/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3968899
>You play the lottery, right? You seem the type.
My grandmother plays it and I detest her playing it.

>All of that is not even vaporware, since there are no serious proposals to construct any of that. Sure, pasty-white basement Miltons like you are proposing it, but the rest of us live in that thing called "REALITY" where such things are never proposed and never will be proposed, much less built.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Valkyrie
This particular spacecraft was shown in the movie Avatar as well. You'll have to ask Colonel Coffee on the details of it, but I believe Pellegrino actually has blueprints to construct such a ship.

>Humanity never believed in spaceflight,
The Apollo program would like to have a word with you. Also Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Richard Garriot, John Carmack, and all the other millionaires/billionaires who actually have sound proposals for making spaceflight profitable. Baby steps, got to learn how to walk well before you run.

>When Humanity gets to a certain point on the technology scale, it becomes incapable of taking risks. PERIOD. So what you're depending on, automatically become undependable.
I'd love to see the source where you got this absolute rule of civilization.

>>3493164
A question, do you look both ways before crossing a street?

>>3493170
If there is a treatment that allows them to live at least dozens of times longer, I would say that my use of 'unnecessarily premature' was okay.

>>2878194

I almost bought it.

>>2746300
Fancy classrooms like in Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

>steroids
>transhumanism


Also,
>glasses
>tele/microscope
>pacemaker
>hearing aids
>more recently, bionic eyes, ears, limbs controlled by brain

>>2275576

I personally believe there should be far more public-sector funding of research & development and in a transparent way rather than inefficiently funnelling billions through a corrupt and immoral military-industrial complex.

I mean the point of Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative ("Star Wars") program was never that it would work -it doesn't and won't-, it was a way of simultaneously enriching military contractors who are either former-military personnel or lobbyists but also a form of Military Keynesianism to develop faster computers and better optics. There are actually more reasons for this institutional construct, if you want I can go into it further.

Japan actually has a government board that makes far more efficient investments into research & development and it really shows.

TL; DR: In Amerika, everything is fucked!

>>2228774
We have no means of automation, at least not until we get back to the mainland.

Patachu, I usually like you, but damn, what you just said was downright ignorant.

>did humans are different to animals

>>1296391
There will always be people with more power. The thing is, it's a pretty shitty deal if BP's CEO has more power than this guy that is doing amazing shit in some science study because of his amount of money. Power should be based on different criteria, you see?

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