anon8764

The hyperloop could be related to space if they decide to experiment with slightly altering the trajectory to lead into space, giving it an edge energy-wise to break out of the atmosphere.

It would be a horrible expenditure of resources because when you look at a map of where humans designed and placed their cities, they are inefficient for travel and resource distribution.

Example: Manufacturing parts are created in Tennessee, shipped to Michigan, Manufactured in Michigan, and shipped to Florida to sell/distribute.

Instead, why not ship the raw materials to a equidistant manufacturing node/plant, create the material there, then distribute it. It's not done this way (most efficient) because money/corruption incentivizes backwards thinking of keeping "jobs" in sectors that are a waste of energy to complete and continue. Interesting times we live in.

Here is an example of an efficient and effective city design: http://i.imgur.com/shnIgHn.jpg

By creating abundance, it lessens the need and purpose for armies to take resources from others. There are no armies I am aware of that invade and conquer for Oranges, but they do for Oil.

To complete your second statement, why do you believe we should mine them for gold when we cannot efficiently manage them here on Earth to begin with?

Life is too short. I'd spend a week with full rest, clean food and water, determine your happiness level there, then decide. Sounds like you are trying to mask the core/root of the problem, a bad environment for you.

Also keep in mind that Elon Musk is trying this, but as a bastardization of its potential. What do I mean by this? The shortest distance between two points is a straight line (currently). Look at a map. The cities that were cultivated where they are geographically located are influenced by (Water + Politics + Monetary incentives to build roads closer to smaller cities to draw business (corruption) ) So if this hyperloop does pick up, it will be a horrible expenditure of resources.

I personally believe people do not deserve to go to space yet.

They haven't mastered the ability to house, clothe, and feed the human family yet, despite having the technical ability to do so. As a result of this, you see the derivatives that exist today. Walk among Miami at night and you see homeless crackheads muttering to themselves while sipping on beer. The conditions that cause a person to do this would be probabilistically lower with a society that cares about one another more [designed-in] instead of fighting amongst each-other for paper slips.

If we absolutely need to go to space, we require research to determine the amount of materials needed to build this track length, and the renewability of those materials in reference to the earth. If this request for the materials meets a certain threshold, it will be dispensed, otherwise, the remaining materials can be reserved for further research to create synthetic alternatives. It helps to have a global database of known resources and their reserves, in fact, it might be a crucial requirement.

Imagine culling redis for this information, it sends a request to the global cybernetic hub, and it permits or denies the request, along with the terminal node you requested it to be sent to...

example: I request 13 Ounces of Gold (AU) at terminal #324-214-495-2341 to perform an experiment. (Since gold is currently in enough abundance for my request it is sent to my terminal as soon as technically possible, and any of the resource I do not use or can scrap back to the global hub, is done so)

I prefer a Resource-based Economy (rather than the failed money-strived attempts) that has a central hub for resource-distribution to all humans based on global reserves to raise the standard of living for all instead of a select few which every monetary system has ultimately created.

This would make an interesting topic to discuss how to design this system with our current tech, but that's another thread altogether.

My logic is based on numbers. Earth Population, Imaginary lines in the sand, War over money. These are not signs of intelligence, especially when they have only 1 planet to survive on that gets more populated every day with little regard to long-term resource management, although I am proud of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. :)

This type of planning worked for Voyager (NASA/JPL).

fyi: cars suck. Dirty, inefficient, and it follows the same logic of giving every person in a 200 person hotel an individual elevator. It makes no sense, when you can instead design cities and transportation to be like the site I linked above (www.et3.com).

It's their choice though, if they want faster horses instead of cars, so be it. If they want faster cars instead of et3, so be it.

They prop and fall on their own sword I suppose.

Perhaps technology has advanced too fast for the "culture". Perhaps we should design our intentions before we build the tech, and not the other way around. Look at NASA for inspiration on design and forethought.

www.et3.com gradually leading up to the top of everest, jettisoning the capsule (6,500 km/h (4,000 mph)) to break out of the atmosphere.

I have not done the math, physics, etc on this, but it's an interesting idea worth exploring.

But that said, do we really belong in space when we cannot care for our own? Wouldn't that be akin to giving sugar to ants? only multiplying suffering and cruelty exponentially in space? Perhaps a refactoring of our culture and our methods of using/allocating/expending resources should be our first priority.

Seems like they don't care about solving problems, but instead, profiting from them. ;)

by working in an environment of adults :)

> All of Earth, considered as a whole, has nothing to compare itself to.

Except other planets.

> Comments like this break the HN guidelines about civility.

Understandable. I take that comment back, I respect the opinions of people here on hn more than that of other forums.

> Obama's birth certificate surely also qualifies as a "classic flamewar topic", so you've broken the guidelines there too.

Not trying to start any flame war, just wanted to know if anyone validated these variables, just as you would ensure a class was properly initialized before calling its getters. Purely after the data.

> We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, so please read and follow them when posting on this site.

Very well. Thank you for the subsequent information.

Seems they have diluted/modified the rules:

https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/is-your-child-a-us-citize...

"As with other areas of immigration and naturalization in this post-9/11 world, the guidelines change often. As such, these rules only apply to those children born on or after the effective date of the CCA."

I'm not even sure this applies to Obama, so again, the validity is questionable.

So anyways, we would just need to validate the rules with all presidents. Where can we currently view that these rulesets have been validated and view their corresponding documents? Does anyone know? This seems like a somewhat important question if someone wants to be called president.

Also, why did you bring up race? This validation process should be applied to every potential president regardless of race. Politely, get off your politically correct high horse.