Cairo Jim

Since a fair few people have seen The Hobbit recently, I found this pic this morning.

On the other hand, spending ridiculous amounts of money and time just to bring that one asteroid might not necessarily drop the price of gold and platinum straight away. One factor of the cost of producing anything is how long and how much it cost to produce and or acquire the resources.

you couldn't achieve more easily by building orbital space colonies and mining asteroids

The moon and Mars' higher gravity would make construction and livability a lot easier, as well as Mars being a lot closer to more asteroids for mining.

The obvious problem with a space elevator (besides building the thing) is how to keep it from collapsing.

 

How tall would be built? There isn't anything can really you attach it to.

Yes, it would be faster if rockets constantly burned fuel instead of coasting much of the way, but propulsion isn't really the problem. Fuel is. If you want to burn a ton of fuel, you have to send up a spacecraft with a ton of fuel. All that fuel is heavy and you have to add more fuel and bigger rockets to get out of Earth's gravity well. Except now you've added even more weight, which means more fuel.

 

Jetting around space is easy if you're patient. It's getting to space with enough gas to do anything that's hard.

 

Fuel is part of any form of propulsion or locomotion, or any sort of motion. Improving the propulsion would not only help go a wee bit faster, but also fuel efficiency would come into it somewhere. Less fuel needed plus faster engines, anyone?

Patience with jetting around space is fine if you think you can live for 2 or 300 years.

It would be nice if they cane develop a decent propulsion system while they're at it. It seems and awful amount of fuel is used just to get out of atmosphere, and once in space it takes months, sometimes years just to get seemingly small distances.

I seen The Hobbit the other day. So far, it's the only Lord of the Rings movie that I liked and didn't fall asleep watching.

I just misread the quote in that last post as "I stabbed my toe". Was confused.

Happy New Years people.

I would like to take part in another AIMHack, since the only one I was involved in was sadly cut short. Although lately, I haven't had the time since my newest job involves 12-15 hour days, including a tiny bit of travel time.

I got to sit in my room and drink all day, for lack of anything better to do.

Do you suppose that the real universe is a remake?

The universe is a lie. The lie is a lie. Unacceptance is irrelevant. Resistance is futile.

If someone has sufficient imagination, then they could possibly come with a few variations. All within reason though. You have to consider some sort of balance. As a brand new shiny party you aren't going to fighting in the Ragnorak or anything, so generally you aren't going to have anything to strenuous to fight, nor are you going to have overpower armour and weapons to start with.

If you cant find me for the next 3 days, you might find me at the tavern.

I'll see you there then, if I haven't already

This is true, but in order for it to be logically relevant, you need to point out an important difference. You have not.

 

 

The point was that the gun control measures in Australia gave a real sense of security, not a false one. And real security, while we're at it, which is more important: gun crime in fact plummeted.

This I can agree with partially. It is extremely difficult to get a gun in the first place due to licencing laws in Australia, and they are never sought after as something stupid as "self defence".

Australia isn't America. Personally, I admire the United States for valuing freedom over a false sense of security. If people in the U.S.A don't like guns, then don't buy them. If they don't like living around people with guns, move to a gun free area. Expecting people to give up a freedom enshrined in their Constitution simply to make you feel a little bit safer is the high of tyranny. Demanding otherwise law-abiding citizens to hand in their firearms when government enforcers are armed to the teeth stinks of hypocrisy.

It's that million year old right to own a gun that is getting people armed to the teeth and scared silly in the first place. It's that ridiculous that if someone has a rock thrown at them while sitting on their front balcony, that just "have the need" to own and AK-47 for "self defence", and all because they have the right to. Its the same mentality that people can just walk into K-Mart, buy all their ammo and then go rampaging.

brocktree please stay out of politics threads and stick to posting useful and interesting things about games

Whatever you do, stop winging over nothing.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out the window. On that note, throw yours out the window and find something more useful. I heard hammers are pretty useful.

If that was the the case, Thuryl would have 2 geese, one for the apocalypse and one for Christmas. I'd love to see what she does for New years.

 

 

—Alorael, who can understand wanting to hunt. It's a right worth preserving. He can understand wanting to be able to defend oneself.

I can understand the hunting thing. There's a few guys I work with that do it when they can. Although they do own a couple rifles, they are still dumbfounded at how anyone could bear themselves in the U.S to walk into a school armed to the teeth. As for self defence, you don't need a weapon. I did Taekwon Do for about 3 years, and since there were always kids attending the classes, we were always told that running away is your best defence.

Someone remind me, which colour crayon are we up to?

Ik verstaan u niet. winks.

That sounds interesting. I'll have to remember that.

I can without problems English sentences write. The word order correctly to choose, find I very easy!

 

Is that you, Yoda?

 

2012, especially, has been a really good year for music so far.

 

I'll have to disagree with this. There's very little from the last 10 years that I like, and its seeming to get worse.

I could of sworn I heard something about it being today. Could of just been my imagination.

Wow, I musn't be paying much attention today. First Melbourne Cup (which I don't care about anyways) and this. I completely forgot or something about both until after it happened.

This.

 

 

Except for Geneforge 3 Exile.

FYT.