/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3991855
I'm thinking Zubrin's being a little paranoid. NASA's budget is getting downsized, which is a colossal tragedy in and of itself, but I doubt they'd scrap it. NASA has netted the US Treasury something like eight times more than all of NASA's funding ever, just off the profits of patents they hold.

Question, would having a really outspoken president in massive favor of increasing funding to science, infrastructure, education and healthcare (single-payer) and anti-war improve or fuck up America's economy? My notion is improve, but I'd like to hear any arguments.

>>3970612
>In other words, you're moving the industrial practices of consumer electronics (emphasis on CONSUMPTION, meaning said products are used and then thrown away while still operational) onto everything. That's wrong. But then, that takes knowledge of ECONOMICS, which all /sci/tards like yourself reject like religion... making anti-ECONOMIC views of the world simply YOUR FUCKING RELIGION.
Distills down to:
>MY VIEW IS ECONOMIC YOURS IS NON-ECONOMIC AND LIKE RELIGION

>While you sit there believing in Santa Claus, the world's economies are shivering from the ever rising expense of petroleum, and there's no backup plan at all for our infrastructures.
So why are you here bitching at us and not screaming bloody Mary at every congressman or member of office you can find if you're so obsessed with this problem?

>Since such systems (by ECONOMICS) can't run on any other fuel [petroleum] extant [?], then those systems will start to collapse.
Says you.

>After all, nothing whatsoever replaces petroleum.
Except, y'know...
Biofuels...
Electric cars...with battery energy densities comparable to gasoline yet run on highly-efficient electric motors...
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/deliberate-incompetence-makes-for-better-lithium-air-bat
teries.ars
Liquid Fluoride Thorium reactors and the fuels they can produce from waste heat...
Y'know, stuff like that which weans us off our dependence and makes the transition a little smoother. Will a few million die from starvation and turmoil caused by scarce oil indirectly? Yes. It's doing it right now. It'll likely get a little worse. But we can get through it because we know how, and when something bites our ass hard we get into gear.

>>3805243
I really like it, and it's especially awesome that it roughly spelled 'physics'

>>3767308
And what sucks about them?

http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/forever-young/manhattan-beach-project-end-aging-2029

http://www.ted.com/themes/might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer.html

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/sierra-sciences-working-towards.html

http://www.sens.org/sens-research/research-themes

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972#

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-biologists-yeast-cells-reverse-aging.html

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-dna-reverse-premature-aging.html

>MFW If I can get it up I'll have to keep slight artificial scarcity much like diamonds in order to make it profitable and wipe out all other mining competitors with my unbeatable prices

>>3130791
I've been thinking about that. It's just that I'm worried that two hundred years later the TRS will have devolved almost into modern America due to the people who have vested interests in the monetary system gaining a lot of power to influence the fruits of the TRS to go to them.

But there will definitely be something like that.

>>3078805
Glad to hear of it. Are you talking about the modified technocracy I propose or another?

>>2984812
Actually I really fucking hate the idea of no possessions in the way the Venus Project set it out. I prefer Manna's approach to private property.

>>2917826
>The designs for telephone system
>The designs for simple Turing-complete computers
>The designs for rockets
>Not possible with c. 1811 technology.
I know, I'll just leave a note saying these will be the most influential technologies in the future and to be on the look out for people that may be able to bring these projects to fruition.

I would've still sped up scientific progress by at least a good decade.

I'm listening to Ode to the Brain right the fuck now.
Also no, this just proves all smart people need to move to Mars and let Earth fuck itself over.

>>2822560
That would be a pretty good way, unfortunately we'll have to wait until at least 2030 to begin testing.

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SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
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block and suppress
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You are educated evil,
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can learn that 4 corner
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all Cube Truth denied.
Dumb ass educators fear
me and hide from debate.
They are paid to teach a propaganda book - not
Cube Truth - for which
they would be fired. Evil
teachers betray students,
as ONE is a Death Value.
Cube 4x4 voids 1 & God.

>>2801041
First off, a magnetosphere isn't even really required on Mars; any thick atmosphere that it has will not dissapate any meaningful amount for thousands upon thousands of years. As for radiation for people, with Mars' lower gravity the atmosphere is also correspondingly two and a half times thicker giving more of a radiation blanket. And of course there is the fact that it receives less than half of the sunlight/heat/radiation than the Earth.

As for generating a magnetosphere, I would suppose it would beam energy down to the north and south pole where underground superconductors create an albeit weak but sufficient magnetic field for Mars.

>>2669859

Americans are so stupid. They hope that their space programme is able to reach other planets to siphon oil, and bring it back to Earth; at least, that's what the commoners are taught. All this time they forget about nature... Obviously there are Jews on the moon.

>>2641841
Nah. Any password you want. If you mean you can't figure out how to redeem your code... I think you go to your profile (create account on minecraft.net) and then enter the code there. Not sure.
>>2641846
I'm currently acting as server mod on my server which as some /sci/entists on it.
>>2641637

A commemorative 1967 - 2067 Man on the Moon nanobot and a turd particle from the the surface of a skin cell in your asscrack that's gone through Photoshop's grayscale colour filter.

>>2622895
>doesn't think about what is going to happen in the future
Also TRS doesn't exist yet, and there is the very real possibility that it will never exist. However, I am not going to sit here and not try.

1 - I like the aims of the Venus Project, but not all of the methods. Very naive view on how crime should be treated. The shit they're talking about wouldn't be applicable for another 100 years.
2 - n/a
3 - n/a
4 - n/a
5 - Bitch, I'm the main proponent of the TRS. At least I acknowledge we do not have enough support and technology to do it right now.

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>>2316163
Do you have any problem with weed smokers or robotrippers if they do so in moderation without harming you or shitting you off?