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The biggest disicentive is it's really expensive and there's not an immediate financial payoff. We went to the moon to beat the dirty commie russians. After that, we were hoping there was some way to exploit it via mining.
What we found was it's an incredibly hostile environment, sending people and equipment up is very expensive, and it's not easily exploited with conventional technology. All of which made it far cheaper to continue to buy stuff from terrestrial sources.
It also takes a long time to get anywhere.
The Voyager probes, the fastest man-made objects, took a year and a half "just" to get to Jupiter.
Same for close relatives Pioneer 10 and 11.
The Voyagers took 2 years to get to Saturn. Pioneer 11, the first probe to visit Saturn, took SIX years to get there.*
It will take New Horizons 9 years to reach Pluto, and will take it about a year to reach Jupiter*.
All 5 devices were built as light as possible, and the Voyagers and Pioneers were timed for a closest-approach scenario, which isn't feasable most of the time(in fact, Pluto was inside Neptune's orbit for their flights).
A manned mission would be exponentially slower due to the much greater mass it has to haul.
To illustrate:
New Horizons reached lunar orbit in 9 hours.
Apollo 11 took 3 days.
And the Apollos were about as small as you could possibly make them, as well as riding a much bigger rocket.
The further you go, the slower things get, due to the fact that you have to carry more consumables.
*If you're wondering why the Voyagers wind up so much faster than the Pioneers when they start out fairly close, and why the New Horizons is slower when it will reach Jupiter faster...
The V'gers used Jupiter's gravity as a "slingshot" to accelerate, while Pioneer 11 used a SINGLE slingshot off Jupiter to direct itself towards Saturn and Pioneer 10 made no use of the slingshot maneuver.
New Horizons will use a single slingshot to accelerate itself towards Pluto, but lacking the slingshot off of Saturn, and V'ger 2's Uranus and Neptune shouts, ends up being slower even though it starts out faster.
Pioneer 11 also had to double back across the solar system to reach Saturn, which was on the opposite side of the sun from Jupiter for the point where the 11 flew by. That added a lot of time.
The Voyagers had a trajectory much closer to a straight-line run, as Jupiter and Saturn were more conveniently aligned for their flyby. ALL the gas giants for Voyager 2. They COULD have even done a Pluto flyby, but chose instead to do a more detailed look at Neptune. To be fair, they expected Voyager 3 to visit Pluto. They didn't know NASA's glory days were ending.
Didn't I just say all that?
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Got a URL for MMA?
I don't go to too many MMA forums (mainly because they are dominated by idiotic teenage e-thugs), but here are three sites that I go to for news and stats:
http://www.mmaweekly.com/index.asp
http://www.pridefc.com/pride2005/index_new_temp.php
I'm mainly a Pride fan, but I watch UFC when its on. The UFC Ultimate Fighter reality shows were previously pretty crappy, but the one on now cuts to the chase and just has veteran fighters fighting with alot of the reality show drama garbage turned way down.
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Not to totally take this thread off topic from pro-wrestling, but does anyone here watch MMA? Like Pride, UFC or K1?
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The disincentives we have are pretty monumental and nothing worth hiding.
There's nothing to hide really. First of all, manned interplanetary space travel is too costly and there aren't many incentives to travel to the other planets. Unmanned interplanetary probes are already too costly for many government administrations when balanced against things that the masses care more about like education, job security, etc. The endeavour to create more complex and more costly manned spacecraft would be even harder to justify. Beyond catering to the idealistic goals of exploration, there's not much for an administration to gain by sending astronauts to Mars or to orbit a gas giant.
Interplanetary travel would be done for the sake of knowledge with no applicable rewards. They still have to worry about the strain on the human passengers in regards to the deterioration of muscle and bone mass and the effects of cosmic radiation over extended time. The engine technology isn't there yet either, which leads me to the other problem, time. It would take up to a decade to travel to the outer planets. It took the Voyager probes many years before they reached the outer planets, with the benefit of gravity assist. Outside of the time factor, you have to deal with fuel. The faster you want to go, the more fuel you need, the more fuel you need, the heavier your craft gets, the heavier your craft is, the slower it goes.
Don't even get me started on interstellar travel. The closest star is like 70 light years away. It would take 70 years to reach that star travelling at the speed of light. How long do you think it would take with our current technology? What would mankind gain from such an expensive endeavour?
Even radio astronomers take a passive approach to probing deep space for ET. There's no point to sending radio transmissions, because by the time anyone listening hears the message, the answer would take many many years to come back. So they just listen in the hope that some signal eventually makes it way to Earth.
So really, there's nothing to hide. The universe is just too damn vast, we aren't smart enough to break the laws of physics yet, we have no way of getting anywhere of consequence, and nowhere of consequence to go anyways.
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So how old is she at the end of episode 6 (going by the earth years)?
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Hopefully, they won't get any funny ideas about injecting the new productions with the anime styling "flavor of the month", like when the director of Top O Nerae 2 decided Gunbuster needed to have this amazing FLCL style. I'm looking forward to it. The more Gainax the better.
It makes me wonder how it will come across seeing as how Anno isn't as depressed and morose as he was back in 1996.
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That would be really interesting, to have an accurate replica of a Walther P-38 or some other gun if they want to update him and a new transformation scheme. It could be marketed towards older fans as most the MP line is judging on the pricing, bypassing the whole gun toy dilemma. On second thought, I doubt it could happen.
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Makes sense to me. Pluto was a Kuiper Belt object due to its small size and elongated orbit. If they kept Pluto as a planet they would have had to label a bunch of other similar objects in the vicinity as planets, then you would have had 15-20 planets when you know they are just tiny balls of rock and ice. The term planet was ambiguous before anyways.
Just what I'd expect to hear from an "8-Planet Apologist."
APOLOGIST!!! How dare you sir!!
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MANTASTIC!!! Alien xenomorph crossed with terminator T-800 and Xtro!
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Makes sense to me. Pluto was a Kuiper Belt object due to its small size and elongated orbit. If they kept Pluto as a planet they would have had to label a bunch of other similar objects in the vicinity as planets, then you would have had 15-20 planets when you know they are just tiny balls of rock and ice. The term planet was ambiguous before anyways.
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I don't think all that stuff hanging off of his back is that big a deal anyways. Unless it makes for an unbalanced robot mode that wants to fall on its back all the time.
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Found this up on TFANS, there's a KISS Play comic preview featuring what seems to be Megatron as an S2000... that's about the only thing worth reporting on though... let's just say I'm really not digging the path Takara is continually taking the Transformers down on their end.
http://www.mediaworks.co.jp/special/daioh/...p/pickup03.html
Since when did S2000s have triple headlights? That's just some fictional car design.
WTF. So now Megatron is a child molestor? Look at his tongue in that comic! Looks like they are really playing up the whole "transmolestor" advertisting thing.
Veiny tongues today, slimy white spurting tentacles of Cybertron tomorrow.
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That Starscream design screams more Zanscare mobile suit from V Gundam than anything like Jeeg. Look at the eyes and how chunky the body is. Terrible.
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I'd like to know what the hell kind of search engine you were using cause Google came back with the anime for me. Maybe you were using Spoogle or Ya-Ho?
No really, I want to know...
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Jesus, at least The Rock had acting potential, this guy is just Marky Mark on roids. Entertainment Weekly described John Cena as "a muscle-bound Matt Damon who ate another Matt Damon for breakfast".
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I loved the film. I actually liked it better than Collateral, although to tell you the truth I might have an unfair bias against it due to Tom Cruise being in it.
I think most people's complaints about Miami Vice might be that one it doesn't have action all over the place like some Michael Bay movie, which may be due to the kids of today being spoiled by these action filled blockbusters. Some people complain that it is too slow, but really when you look at Heat, it had the same structure, which was a slow build as Pacino's team and Deniro's team tried to outmanuever the other until an action climax. The majority of Heat and Miami Vice is mostly talking, strategy, and investigation and not action.
Collateral might be looked upon as better, and I could see where it kept a constant feeling of tension. The other complaint that I see that is common is that it wasn't true enough to the old TV series, which I think is ridiculous given that they certainly couldn't take the "Wedding Singer" approach to it and dress everyone in pastel and Alligator shoes with no socks. The credibility would've been shot before you got 1/4 of the way into the movie.
My favorite complaint to laugh at is that the new actors don't have the same charisma as the old ones. Honestly now, do they even remember that it was Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas? The prior has never been an A list actor and the latter hasn't acted in so long that he resorted to being a spokesman for Psychic Readers Network before being replaced by Mrs. Cleo! To be more fair about it, of course some people feel that the old actors had more charisma, they had 6 years to build on their characters, while Farrell and Foxx have 2 hours.
I think it's a solid Mann movie which is still gold in any case. It won't topple Heat from the top, but I think it's near there.
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Is it my imagination or is Top O Nerae not listed while its sequel is?
Well, at least Graveyard of the Fireflies and Miyazaki works are in there.
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I was thinking there was a spoiler tag or something that would hide the text, but I can't figure it out. Or is everyone changing text color to white to hide their spoiler text?
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But I do like how they placed the series real end more then 10 years into the future. It helped to prove some extra closure for the characters and the series and proved a descent segway between the two series. However I'm still slightly confused about why the main character was so damned "off" after episode 4 and why Nono basically continously had to cheerleader her on with all the Noriko references. It really clouded the story. I did dig the quick image of the Eltrium during the meeting though! That proved a rather nasty twist.
The more I think about it Noriko becomes much like the Eternal Mythical hero/surviver from a battle. Much like in the Odessy(spl).
Hey Chrono, can you explain what was that whole deal with them showing the Eltreum? I didn't understand what they were talking about when they showed it.
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I agree about Escaflowne. If it was aired on TV prior to Evangelion in Japan, I'm sure people would have paid more attention to it. As it was, it was simply overshadowed by the HUGE Evangelion fever that swept Japan around that time.
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WETA's had it on their slate for years now, although I remember their website saying it was on hold or something. It'll probably fall through if it hasn't already.
Edit: Yep, it's still on hold. http://www.wetaworkshop.co.nz/projects/fil...lm/neon_genesis