jiroemon1897 posted:Anyway.. lets discuss the fact that Goofy, a dog, "owns" Pluto, also a dog
http://newhorizonsministries.net/
swampman posted:jiroemon1897 posted:Anyway.. lets discuss the fact that Goofy, a dog, "owns" Pluto, also a dog
Relevance? Your honor? Sustained? Mods?
They're...they're almost certainly dead by now.
Soviet_Salami posted:Wow. I'm sorry to hear that.
They're...they're almost certainly dead by now.
its actually quite warm in there to protect the electronics i read that on the blog of that naked autistic hypersexual lady who lives in a hole in the ground in the woods in new hampshire. i am not lying
littlegreenpills posted:its actually quite warm in there to protect the electronics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG , also see sig, lol
-Icy
-Severe
-Serene
-Scarred (with Cratered to place and Pockmarked to show)
-Quiet
-Ghetto
-Virgin
-Plutoid
domn posted:zzzz. wake me up when we get to namek
Hey instead of posting, Why don't you go rot in fucking hell and fucking die before you think about posting even one time ever the fuck again, you fucked dickhole. Threadshitting within punity of this thread will no longer be tolerated. Not now. Not this time. I will not let you fucking fuckbutts ruin New Horizons for me. I am going to see the surface of Pluto and going to be happy for once in the first million years of my stupid fucking life and there is nothing you or your host of two-faced schlemiels can fuck up about it
domn posted:zzzz. wake me up when we get to namek
aerdil posted:north korea is being mocked by western media at the moment for announcing that they developed a cure for AIDS, Ebola, SARS, and MERS with an immune system boosting drug developed with ginseng grown in fertilizer infused with rare-earth metals. first cuba with a cancer cure, now north korea with an AIDS cure. despite the scoffing of imperialist pigs, i'm pretty sure this shows the inevitable power of socialist science and juche ideology.
WOW hermit KINGDOM so INSANE
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201506/news18/20150618-26ee.html
it seems to be a russian website, maybe it's a franchise with production facilities in n korea?
Panopticon posted:the capitalists want to capture space so they have new colonies that need capital investment. space proletarians, you have nothing to lose but your space chains
I move that we issue a declaration that lends critical support for the National Liberation Struggle of the Principality of Zeon and endorses a policy of revolutionary defeatism vis-à-vis the Federation-Klingon War.
Set against some of the biggest sci-fi franchises of the last five years, many of which imagine the future as a wreckage in which the strong prey relentlessly upon the weak, “Star Trek” can seem kind of quaint. After all, the show, especially in its second and strongest incarnation, “The Next Generation,” takes place in a time when, essentially, everything has worked out.
But it is precisely this quality that interests Manu Saadia, the author of “Trekonomics,” a forthcoming book about the economics of the “Star Trek” universe. The book, which grew in part out of conversations between Mr. Saadia and his friend Chris Black, a former writer for “Star Trek: Enterprise,” will be sold through the publishing platform Inkshares. It examines “Star Trek’”s “post-economic” system, in which money no longer exists and anything you want can be made in a replicator, essentially for free.
When everything is free, said Mr. Saadia, objects will no longer be status symbols. Success will be measured in achievements, not in money: “You need to build up your reputation, you need to be a fantastic person, you need to be the captain.” People will work hard to reach those goals, even though they don’t need a paycheck to live.
Felix Salmon, a senior editor at Fusion whose imprint at Inkshares will publish “Trekonomics,” says not everyone would strive for greatness in a post-money economy. In general, society might look more like present-day New Zealand, which he sees as less work-obsessed than the United States: “You work to live rather than the other way round.”
In a time of rising inequality and stagnating wages, a world where everyone’s needs are met and people only work if they feel like it seems pretty far away. But, said Mr. Saadia, a post-scarcity economy is actually far more within reach than the technological advances for which “Star Trek” is better known. Warp drive isn’t coming any time soon, if ever, he explained, but wealthy retirees today already live an essentially post-money existence, “traveling and exploring and deepening their understanding of the world and being generally happy.”
If productivity growth continues, he believes there will be much more wealth to go around in a few hundred years’ time. Whether those gains will be distributed equally is an open question. But for Mr. Saadia, “Star Trek” offers a way of imagining what would happen to life and work if they were.
The function of science fiction, he said, “is not so much to predict the future,” but “to provoke a critical reflection on the present.” And maybe understanding Trekonomics can help us consider what it would take to bring about a world where technological advances allowed everyone to lead comfortable and meaningful lives, rather than enriching a lucky few. If nothing else, it’s a great excuse for watching “Star Trek.”
stegosaurus posted:Why isn't this thing in an orbit around Pluto. Is that impossible or something. We're getting like 1 hour of time to take picture after like a decade of traveling
It's moving at something like 13.8 kilometers per second, more than ten times faster than Pluto's escape velocity. So why don't you tell me how we slow it down smartass.
swampman posted:stegosaurus posted:Why isn't this thing in an orbit around Pluto. Is that impossible or something. We're getting like 1 hour of time to take picture after like a decade of traveling
It's moving at something like 13.8 kilometers per second, more than ten times faster than Pluto's escape velocity. So why don't you tell me how we slow it down smartass.
Tie it to your mother.
littlegreenpills posted:heliocentrism is reactionary. smash the observatories, send astronomers down to the countryside. ha ha nerds
Hence, if we consider the various movements of the spheres, we will see that it is not possible for the world-machine to have as a fixed and immovable center, either our perceptible earth or air or fire or any other thing. For, with regard to motion, we do not come to an unqualifiedly minimum, i.e., a fixed center. Hence the world does not have a fixed circumference....
*Suddenly, a Wild Cycle of Reformation and Counter-Reformation Appears*
swampman posted:http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com//2015/07/10/a-star-trek-future-might-be-closer-than-we-think/
Set against some of the biggest sci-fi franchises of the last five years, many of which imagine the future as a wreckage in which the strong prey relentlessly upon the weak, “Star Trek” can seem kind of quaint. After all, the show, especially in its second and strongest incarnation, “The Next Generation,” takes place in a time when, essentially, everything has worked out.
But it is precisely this quality that interests Manu Saadia, the author of “Trekonomics,” a forthcoming book about the economics of the “Star Trek” universe. The book, which grew in part out of conversations between Mr. Saadia and his friend Chris Black, a former writer for “Star Trek: Enterprise,” will be sold through the publishing platform Inkshares. It examines “Star Trek’”s “post-economic” system, in which money no longer exists and anything you want can be made in a replicator, essentially for free.
When everything is free, said Mr. Saadia, objects will no longer be status symbols. Success will be measured in achievements, not in money: “You need to build up your reputation, you need to be a fantastic person, you need to be the captain.” People will work hard to reach those goals, even though they don’t need a paycheck to live.
Felix Salmon, a senior editor at Fusion whose imprint at Inkshares will publish “Trekonomics,” says not everyone would strive for greatness in a post-money economy. In general, society might look more like present-day New Zealand, which he sees as less work-obsessed than the United States: “You work to live rather than the other way round.”
In a time of rising inequality and stagnating wages, a world where everyone’s needs are met and people only work if they feel like it seems pretty far away. But, said Mr. Saadia, a post-scarcity economy is actually far more within reach than the technological advances for which “Star Trek” is better known. Warp drive isn’t coming any time soon, if ever, he explained, but wealthy retirees today already live an essentially post-money existence, “traveling and exploring and deepening their understanding of the world and being generally happy.”
If productivity growth continues, he believes there will be much more wealth to go around in a few hundred years’ time. Whether those gains will be distributed equally is an open question. But for Mr. Saadia, “Star Trek” offers a way of imagining what would happen to life and work if they were.
The function of science fiction, he said, “is not so much to predict the future,” but “to provoke a critical reflection on the present.” And maybe understanding Trekonomics can help us consider what it would take to bring about a world where technological advances allowed everyone to lead comfortable and meaningful lives, rather than enriching a lucky few. If nothing else, it’s a great excuse for watching “Star Trek.”
ill 3D print the socialist pamphlets