tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post7273648125105945230..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: It came from the skySteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-34618904781949599192013-11-08T17:00:25.527-05:002013-11-08T17:00:25.527-05:00As long as the libraries of scientific and enginee...As long as the libraries of scientific and engineering information aren't lost it should only take a few decades. I disagree that what constitutes "now"should be our target though. No need to re-invent 1959 tail fins on cars or even striped toothpaste or non-fat cafe lattes for that matter.<br /><br />A lot of good could come from smallish meteor impacts. Wages for the average oregonlocalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-29316055435611272892013-11-07T21:32:15.780-05:002013-11-07T21:32:15.780-05:00That is an interesting academic question. How far...That is an interesting academic question. How far back, relatively speaking, do we need to be forced to go before we can recover to 'now', given that we know that this is where we want to get to?David Coughlinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-40708530634264773402013-11-07T15:04:25.380-05:002013-11-07T15:04:25.380-05:00Am I the only one to notice that this picture look...Am I the only one to notice that this picture looks eerily like the one in the fifties movie "The Thing"?Albertosaurusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-33679441780387008672013-11-07T11:03:54.987-05:002013-11-07T11:03:54.987-05:00I can see that it would be a disaster, but collaps...I can see that it would be a disaster, but collapsing the global economy for a *century* seems like at least an order of magnitude too long - where does that estimate come from?Anonymous_IVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-50478341529555629542013-11-07T10:34:06.681-05:002013-11-07T10:34:06.681-05:00"Dr. Lu said astronomers had found only 10 to..."Dr. Lu said astronomers had found only 10 to 20 percent of the near-Earth asteroids of that size."<br /><br /><br />Why hasn't this been a priority?<br /><br /><br /><br />This is one of the things that really pisses me off about government waste. We throw away money on all sorts of programs that are a far cry away from being public goods, but something like this is so obviously a Corneliusnoreply@blogger.com