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Yes. This is why we must strive to make our prisons as humane as possible. Naturalistic fallacy followed by an appeal to tradition. People were cruel when the constitution was written. Governments have enacted horrendous punishments on criminals throughout history. It was not uncommon for a...

The death penalty should not exist. It is wrong for anyone to kill anyone else, especially the government, especially a civilian, especially in a criminal case. The state does not have the right, nor the responsibility, to murder one of its own citizens for disobeying rules. The only legal...

I have this exact condition! I didn't know it was so common, judging from the comments on this board. It terrifies me whenever it happens, and it usually happens when I'm sick and have a fever. It's like, all of the sudden you feel like you're very small/large, and it seems like everything is...

1700's ships versus futuristic soldiers of the apocalypse?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1eFdUSnaQM&feature=player_embedded

Lol at American Flag ocean and firefighters in the sky. The patriotism displayed in 2001 (when this song was made) is truly frightening.

Phew. That's a relief.

I really can't stand flat keyboards. I especially can't stand keyboards with flat keys. I need keyboards with giant palm rests and huge, clicky keys with a lot of feedback -- but none of that ergonomic crap.

I miss NS!!! Will buy.

Overpopulation is not a good reason to explore Mars. Mass emigration to Mars is not feasible with any foreseeable technology. If Mars is to be settled, it will be settled by fewer than 100 people at an extreme expense.

When else are we going to do it? We should have done it in the 70's or 80's.

Hence the assumed fixed 2,000 calories of expenditure. This expenditure would actually decrease to match the food intake, as you said -- which necessitates exercise to make up for the loss in metabolism.

You also have to take into account that our ultimate goal of manned missions is to place a colony on Mars. We cannot properly prepare for a colony if we simply send robots. We must send people to gauge the long-term habitability of the planet and also the viability of our equipment there. There...

The sun is made up of 98% ionized plasma (that is, simply protons and neutrons, with free electrons). The sun makes up 99.86% of the mass of the solar system. So, as a lower bound, about 97.8% of the total mass of the solar system. That isn't to say the sun is completely without electrons, the...

Here is a little thought experiment for you: Suppose you eat a perfectly "balanced diet" of exactly 2,000 calories. Suppose you expend 2,000 calories per day simply by being alive and doing excercise. Now, suppose you continue to eat a perfectly "balanced diet" of exactly 2,100 calories, and...

No. For instance, neutron radiation, plasma, and alpha particles do not contain electrons.

^Disregard Everything this man just said ^ Weight loss is a function of calorie intake versus expenditure. You can reduce your intake, increase your expenditure, or both. Increasing your expenditure without decreasing your intake is less effective than both increasing your expenditure AND...

That's possible, but it might also be using a plasma engine like VASMIR, or some other electric propulsion method. Something tells me the Russians have developed plans for the reactor and the ship design, but lack designs on the engine.

The article is a bit weak, so I did some more research. Previous Russian nuclear rocket design proposals involved nuclear thermal engines, which superheat hydrogen gas in a reactor and eject it out the rocket nozzle. The design of this rocket, on the other hand, is to simply generate power...

It doesn't matter what Anime did to me anymore ... the wounds are too deep to heal. What matters is what I'm going to do to it. :cool: