EdEarl

Was this drought exacerbated by global warming? It may have been.

If POTUS asks someone to serve, it would be difficult to refuse. Executive experience is beneficial for a candidate. Although, Sanders has a lot going for him now.

From: http://blogs.onlineeducation.touro.edu/top-10-learning-techniques-which-are-most-efficient/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-01-introduction-to-ionizing-radiation-fall-2006/lecture-notes/energy_dep_photo.pdf Sometimes a photon transfers its momentum to a free electron or other mass and makes it move. Friction isn't required. Moreover, a high negative potential repels electrons, and any sharp points or edges will leak electrons from being repelled by the high negative potential. Light just makes the process go faster. See Wikipedia Electron Gun BTW, quantum particles like electrons do not experience friction, and friction is not the cause of static electricity when rubbing your feet across a carpet.

IMO this adventure will succeed in about 50 years because ATM computing power is insufficient and understanding of biological systems that need to be simulated is inadequate.

Vote or become a politician. I hate that deluded fools get to vote, but it's the best system I know.

Depends on the orbit, it might end up in the Sun or elsewhere in the solar system.

Here is a link to Facebook that has on Open Letter to Donald Trump from Brendon Stanton, "the photographer behind the wildly popular Humans of New York Facebook page." I haven't seen Humans of New York and hadn't heard of Brandon Stanton (BS lol), before. The letter is scalding.

How do you propose to deal with the really big problems?

You will need to specify the width of the water slide. There are two strands of DNA per cell, I think, on mitochondrial, same as your mothers, and one in your cell nucleus, a combination of father and mother. A strand of DNA is about a meter long with about 3 billion (3 thousand million) base pairs. IDK the diameter of human DNA; some here should.

A benevolent, genius dictator might govern better than democracy, and not make people feel enslaved. However, power corrupts. There is no ideal government AFAIK. Do you have a proposal?

Better to bicker than be enslaved.

The winters are too cold right now, but maybe one day.

I think you are referring to cautious. Women are generally smaller and weaker than men, which makes them cautious, and that sometimes makes them seem cold. But, everyone is different and you may have run across an unusual distribution of women.

Strange question.

There's not much more can be said about free fall. Just memorize this post, #2, #4, #6, #8 and #9 and you are an expert.

I think the charge will drain away slowly as photons hit the charged surface of the orbiter.

It is defined that way. You are describing a special case that does not result in an orbit.

The ISS is traveling close to 20,000 m/h (32,000 km/h). If the Earth's gravity didn't pull down, it would fly in a straight line. The effect of the two, gravity and forward speed, means it falls towards the Earth, but flies forward fast enough that it cannot fall into the Earth. Thus, it is in free fall (always falling) and moving forward fast.

We are going into space, which I think is historic, but not an accident. There are currently plans by the Russia plans to put a man on the moon by 2030, and the Europeans want a piece of the action. China hopes to put a man on the moon by 2030. Mars.One plans to put people on Mars sometime after 2025. popsci.com reports Golden Spike, a Hawaiian company is selling trips to the moon for $750M. NASA is babbling about a trip to Mars and back, but currently Congress won't fund such a thing. Although, with Russia and China making plans, they might stand up, rest their brains a moment, and do something for a change.

I agree, we should not wait for automation, but it doesn't appear such a thing will be done anytime soon, and automation is coming on strong.

A drug program like Portugal. Cutting defense spending. Improving schools, the current effort is a mess according to my wife, a teacher. She spends too much time on paperwork instead of teaching, and she works too much overtime Imo.

I think it is an idea whose time has come. In fact I think it's inevitable as automation takes over more an more jobs. It's not all that's needed, but it would go a long way.

The GOP finds any minutia as reason to abandon social programs. They don't often succeed, but they make a lot of noise and try try again. And, yest they "improve" programs, making them less effective and too expensive.