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In his blueprint for the future, SOCOM 2020, Admiral McRaven has touted the globalization of U.S. special ops as a means to “project power, promote stability, and prevent conflict.”....
So.... THAT'S why they've been practicing on all us US Citizens! No, wait. That was the Johnny-Soldier wanna be guys, the fake tough guys on the swat teams that break down the doors and do druggie busts. I think what he's actually talking about is some kind of mercenary mindset. Maybe a country buys some fighter jets from us, they are our "friend", and we help their leaders out with some special-ops jobs on their enemies. Maybe they could be sent out on missions from the UN against those nasty climate change deniers? LOL... |
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Chinese rockets don't, and US rockets don't, and French rockets don't....
The RD-180 powers the Atlas V rocket, the main launch vehicle used to get US military and civil payloads into space. That's true at the moment, although not in the past and quite likely not in the future. As the referenced article states:
One of the things Americans may dislike very much indeed is a possible ban on the sale of RD-180 engines to the US under a contract with Russian manufacturer NPO Energomash. The RD-180 powers the Atlas V rocket, the main launch vehicle used to get US military and civil payloads into space.In other words, Congress is likely to require compliance with law previously enacted which means the Russian motor and launch services are not legal. The RD180 is a very nice engine due to it's burning two fuels: hydrogen and kerosene. This means it's efficiency is higher over the first stage boost, and in particular the first stage boost can be prolonged. It would be a major effort to create from scratch a two fuel motor. But there are many existing very fine motors in the US inventory for which tooling and contractor support exists, and there are many of these already warehoused. That said, that statement I objected to is not sustainable. |
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The engines of the Saturn V heavy lift rockets are russian made. It would take 3-6 years for the americans go to space with out the help of the russians if they start now creating the vehicles and engines and need to spend billions of dollar.
As far as I know, Saturn V was last used many many years ago. Which one was the last American space shuttle? I mean not just Saturn V, most other heavy lift rockets use russian engine.No, of course they do not. Chinese rockets don't, and US rockets don't, and French rockets don't.... |
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Bolded part, nyet. One reliable 3-4 decade old launch system.
People are free to disagree. The NASA doesn't even have a space shuttle program now. They depend on the Russian rockets to get the American crew to the ISS. And for the last two decades, they haven't done anything worthwhile. Really? |
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You can't build a road to the moon.
Crazy ruskies.
The current technology doesn't permit that. But that doesn't mean that in the future that might be impossible. Russian space technology, as of now is much more advanced than the American one. Bolded part, nyet. One reliable 3-4 decade old launch system. |
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It will be interesting to see if Europeans will intensify space partnership with Russia. I don't think that will happen in near future. The NASA has already stopped all the co-operation it had with Roscosmos. The European space agencies will soon follow suit. There's enough room on the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, and the rest of the Solar System for more than one puny little Earth country to go exploring and or settling. |
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What would you do if you had the equivalent of millions of dollars in BTC – a currency you can use for any transaction you wish, from buying a teenth of weed to funding a rebellion in another country, had secured several influential positions in major governments of the world and wanted to get a means of transportation as discrete and unobstructed as is your cryptocurrency of choice? Of course you’d get a jet. But not a simple jet. You’d get the one no one knows exists and big enough to match any of your desired cargo. Like Boeing 777-200.
Find a rout flying over the ocean so if it supposedly crashes nobody can find the debris. Contact the pilots skilled enough to shadow another flight thus hiding from radars and buy them off with BTC – no one can trace who paid who and for what. Prepare a landing site anywhere between Thailand and Spain eastern coast. Grease some palms in Malaysian government to look for a crashed plane somewhere you want them to. Hide the aircraft in the shadow of another one until you reach the airfield, land, get rid of passengers, dismantle the transponder, conceal any on-hull insignia: voila, you’ve got your own plane!
If the rumored Bitcoin Freemasons do exist who’s to say they couldn’t pull this off with the MH370? A Singapore Airlines 68 flight was close enough at the time of its disappearance to hide in its radar shadow and the Malaysian pilots could land anywhere between Singapore and Barcelona. Now the secret Society has a jet in their disposal which could be used to transport important people, laundered cash, even weapons discretely all around the globe.
No, if someone wanted to do that, it'd be way easier with an old 707 or 727. And cheaper. |
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“Warming by two degrees Celsius is going to have major implications…. 40 percent of the arable land in Africa will be gone at two degrees Celsius; Bangkok could very well be underwater at two degrees Celsius,” he said.
The World Bank is making efforts in several areas to fight climate change, including developing carbon pricing and trading schemes, financing for renewable energy, and pressing governments to remove energy subsidies.
But Kim expressed worry that many had stopped thinking about climate change as an urgent problem.
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whoa.... You mean their investments might sour? |
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I don't hate either one of those groups! I think to hate on someone else is because you want to be more like them.
Aw come on. You too can be a hater. Think of all the fun you might be missing. <<satire>> |
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Maybe they see it as payback for witch trials?
Well..... But if you are a true feminist-atheist wouldn't you believe the witches got what they deserved by keepin' down the feminist movement with their bizarre illogical beliefs?  I can't imagine any more genuinely sexist social or cultural manifestation than witches, warlocks, half man half goat devil dogs, and don't forget Godzilla. But hey, maybe we actually really want sexist stuff. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051380/ |
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Wilikon, I agree that the "Global Warming" or now called "Climate Change" issue has gotten way out of hand. It could even be said that it has been used as "brain washing" for some.
What are your thoughts on the whole evolution/creation debate? I get so much hatred for even bringing up the discussion and just for showing the evidences that support intelligent design I get called "Stupid, ignorant, a religious fanatic" and so on. But I think that there has been some "brain washing" going on for this topic as well. So much so that here in the US, evolution is now taught as an undeniable fact. At least when I was young it was called a "theory."
Regarding the evolution/creation debate. On one corner trying to make dinosaurs walk around with Christ is like trying to put God into a very very small box a simple human brain tries to understand. Life is the ultimate creation on Earth but to have a conscience is what makes us unique from the animal kingdom. To CHOSE to do good with it is what makes us truly divine. At the other corner, the amount of chaos one universe would need to built consciousness with atoms created from the heart of a supernova all the way to us, typing on this forum, only based on pure random steps for 14 billion years is mind boggling. I wonder why, if we are made of pure element there is a need for life to exist and then there is an energy for life to evolve. But why? Being pure gold would not matter to me. I would simply be. Why is Life working so hard to stay alive? I was raised as a Christian. I was not raised into believing a dude with a beard was sitting on a cloud though. I am still a believer as I was one before I knew what a Bible was. But you should not take anything on a personal level on the internet. Share your views and get ready to be slapped on both cheeks. Be ready to swim like a salmon fighting the counter current. But also, be ready to drop your computer, leave this forum, turn off the internet and look around if someone is not seeking somebody to just to talk to, family members, neighbor. Right now. Your life and your strong belief should be a natural lighthouse for others. Effortless. That's how I would define being a believer. Everything else is Politic and Dogma, this thread included. I do not want to derail my REDDIT thread anymore as I created one with the https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=453031.0 subject already Ah yes. I have already posted on that thread extensively. It cannot be said that I am afraid of having my own opinions regardless of what the common belief of the majority is.  Have you read any of the threads about the threat of Yellowstone's "Super Volcano" erupting sometime? Supposedly that would throw us into an ice age. Would the "climate change" people shut up for a while then?  No. They will be a greater demand to tax the snow on your sidewalk and the air you breath while they will be driving around with their 4x4 "to protect the children". What I have as an opinion is that contingency plans should be drawn up for fthe Yellowstone Blaster, Carrington Events, house sized meteor impacts, superbugs, and many other possible Destroyers. Let's include BOTH the planet heating up and cooling down. That hasn't been done, and the AGW religion is the primary cause of the human race refusing to face these possibly deadly realities. In the past, these would have been called and shrugged off as "acts of God", but now that we've grown up a bit, God would like to see us handle things in something of a more mature way. So far, not so good. |
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 Permafrost may have far-reaching effects on climate change, a new study suggests.The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer new evidence that permafrost thawing releases large amounts of greenhouse gases, which can raise global temperatures. "We've known for a while now that permafrost is thawing," Suzanne Hodgkins, the lead author on the paper, said in a statement. "But what we've found is that the associated changes in plant community composition in the polar regions could lead to way more carbon being released into the atmosphere as methane." Permafrost, which is a thick layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, is usually found in the world’s polar regions. The latest study shows that as permafrost melts, it produces releases significant amounts of methane. Compared to carbon dioxide, methane is 33 times more effective as a greenhouse gas. The study involved taking samples from soil in Sweden. Researchers found that if permafrost melts entirely, there will likely be five times as much carbon in the atmosphere than there is today. "The world is getting warmer, and the additional release of gas would only add to our problems," said Jeff Chanton, a researcher from Florida State University. Permafrost covers about 24 percent of all land in the northern hemisphere and stores approximately 1.5 trillion tons of carbon -- twice the amount currently found in the atmosphere. A 2012 study predicted that greenhouse gases released from melting permafrost could increase the world’s temperature by an additional 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit within the next century. Ted Schuur, a permafrost expert at the University of Florida, conducted his own field research on permafrost and climate change in Alaska. He said that climate change and permafrost thawing are linked at the point where the melting triggers further warming. "We're on the edge of a major transition point," Schuur told USA Today about one of his studies, which found that tundras worldwide may be releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they can absorb. The resulting emissions may resemble those caused by deforestation, but they are not as harmful to the environment as emissions from power plants and cars. The latest study is part of a larger multicontinent effort that included researchers from North America, Europe and Australia. http://www.ibtimes.com/permafrost-thawing-may-lead-way-more-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-1568925------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Permanent Frosting on my cake (tax cake for climate change that is) cannot be stopped! These methane and permafrost arguments have been being pushed for quite a while. They are purely disinformation, as melting permafrost is and always has been very common. The actual issue is whether additional melting permafrost from man's supposed effect on increasing CO2 is a high positive feedback mechanism. Essentially it is an irrefutable argument based on faulty premises. |
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Well, that's quite interesting in some respects. For example, it establishes a chain of causality between the expression of intent in the early 1990s (in your linked to document):
The chairman of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri has suggested that a focus on children is the top priority for bringing
about societal change, and that by ‘sensitising’ children to climate change, it will be possible to get them to ‘shame adults into taking the right steps’.
Pachauri’s ideas are echoed in UNICEF’s manual on climate change education, which, it is claimed, is about helping children to become ‘agents of change’.
....and the very existence of the ridiculous Youtube videos and advertisements attempting to influence behavior by little girls, trains, puppy dogs, teddy bears, monkeys, polar bears, and so forth. Not to forget the drowning babies.... |
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Saving the planet from climate change is ‘beyond our ability’ and we should stop wasting time trying to tackle global warming, a leading scientist has claimed. James Lovelock, who first detected CFCs in the atmosphere and proposed the Gaia hypotheses, claims society should retreat to ‘climate-controlled cities’ and give up on large expanses of land which will become inhabitable. Moonbats. With technology advancing so much, we will be able to reverse the climate change in the near future. The idea of climate controlled cities is appalling. Who wants to live inside a cage? Why, then, do you think there would be so much pressure to change peoples' behavior and to tax them for supposed 'pro environmental' projects at this time? |
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I don't understand why actually I should refuse from using Mozilla Firefox as it's truely the best Internet browser !
As it was already mentioned ' Some privacy or power-user plugins work better on Firefox.'
Right. All you might want to do is deprive Mozilla from making money from you using their browser. Switch the search engine to DuckGoGo and starve the gay fascist beast. http://www.yalelawtech.org/ip-in-the-digital-age/how-does-firefox-make-money-again/Mozilla also secured rather lucrative deals with google and other popular search engines, such that whenever firefox provides a default search through these engines they get paid for the traffic generated, with the transactions monitored by the Mozilla Corporation. These deals account for over 80% of Mozilla’s funds.http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefoxAlmost the entirety of Mozilla’s income — 97% of $104 million — arrives in the form of royalties from the Firefox search box, and the lion’s share (86%, $85 million) of those royalties are paid by the default search engine: Google. |
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hmm...yeah, that does not really do it for me, in terms of racketing up the guilt... here...try this one...I'ts got a mean guy, a big train and a little innocent girl.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOi5FclEh_QIf that's not good enough, let me know. There are some that have teddy bears and puppies and babies. Real tear jerkers. Well Sir, I shall see your teddy bears and raise you a suicidal pack of monkey, polar bear and locomotive loving kangaroo.... http://youtu.be/8PMtD9z4EooHey, look....those monkeys and bears are like...stupid.... Here's a BABY, man. It's like drowning, and the mom doesn't even care! And it's your fault! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSsIIxQ_dEAnd like, look dude....<<SATIRICALLY playing the bigoted self righteous warmie>> i know you think your right, but man...just listen to this guy, maybe you'll see...maybe you'll see how really serious all this is...like maybe wake up? I mean, you can help save the planet too, just lay off on eating meat, driving cars and working out in the fracking fields for $115k a year... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQLOL...that guy stupider than your monkeys and bears...LOL... |
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hmm...yeah, that does not really do it for me, in terms of racketing up the guilt... here...try this one...I'ts got a mean guy, a big train and a little innocent girl.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOi5FclEh_QIf that's not good enough, let me know. There are some that have teddy bears and puppies and babies. Real tear jerkers. |
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I'm so glad <<NOT>> that our attention has been diverted from which browsers and methods of using the Internet are NSA and corporate spying resistent, and focused on namby pamby social issues. |
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NYT’s Friedman Compares Global Warming Deniers to Trotsky Marxists – Blames Global Warming for Syrian Revolution (Video)New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman sited a debunked study to compare global warming deniers to Trotsky Marxists – then blames the Syrian revolution on global warming, not on Bashir Assad’s brutality. Let me put this in personal terms. Your son or daughter has a disease. And you go to 100 doctors. 97 out of a hundred say, “This is a cause and this is a cure,” and three percent say, “This is a cause and this is a cure.” It’s like 97% of experts say this. 3% say that. And, conservatives say, “I’m going to go with the 3%.” That’s not conservative. That’s Trotskyite-radical… That’s what we saw in Syria. We saw a four-year drought in Syria’s mondern history that proceeded the revolution there. That produced a million refugees that basically led a predicate for that revolution. http://youtu.be/ew4GR066GHE I'm having trouble making any sense of that. |
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There is no such thing as climate. It's all just a bunch of air and sunshine.
I must have reddit wrong. |
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