Recent content by steve_bnk

Space tourism is probably about as safe as flying on a Russian made commercial jet.

IIn biblical mythology Arabs and Jews share common roots. Born out by genetics. There are not a lot of verifiable details, Mohamed used religion to unify a group of Arab clans along with military force. To me Mohammed was a latter day Moses to the Arabs of the times.. Constantine promoted...

I thought the program was to develop new rockets. How is it we will still be dependent on outside resources?

At least you are consistent with your posts on other threads.

'...Huh? That's not misleading! The availability of energy is no barrier to growth! Humans are currently expanding our energy use at 1019 J per year: ten billion billion Joules. If we repeat that expansion every year for 5 billion more years, at the end we'll be using 5 x 1028 J per year, which...

I was talking about you, ....

'...What does it have to do with anything?..' It has to do with 2lot and entropy. Anyone who understood 2lot would see that. The motor generator example eis an lectromechanical equivalent to Clausius and Kelvin's version of entropy with heat flow and available work. '...No, it is not...'...

Nice try. 2lot Is the prohibition against perpetual motion. There are no lossless process. 1LOT alone does not prohibit perpetual motion. People tried to achieve perpetual motion using 1LOT. Or the Clausius - Kelvin statement, all of the heat transfered from a source to a sink can not be...

Perception wise, on the street Israel is to the region what ISIS is to us . An oppressor. If the Israeli army moved into Lebanon, Syria, Iraq it would create a firestorm of opposition. Netanyahu knows that. During the last presidential election he tried to pressure Obama into attacking Iran...

I rely on thermodynamics. Allelectrical circuit theories and functions are thermodynamiccontinuity equations. The borders of the USA represent athermodynamic boundary. Mass and energy entering the border, internalmass and energy, and mass and energy leaving binders at all timesmust e in a...

I'd put it at 97.45 meters +- 5 meters. it didn't blow up it blew all around, bioth up and down....

I didn't say slavery and Jim Crow e were not the root causes. I believe the report cited welfare as contributing to the decline and the only real solution was job opportunities.

Laws went a very long way. Successful discrimination lawsuits decades back has forced corporate America to deal with it. A company being labeled racist today can impact it. Mid to large size companies tend to have formal training and discrimination policy. Today it is lum,ped under diversity...

2LOT does apply. For a fixed amount of renewable resources there is a curve of population versus the amount of food water, goods and services per person. Everything ultimately coes down to available mass and energy in varying forms. The ecosystem is powered by the Sun. The average amount of...

I do not know that NASA has produced anything of a great material significance. What has the ISS produced? What the ISS has demonstrated is that humans going into long term low/zero g regardless of preventive regimens will deteriorate. The GAO has consistently said that NASA as trickle down...