PK Birkmeyer
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@Arteymas_ How serious can you take people with fans on their head??
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@dotkrueger Problems for future generations and technology to face and solve.
One step at a time.
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We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us.
We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever.
1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there.
2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy.
3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it.
4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break.
5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.
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@DX_Alphafg I do *NOT* agree.
In fact, I *LAUGH* at this assertion!!
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@its_The_Dr You aren't blind, dumbass. You still have one good eye. You'd better take care of it. HINT: Don't try to stop ICE's rubber bullets with it again.
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@pmarca 2070. The California High Speed Rail is finished.
A one-way ticket is $225,000.00. Plus taxes.
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It will cost more than that, and it will still never happen. There is no chance. It is not possible.
KTLA@KTLA
In a 60 Minutes report, officials said they now believe the rail line linking L.A. and San Francisco could ultimately cost about $126 billion, more than triple the original price tag approved by voters. ktla.com/news/californi…
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@Jamesjonesik8 She should at least be investigated for any connections to the Somalis.
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A Minnesota judge named Sarah West has reportedly tossed a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud conviction even after a unanimous jury verdict found the defendant guilty. This kind of courtroom twist fuels the belief that the system has one gear for regular citizens and another for politically sensitive cases. Jury trials are supposed to be the public's final firewall against corruption, and when a single judge wipes out a unanimous decision, the burden of transparency must match the scale of the reversal.
The stakes are bigger than one case because every reversal like this further hollows out the civic contract. Trust in the justice system relies on the belief that the law is applied evenly to everyone, regardless of their connections or the political climate. We are watching to see if the rule of law will finally be reclaimed or if the right networks will continue to operate with a level of immunity that the average taxpayer can only dream of.

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@NewswirePatriot So who is to judge which culture is superior to another? And after such a judgment, what is to be done to the inferior culture??
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@DX_Alphafg Biden doesn't know how to tell the truth like he used to, because he had a difficult time with the truth in his younger years.
*THAT* is the truth!!
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@ProudElephant Except for that minor 9/11 skirmish.
Which New Yorkers seemed to have forgotten (as has Hillary).
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@AntonioSabatoJr Dogs evolved from wolves. Wolves are still around.
Just because an offshoot species prospers doesn't mean the parent species goes extinct.
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@EshaAA33 One of our founding fathers created the Marines to go kick some Muslim butt out of Tripoli when they were harassing our shipping.
So yes, they *did* shape our founding. They established themselves as a threat.
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