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I think if I saw an "actual work done" chart at the end of 2017 that compared the 2017 schedule, and it matched in any way, I'd be feeling much more confident about SC coming together.

this 100% Because the fairly low tolerances in the 10CM range, you really need an active feedback system, ex: through a perception system that tracks where you are and where you need to go. Another idea is to simply detect the length of the grass you're cutting, such that the robot is always...

Are you fucking kid me, I didn't know we had a SPACE TANK. It's too bad it's just a marketing gimmick and not a real prototype =\

X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-4 lands at Kennedy Space Center > U.S. Air Force > Article Display Rumor says they're using a hall thruster (ion drive).

Behold, a breakdown of my setup: Tuco's Setup (Critique Welcome!) | EverQuest Forums

No fence here, anyone who makes an mra thread in a forum wih 99% men is a beta.

Thread sucks.

So: Nostalgia-driven cash grab or rebirth of the arena shooter genre? I'd love to get *really* good at an FPS again, it's been a while and I'm tired of low-skill cap FPS.

I wonder why they're hiding the second stage landing.

If you weren't able to legally drink before Luclin came out, you're a millennial.

The second bit is pretty good.

Fuck, I was loose with my verbiage and now Kiroy got one up on me. What's the greatest advancement to civilization that has come from modern society discovering something about a prehistory society?

It's not breaking news because it doesn't really matter and it's just pretend-scientists playing with rocks and dirt. @hodj What's the greatest advancement to civilization that has come from a prehistory discovery?

Every autonomous mower I've seen is terrible because it makes no attempt at efficient paths and just relies on being able to operate indefinitely. Which means the blades will get dull like 10x faster, the mower will be active 10x longer than it should and your lawn looks like you mowed it drunk...

This is the science thread, not the "science fiction" or "science enthusiasts who use philosophy and sociology to ponder scientific issues thread".

I forgot how... sepia... deus ex was

Giving Tilly a Hand: Tilly Lockey, double amputee, tests a pioneering bionic hand to help other children overcome disabilities - Womanthology Gaming companies doing innovative research to create game-inspired tech from near-future sci fi is an amazing idea.

"Hey what's that non-descript object? Let's turn to our UFO expert"

@Titan_Atlas Have you been to any of these places or even know someone who lived at those places, or did you get your opinion on them from some shitty articles? Barring nuclear war with Pakistan, India is just fine.

Very cool. Wouldn't mind a much briefer description, especially for people who already know almost everything on that page.

I wonder if ISBoxer makes or will make a networked setup, so you can use the functionality across different computers.

It can go any number of ways, but I can see it going: 1. AmeriCorp Space Mines brings in asteroid, makes trillions over the next few years. 2. IndiaCorp Space Mines launches giant rickshaw to bring asteroid in, obliterates Bangalaru and a large portion of the Tanami desert (nobody notices). 3...

Yeah I think if it was done "properly", no matter who goes out to park a massive rock near earth would have to be vetted by US, Russia, China, India and EU (if it exists, lol) space agencies (and more) to verify they weren't a bunch of jackasses. AS for the weaponization ramifications, who...

Definitely worth the risk! It seems like it didn't take much to bring you from a hemisphere ending event to a city-ending event though. I'm not an astrophysicist but I feel like the risk of putting it at a lagrange point or in some earth intersecting orbit and putting it on the moon seems...

Wasn't Columbus funded by Spain? The first profitable asteroid mining operation might be done by a private company, but I think it'll be partially funded by the State, and will certainly use tech that the State did a lot of the initial research on. Even SpaceX, which is sort of the...

I think people go with this chain of logic: 1. We need to colonize other planets. 2. The moon is the closest large celestial body we can colonize. 3. Let's find reasons to colonize the moon. 4. ??? 5. We're now an interstellar species. It's like figuring out how to make a sustainable colony can...

What kind of impact are we looking at if a building sized asteroid in LOE gets its orbit fucked up and the orbit decays until it falls to the earth? It seems like asteroids with long orbits around the sun are traveling much faster relative to the earth than our orbitting satellites. It'd be a...

Thanks, @Tuco.

I'll be honest, my entire knowledge of genetics comes from reading Old Man's War and Seventy-Two Letters.

Doesn't the egg contribute like, half the DNA or something? Personally I'd rather combine my natural DNA with a genetically superior one rather than clone myself. Sexual reproduction is common for a reason and let's be real here, beyond being an amazing gamer and software developer I don't...

I don't know what would be more desirable, buying eggs from genetically superior women or creating your own. I really don't know what the ramifications are of wanting a daughter created from Mila Kunis' and your DNA.

I feel like artificial wombs will come around the same time as gene therapy and will possibly be totally eclipsed by it.

My opinion is that there's a threshold of content amount and relation to "politics" that was crossed in yesterday's political thread that warranted a thread split. When I logged on and saw the same massive text walls from Lithose, Mist's feminist stuff, a bunch of personal accounts of feminism...

You're not going to have much luck arguing that non-political discussion of feminism belongs in the politics thread more than it does in the feminism thread.

My good friend Arbitrary. I love you. Please describe how your post on feminism belongs in the political thread.

Great points guys, can you further expound on that?

I don't even disagree with this, but with nearly nothing actually happening regarding feminism in a political or legislative sense, the amount of back and forth over the same bullshit over and over while actual political discussions are happening is pretty tiresome. I mean, ignoring my personal...