if they hadn't
been such stupid jerks IMDB would have turned
Marriage equality AND marijuana laws passed? Now we know what
Leviticus really meant by "A man who layeth with another man must be
stoned." -- attributed to George Takei, 2012-11
for the copy-and-paste, Alberto Monteiro
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Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> Further, as a Mormon, Romney doesn't quite pass the WASP test so he
> basically had to tack hard right to build up his conservative cred to get
> the party nomination.
>
Ugh. Mormons have taken control of the Internet (by Facebook). I'm
glad they didn't take control of the USA
So... What about Obama's reelection?
Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans "chose" the
worst possible candidate, someone they put there to lose. Or maybe the
Democrats voted in the Republican primaries to make him win.
Did anyone over there ever think that Mitt Romney had _an
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Spam spam spam spam lovely spam, wonderful spam.a spambot got into
> brin-l.
>
Did you'all notice that 99% of all wikis are controlled by spam bots?
A lot of people create wikis and then abandon them. And the spam bots
take over. Spammers no longer attack mailing lists, w
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> And, ethanol has been a highly subsidized substitute, which
> should lower gasoline consumption about 3%, even with fuel consumption
> constant.
>
BTW, isn't it funny that, in 2011, Brazil was a huge importer of USA's
ethanol? So, the american taxpayers are financing brazilia
BTW, those who like movies and/or greek mythology, stay away
from this crap.
Alberto Monteiro
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David Hobby wrote:
>
> The proposer, "Abductive", may even have been right. But
> that does not mean that he is not a troll.
>
The troll sent me a message. I didn't even bother
to reply a f-y.
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Keith Henson wrote:
>
> I could go into detail including the economic models, but I don't know
> if there is anyone on this list who can follow the physics, chemistry
> and math.
>
Probably not, we are very stupid when it comes down to the math
used in astrodynamics, chemistry or economy.
Alberto
Article Alvin Hph-wayuo was proposed for elimination. From what
I know about such things, it will be eliminated :-(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo
Maybe it's time to setup a Brin wiki
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A great episode!!!
Tool-using dolphins, self-uplifing chimpanzees, dolphins that remember humans
as Gods in the Golden Age.
What's next? Whales, Gorillas or AIs?
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On 2009-09-05, Dan M wrote:
>
> We know that, while we cannot see trends as absolute rules when dealing
> with complex systems, the most persimmons model consistent within the data
> has the best chance of being a reasonable approximation of what we will
> understand as we gain a better, more detai
Rceeberger wrote:
>
>> But here
>> it's not broadcast on "normal" channels, but on the cable-channel
>> "Animax" (aka The Hentai Channel :-) )
>>
>> I'm
>> still on Season 1, so no spoilers please.
>
> How many episodes have you seen?
> I assume you have met "L" if you have gotten in far enough to
Rceeberger wrote:
>
>> OTOH, right now my favourite series is the Anime "Death Note" -
>> I don't miss an episode.
>
> I've seen the whole series and the movies based on the series. They are
> excellent! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-SpNRR8FZk
> Opening theme for season 2 by Maximum the Hormone.
Dave Land wrote:
>
>> But of course I was referring to the conspiracy-theory _secret_ nazi
>> base. The secret nazi base in the other side of the Moon was found
>> when the first spaceships mapped that place, and it was preemptively
>> destroyed with the first successful time-travelling experiment.
Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> And as I'm rereading _Glory Season_ by Himself (thought I'd give it another
> go, as it was back in '95 that I read it first, and didn't like it much
> compared to the Uplift series), it too deals with aliens - um,
> non-genetically modified humans - 'invading' a world.
After four years trying to fix USA's economy, Obama dies.
But he does not die alone: as an asteroid smashes against Earth,
everybody dies. However, in the confusion of dealing with
7 billion incoming souls, the afterlife bureaucracy sends Obama to Hell.
There, he complains, but only after a long
Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/4307262/Nazi-
>angel-of-death-Josef-Mengele-created-twin-town-in-Brazil.html
>
> Joseph Mengele apparently found a way to increase the birthrate of the
> master race, at least in this small Brazilian enclave. Prett
Obamamania, Rio style:
http://g1.globo.com/Carnaval2009/0,,MUL959331-16634,00.html
Partial translation:
Obama masks are a hit in Rio
Each mask is sold at R$ 4.90 (c. US$ 2.10) in the streets
of Saara (Translator's note: an acronym for a commercial
area). Lula and Eduardo Paes (TN: just-elected m
Congratulations! Today you get rid of... of... what's his name? Bull?
Burt? Bast?
An interesting thing: those past weeks, the stock market was so hysterical
that _anything_ Obama said would make it go up, then panic would resume
the next few days and it would crash down again.
Alberto Monteiro
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Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> I've created a Twitter user, KillerBs, associated with the list. (...)
>
I have no fidea of what is a Twitter. I guess it's a kind of robot, and,
in my wish list, a robot that I would like to see is one that grabs
the messages in Brin's blog and reposts here.
Alberto Montei
Dan M wrote:
>
>> I simply can't get wind into my head as an important source of energy.
>>
>> Meddlying with the natural wind systems all over the planet will
>> cause such an horrible impact in the ecosystem that would make the
>> AGW scenarios look like the Garden of Eden.
>
> Well, we do it whe
Dan M wrote:
>
> But, it also means that wind can't be counted on. In another forum I was
> debating this, and was led to a website maintained by the company that has
> the largest fraction of wind in its mix. They stated that they can only
> count on about 5% of nameplate capacity, and that this
Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> HAL is 17 today. Sort of.
>
> http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/01/top-10-evil-com.html
>
In terms of body count, HAL wouldn't even score 100. But, as
I saw in Terminator: The Sarah Chronicle Series, you are anthropormorphisizing
(or something like that) machines.
Albert
Dan M wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd bet a beer that bioengineered fuels, that have >10x the
> efficiency of ethanol production will have a significant market share in 10
> years (say 10% of jet fuel), but electric cars will not be a significant
> player (>5% of cars sold worldwide in 2019) in that tim
Dan M wrote:
>
> and you'll see what I mean. We know that the energy density of gasoline is
> about 46 MJ/Kg. Compare this to the best, most expensive battery (Li ion),
> and we get a factor of 100. Electric cars are more efficient (90% vs 20%),
> so this gets down to a factor of 22 or so in pow
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>
> (Gripe: "10 cents a watt"? I hate it when people are ambiguous about
> whether they mean power or energy ..)
>
I hate it when people ignore existing units, like Joule, and invent
abominations like kwh or MMBTU :-/
Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> On an SF list you forget Aerospace?
>
Aerospace is no longer future history, it's alternate history.
Alberto Monteiro
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d.brin wrote:
>
> Seems I'll be on the telly again. The two-hour special "First
> Apocalypse" aka "What Really Killed the Dinosaurs" is scheduled to
> air on Wednesday, January 07 @ 09:00 PM on History (please check your
> local listing)
>
So, they also dropped the marijuana-AFT there too? Here in
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> No it's no - the UN and African Union have peace-keeping operations in
> Darfur. They're underfunded and undereffective, but that's not "tacit
> approval".
>
OTOH, I had already read that Africa would collapse due to the AIDS
pandemic, and it seems that it's happening right
David Land wrote:
>
> Right. As everyone knows, Mexico is a great power that is poised to
> take over the entire Southern tier of the United States. And those
> damned Canadians have been quietly biding their time since the
> American revolution, lying in wait for just the right moment to
> arrive.
Dan M. wrote:
>
>> As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.
>> In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America
>> 'Disintegrates' in 2010
>
> I read this a few weeks ago and got a good chuckle out of it. It shows
> than Americans aren't the only ones wh
Euan Ritchie wrote:
>
>> It's depressingly cold here in the (alleged) tropics.
>> We miss the days when temperature was 40.
>
> Yesterday was the Summer solstice here in the South Pacific and the day
> before was cold - only 6 degrees celsius.
>
> Global warming harumph.
>
The science-deniers at Co
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> Still in the 60s here, though I've already closed
> the windows. Expected to be in the upper 30s by
> morning, and maybe as low as 20 (°F, for Alberto,
> et. al.) Monday or Tuesday morning . . .
>
It's depressingly cold here in the (alleged) tropics.
We miss the days w
Wayne Eddy wrote:
>>
>> Cyprus was full of them working bar, waiting, or worse being exploited
>> in strip clubs. (It wasn't like London where an attractive woman could
>> make good money doing "exotic dancing" a couple of times a week -
>> these girls were often being forced to have sex with custo
Dan M. wrote:
>
>> I would have thought that a low birth rate is very very good
>> evidence of being part of the first world.
>
> It does have that in common with the first world. But, the life expectancy
> of both men and women in every age catagory is less than it was 40 years
> ago.
>
And how c
There is another metaphor from fiction that would seem to apply,
from the Douglas Adams series The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
In book #3 (I think), our heroes find themselves on the “C Ark”
from Golgafrincham, carrying the entire planet’s supply of
“middle-men, managers, accou
Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> Wikipedia probably has an article on the subject. Try searching on
> "democracy."
>
Found it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy#The_Bush_Administration
Oops, the page was vandalized :-(
Alberto Monteiro
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Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> If someone _physically_ attacks one of my kids or my wife (all
> hypothetical atm), they may find themselves suddenly with one or
> several surplus body openings in whatever caliber I can lay my hands
> on at the time . . .
>
So, your kid (or wife) is playing with a 4-y
John Williams wrote:
>
> Did you make any posts predicting the housing crisis before, say,
> 2004?
>
I did. Unfortunately, I can't find the post where I predicted it.
But I always predict disasters, so it's not surprising that
sometimes I'm right.
Cassandra Monteiro
John Williams wrote:
>
> I think that heroin addicts should use drugs responsibly. I think
> anybody does. Let's give the addicts a plentiful suppy of heroin and
> hope they behave!
>
I don't like to feed the trolls, but this time I think you crossed the
line.
Comparing government expending with h
> How's Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion?
>
Who fscking cares?
AFAIK, in the past 100 years, only _two_ elected politicians proceeded
according to what they promised. The other one is bolivian Evo Morales.
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Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> thanks for the correction, alberto. what part of the netherlands is
> holland?
>
The most important part: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, etc are in Holland.
Now there are two: Northern Holland and Southern Holland.
> is it correct to call natives of the netherlands,
> Ever notice that Sarah Palin anagrams to "Sharia plan."
> So, clearly, she's the one who plans to institute Muslim
> law in the United States. Other anagrams include:
> a sharp nail a plain rash. Any chance of a numeralogical
> match with 666? Pleze?
>
Numerology is an easy science!
S
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> A Democratic congress will tax the wealthy and redistribute the
> wealth to the poor and middle class.
>
> If McCain wins he will continue GOP policies of subsidizing the corporate
> state and cutting social programs. Jon
>
This is something I don't understand. If Obama is
Was there any advance in the credit/lawsuit/whatever related to the
rip-off movie The Core? I was editing the Portuguese Wikipedia article
about it, and I would like to know if there is any hard data (references,
frex) about it.
The English Wikipedia article only mentions that it was ripped off (r
Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> I'm not sure exactly what David B.'s attitude is toward the other list, but
> he is subscribed, albeit filtered, to this one. David only sees messages
> whose subject starts "Brin:".
>
Not counting times when He uses a sock puppet just to see if we
are still worshipping Him
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> I agree, but only because the economic collapse has actually made it likely
> that he will be elected. I still would have preferred that Obama picked a
> qualified Hispanic woman for his VP. Jon
>
Like, say, J-Lo?
Alberto Monteiro
PS: fwiw, here's the uncyclopedia page
Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> It's like the people running around accusing Obama of being a Muslim --
> it's inaccurate, but they may have been lied to by people who want to turn
> opinion against Obama, and not be intending to lie.
>
That would be the perfect conspiracy theory, following the
Bush-is-
Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>
> At this point I cannot rule out some stupid technical problem, like a
> message that got caught in a queue somewhere and just now shook loose.
> It *does* happen sometimes.
>
No, I think he means that the financial system crashed because
the USA abandoned God and became
I'm watching the news, and among the economical disasters (which
reached Brazil - interest rates, that were immorally high before
the crisis, are even higher), there are good news.
The Jubarte whales found out that the coast of Sergipe, BR, is a
whale sanctuary (as all brazilian coast - enforcing
John Williams wrote:
>
>> I am making it simple. There ain't no options. Just buy or (short) sell.
>
> Oversimplifying, and missing obvious ways to make money. Typical of
> people who think they know better how to spend other people's money.
>
Goodbye. I won't waste my time with Trolls.
Alberto Mo
John Williams wrote:
>
>> Imagine that you, me, and a few other stupid guys believe that
>> some stock prices will go up tomorrow by 10%. What should we do?
>
> Not enough information. What probability will they go up by 10%. What
> are other possible outcomes and probabilities? How much money do
>
Dan M wrote:
>
> With all due respect, so what? Most people prefer drilling everywhere over
> $4.00 gasoline. And, the Republicans are winning that argument...the polls
> show a massive preference now to drill to bring down the prices.
>
Right now, this is one of the two arguments I (internally)
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> Just think of how many children's' lives in Africa could be saved with the
> resources used to support the world's first surviving set of septuplets,
> born in Des Moines, Iowa to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey. (...)
>
So you believe that the logic of capitalism should be use
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
>> When it's split between crazy creationists in one side
>> and mass murdering atheist baby killers on the other, I
>> think I side with the creationists.
>
> That is not thinking, Alberto, that is feeling!~) I unequivocally side
> with the mass murdering atheists!~).
>
I
William T Goodall wrote:
>
> That assumes there aren't crazy religionists trying to play the system
> to promote their superstitious pernicious garbage.
>
When it's split between crazy creationists in one side and
mass murdering atheist baby killers on the other side, I think
I side with the creati
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
>>> I bow down to the Chinese volleyball girls,
>>
>> Err... They were blasted 3 x 0 by the Brazilian volleyball
>> girls :-P
>
> missed that, congrats to brazil!~)
>
It was the first time the girls won the gold medal. They didn't
even win it at the Pan american games, her
David Brin wrote:
>
> But of course I am distracted by the elections, hoping
> we'll at last save America and civilization from a
> criminal gang. (What we're seeing -- including the
> outright and direct theft of half a trillion dollars
> -- goes far beyond regular issues of mere left or
> right.
William T Goodall quoted:
>
> "World History and Cultures in Christian Perspective
> This well-researched text stands on the conviction that God is the
> Creator of the world and the Controller of history.
>
(...)
and concluded:
>
> These people are mad Maru
>
And yet, if _we_ are right (i.e., Ev
Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
> and replenish the earth, and subdue it." surely you don't believe that
> gawd created man to have dominion over every living thing that moves on the
> earth?
>
OTOH, if this command should be take
Olin Elliott wrote:
>
> What's really scary about this is that rejecting evolution requires
> rejecting the entire framework of modern science,
>
I must disagree. It requires the freedom of religious belief.
When you believe in a God that is good and respectful, you
automatically must believe that
William T Goodall wrote:
>
> With almost no new TV until September I've started peeling the
> cellophane from my complete box sets of _Alias_ for my first watch-
> through since it ended. Two disks into s1 so far :-) The number of
> actors from other shows I watch is remarkable though. Sarah Shahi
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>
> Kind of a hydrogen hydrate then? :D
>
No, because there is no unionized hydrogen. It could
be a hydric acid hydrate (or hydrous acid hydrate?) or
a oxygenydric acid hydrate.
Alberto Monteiro (never sure about those hellysh _y_s - we
don't use them yn Portuguese)
William T Goodall wrote:
>
> Seems a bit pointless since it just discourages me from trying to read
> his posts at all.
>
/me too. I usually ignore messages that are badly quoted. Some
of them I even delete without opening (too many messages to read,
not worth the time)
Alberto Monteiro
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Dan M. wrote:
>
>> I guess the USA rate would be close to 1.5 if it were not for mexicans
>
> It would be just above if the Hispanics were not included. The rates are
>
> 2.9 Hispanic
> 2.0 Non-Hispanic black
> 1.8 Non-Hispanic white
> 1.9 Asian, Pacific Islander
> 1.7 Native Americans
>
Not
Dan M. wrote:
>
> I don't really think the fact that the US has a ZPG fertility rate of 2.1
> while Europe and Japan are at 1.5 and 1.22, respectively is the result of
> Japanese women being the most liberated of the three developed
> countries/ecconomic unions.
>
BTW, Brazil's low ZPG fertility r
Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> The moon. The frakkin' moon.
>
> By what they said in dialogue at one point, I figured it was waning. Then
> when we saw it on the screen, it was waxing.
>
> Do they need to hire someone who understands the phases of the moon there?
>
The idiocy of script writers spoiled
William T Goodall wrote:
>
> So we don't really know how available some minerals are until we start
> looking for them harder?
>
It happened with oil and gas. Brazil was considered with no oil back in
the 1930s - they were almost right, considering the technology of the time.
Probably the UK and N
Kevin B. O'Brien blasphemed:
>
>> Or does IAAMOAC mean that civilized behavior includes throwing
>> other people under the wheels in order to save themselves?
>
> I don't recognize the acronym you used,
>
WHAT??? You herectic scum!
Alberto Monteiro
PS: "I am a member of a
Dan M wrote:
>
> I'd guess $75, because of the fall of the dollar, but with the big Brazil
> findand the fact that two countries with tremendous reserves (Venezuela
> and Iraq) are marginal producers for political reasons.
>
Only Venezuela and Iraq? What about Nigeria, Iran, Russia, Alaska...
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> Which brings us righ back to the dirty little secret of the
> environmental movement: that the real underlying problem is that
> there are by about an order of magnitude just too darn many people
> already, particularly darker-complected ones with no money who don't
>
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
>> Seriously, if we want to save the planet, domestic solar power should
>> be banned! People should live and work in the smallest possible area,
>> and it means packing families in huge buildings.
>
> Solar hot water, not solar electric. Black pipes in a glass cabinet on
> th
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> Yeah. The point of solar hot water is it's so cheap, and pays for
> itself very quickly (3 - 5 years) if it's installed in a new house. So
> while it'll never amount to a huge percentage, it's still an
> inexpensive way of saving a significant amount of energy. So, like
> ma
Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> So... I "upgraded" to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of
> what I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have
> succeeded in making it harder to use.
>
And you don't even have to handle the mistranslations of the commands.
The idiots that tran
Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> Petrol in Melbourne is now $1.51 a litre (USD1.43 a litre, or about
> $5.70 a gallon).
>
"Petrol" (gasoline) in Rio de Janeiro is now (and for many months)
about R$ 2.70 a litre (about USD 1.625 a litre), of which 25% is
ethanol and 50% are taxes. And food prices are rising
Keith wrote:
>
>> Alberto 'oil rulez, fsck space!' Monteiro
>
> Completely correct. But what do you do when you run out of oil? Try
> this web site.
>
> http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm
>
We will *never* run out of oil. It's more likely that we will run
out of oxygen in the air :-P
> The pa
Dan M wrote:
>
> The trick is, as it always has been, to lower launch costs. Unfortunately,
> even in inflation adjusted dollars, launch costs haven't dropped much over
> the past 40 years.
>
Maybe even if launch costs were _zero_, orbital power satellites could
still have a negative energy net pr
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> I think that's one of the best responses anyone has ever made to one
> of WTG's posts on religion. Well worth repeating, also . . .
>
OTOH, being as far from muslims as possible, I think that message
is scaring.
AGW, Dengue and Muslims Maru
Alberto Monteiro
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Wayne Eddy wrote:
>
> I have enjoyed all the Uplift novels, but ever since I first read Startide,
> I have been waiting for a sequel that shed some light on the fate of the
> crew of the skiff.
>
There are many hints in _Heaven's Reach_ about that fate. For example,
there's a description of Tom's
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> Firefox may be a satisfactory browser but I am quite
> disappointed in the lack of functionality of Thunderbird as a mail
> client compared with Eudora, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has any
> (obviously, non-M$) recommendations?
>
This is so insane. If you don't like
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7308102.stm
>
> "Genes show Latin America's past
>
> Results from a genetic study of Latin America suggest most Latin
> Americans are descended from European men and Native American or
> African women.
> Scientists say the study, said to be the largest of
Life After People will air on 2008-03-10 21:00 on brazilian's
tetrahydrocanabiol oops... The History Channel.
Alberto Monteiro
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Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> Well, if there had been anyone across the street *to* see on one of the
> recent windy days (as if we got any other kind right here?), they would
> have told you I wasn't a proper Scotsman. Take that however you like. :)
>
OTOH, here in Brazil we are experiencing a quite
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
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> I'd like to see you go for a week's worth of posts without once
> mentioning religion. Think you could manage that kind of a challenge?
>
I will pray for William so that he may resist this temptation.
Alberto Monteiro
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Deborah Harrell wrote:
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> Hmm, no parallels to global warming and certain
> researchers either... The possible link between crime
> and lead levels is intriguing; articles on lead's
> harmful effects particularly WRT children have been
> posted previously, so I won't add any.
>
>
I am curious ab
Doug Pensinger wrote:
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> But McCain has been quoted as saying he wouldn't mind if we stayed there
> for another hundred years and talks about surrender as if there was someone
> to surrender to. We keep hearing Viet Nam analogies about what might
> happen if we leave precipitously (though other V
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> So how many people expect that Fidel Castro won't live out the
> week? The month?
>
Is He alive?
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Dan M wrote:
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> 1) Neli told me at Christmas that she got word from home (Zambia) that the
> EU is threatening a withholding of funding if Zambia does not stop the
> spraying of house walls with DDT to prevent malaria.
>
> 2) This technique has been demonstrated in South Africa and shown on this
>
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