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It's almost all hypothetical. Besides carbon, silicon and boron/boron-nitrogen based life has been explored, while using a variety of solvents like ammonia, hydrogen flouride, and methane. The reoccuring theme though is that carbon based life outcompetes other forms in water rich enviroments across a wide range of temperatures, and there is really only edge cases for things like silane life at extremely low temperatures in an ammonia/methane enviroment [silane life cannot interact with carbon life, everything that sustains carbon life would cause a silane lifeform to burst into flames]. Titan

...But it makes it very easy for the loader to access and maintain rpm?

Wasn't necessarily talking about the surface though, although life in a 90atm 900F atmosphere isn't impossible, just exotic by requirement. I'm fairly positive that sulfur can be used in lieu of oxygen for metabolic purposes for instance. It feels odd to assume our solar system is perfectly average when it appears the norm graviates toward Red Dwarfs and tidally locked planets being bathed in high levels of radiation. What value of average are we trying to get here, because I'd say out system is rather placid and hospitable and on the high end of habitability. Venus, Mars, Ganymede, E

I want to say that our solar system seems to be an aberration. We don't just have three bodioes with liquid water, but at least one if not two that could support cyrobiology. Mars and Venus are both habitable with technological assistance, both may have or still harbor life. There are abundant sources of easily extractable minerals and water. I'd say our system was/is predisposed in comparative terms to being life sustainable, while 90% of discovered exosystems seem to be hellish.

Newest Republican attempt to increase the proliferation of nuclear arms.

Raising the minimum wage is fine as a current solution, the costs of wage are a tiny portion of a companies expenditure and wouldn't necessitate a equivalent increase of the price in goods. The company can eat it and deal with the fact they won't be subsidized by government support for workers (which is basically how Walmart etal treat food stamps, housing and heat assistance), and in doing so actually lowers the necessary tax burden on middle and lower income brackets. I think a longterm solution is the abolition of the minimum wage, the implementation of a maximum wage, being aggressive

Ashely Madison, secret gay dating site funded by adulterous men. This is such a hilarious clusterfuck.

I'm going to be a bit of a devils advocate here and say that your 90s experience with "VR" is nontransferable to the experience now. VRs biggest stumbling block is that the technology for real VR is still quite away, like 4-5 years away considering estimates on what's required to fool a human brain; turns out the brain is already running a VR simulation and doesn't take kindly to your bullshit.

I don't see the point in getting mad at executive agreements in this case. Moving to treaty would have resulted in something unworkable, the US excluding itself from the deal, and Iran getting 90% of what it wants with basically no concessions. China desperately wants Best Korea to die. They're a cancerous appendix and the only reason China doesn't do something now is, yes, a humanitarian/refugee crisis. The US/Better Korea in the case of reopened warfare, won't make it to Pyongyang because the Chinese will already be there. As far as Iran though, China wants to compete with Russia for inf

Congrats on absorbing suburbanites, the urban areas thank you for your sacrifice.

I think the more amusing scenario would have been the US not participating in forming the treaty, Iran getting even more favorable terms with Russians and Chinese arms manufacturers, and getting pretty much 90% of the trade it needed while the US misses out on developing a nonvolatile relationship with Iran. The deal is better than basically every other achievable outcome.

Oh no, I don't disagree and this is part of the issue as well, combined with the usual political attitudes of of those who work in IT makes attracting and keeping the necessary talent close to impossible. Private sector poaching is an overall larger issue with the entirety of public sector work, but that's what happens when the public sector is underfunded. That's why I think a large cultural change is required as well, the problem isn't just within how the government is structured but just how Americans even think or perceive.

In this sense, Judge Dredd is a bit prophetic, although the Foundation series is a more light hearted take on it.

All will become one with Russia, Da?

Government IT is an awful place, not really because the people there are necessarily unprofessional, but because there is no funding. They can't attract necessary talent, they can't get the overhauls in necessary infrastructure, and problems successively compound themselves.Unless something changes and a huge funding influx comes in with changes to American culture, RIP the US because it can't keep up in cyberwarfare. Not because it doesn't have the technological capability or the knowledge base, but because members of the government itself are ideologically opposed to funding or supporting it