Displaying 9,211 To 9,240 Of 9,743 Comments We are closer to using fusion power than you think. Actually plasma induced fusion. Scientists and engineers are working on a project to get net positive energy from plasma induced fusion now. http://www.iter.org/default.aspx » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:49 pm I use FireFox and they have plenty of screen capture addons. FireShot is a good one. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:46 pm Exactly. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:44 pm You’re gonna love this interactive link of Sister Sarah in the oval office. http://www.palinaspresident.us/ » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:41 pm Even though China is fighting cutting down on green house gasses it is investing massive amounts of money into green technology. We need to create a worthwhile green energy technology manufacturing sector to replace some of the manufacturing jobs we have lost. I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:39 pm Sister Sarah dinosaurs were not around 5,000 years ago. 😉 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:28 pm I think the problem is scientific understanding has accelerated far more quickly than social progerss. The fact that our society cannot handle scientific discoveries and wants to use them for destructive purposes are not the fault of science. We simply need to push social progress and the ethics of how we use scientific discoveries will flow logically from that. Your point is 100% valid. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:27 pm I just think when you look at the long term costs, including the environmental impact, of burning dirty fossil fuels a little investment now will far outweigh the long term costs to society later. The only bad parts of the energy and climate bill is how it has been scaled down because of costs in my opinion. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:22 pm You should like the last paragraph in the post I left below this one. I talk about a perfect example about how good engineers are so necessary. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:19 pm There is a related responsibility to what scientific progress brings. Not all progress is good for society but I believe not knowing and not making decisions based on proper science has proved to be much worse. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:17 pm I’ve worked with many Chemical and Paper Science Engineers in my career and no doubt they tend to be more conservative. I appreciate what engineers do tremendously because the products I developed in my career would not have gone anywhere with engineers producing them and applying them to the field. But engineers and scientists do have different mindsets, at least in the areas of natural science I’m familiar with. Scientists tend to be more creative and open to new ideas while the engineers I’ve know are concerned about the practicality of implementing the new technology. In many ways engineers play the Devil’s advocate to new ideas which is a very important part of the creative process. Believe if some of my research colleagues had gone unchecked it would have led to some financial and physical disasters. For example, I had one chemist I worked with determined to use massive amounts of sodium hydride to synthesize the novel compound he had developed. Sodium hydride burns when it contacts water spontaneously. It’s usually only used in small amounts as a catylist for some reactions. I kept on telling him it’s just not practical to make the compound that way. Low and behold after several fires in our lab he was directed to use another synthetic pathway by our chemical engineering group. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:05 pm I’ve put the PlanetPOV link and email address in my profile. I’m just asked huffy users I know to look at my profile so it goes around the limitations of what you can put in a post. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 1:40 pm Great addition. I did not know that. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:34 pm No the flag looks great in the post. Actually I love adding animated graphics to my articles. I’m a visual person so I the more images in a post the better. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 2:00 pm He puts me in the mind of a great old movie. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 1:58 pm Great topic to choose. This guy is the poster child for all that is wrong with our immigration policy and local policing. FYI. For your image to show up as a thumbnail you have to upload it to the Planet so I uploaded another image. Animated images don’t look animated as thumbnails anyway. Believe me I tried. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 12:06 pm Anytime right wingers say truth, freedom and peace they mean the exact opposite in my experience. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 4, 2009 @ 2:13 pm There is corporate media and right wing media with a few sanctimonious progressive pundits sprinkled in as well. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 4, 2009 @ 1:20 pm Thanks for your insight. I would love to see a full column about your experience some time. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 4, 2009 @ 11:34 am The Failed History of Conservatism in America Great compilation! » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 11:54 am Great list. I love someone playing Devil’s advocate. That’s what the planet is all about. I’ll answer one by one. Conservatives want no change even at a slow pace. In fact most want to go backwards. I think things like urban sprawl need to be slowed down but for most progressives that’s not the type of progress we value anyway. You can’t balance budgets without raising taxes sometimes. While the Dems are offering a fiscally neutral healthcare plan, conservatives PAID FOR NOTHING under Bush. We did not save for a rainy day under Bush. In fact we were encouraged to spend about our means and that helped create the bubbles. Again conservatives think short term where progressives think about investing n the future. Conservatives value the old ways of white man entitlement to all the wealth in this country. Progressives value everyone getting the proper education and help so that every one can reach their potential. Again conservatives failed world view hinders real progress through hard work. Sobriety? Think about the hypocrisy of the conservatives again. I would much rather be driving on a highway with a driver smoking pot even if it was illegal in that state than with a driver who was drinking and taking prescription drugs. Wouldn’t you? » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 11:53 am That’s exactly what I was thinking. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 11:42 am 😆 » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 2, 2009 @ 11:41 am Excellent. I will read the whole thing later. You should like the article I posted. There are many similar themes. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 10:20 pm Here is a very interesting article almost a treatise called “Why Conservatives are Always Wrong”. It’s a great read. http://conservativesarealwayswrong.googlepages.com/ » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 10:17 pm Great addition it really says it all. Another poster gave me a link to a psych pol to determine you political leanings. I just can’t believe the majority of people would be rated conservative based on the way they would have to answer the questionnaire. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 10:14 pm I’m with you the only real conservation I understand to be worth while is conserving the state of the environment and natural resources. Otherwise conservatives are just knee-jerk reactionaries that want to hinder any progress or bomb something as responses to domestic and international crises, respectively. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 7:16 pm Don’t be sorry about bringing up anything that is the raw truth. We have had smoke blown up our asses for so long that we need to come back to reality. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 3:03 pm We certainly need a new age of enlightenment in this country. That’s a huge part of our problem. That’s the reason conservatives hate education and science because they realize if people do think for themselves their entire party is doomed. That’s also the reason only 6% of scientists call themselves Republicans. I kid you not it was a recent Pew poll. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 2:17 pm Good point I believe religious fundamentalism is behind many of our problems and something the more secular nations don’t have to worry about impeding their progress. » Posted By KQµårk 死神 On November 1, 2009 @ 2:16 pmComments Posted By KQµårk 死神
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