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Radiocarbon dating only works for the past few tens of thousands of years, and is dependent on potentially variable rates of production and uptake of carbon-14. The forms of radioisotope dating actually usable for fossils (e.g. U-Pb) are dependent on the constant conversion from an initial isotope to a daughter one over long periods of time; they are only dependent on decay rates, which are probably not variable and known to be not variable enough to significantly effect dating results.

RNA bases are pretty common in primordial organic material (e.g. CC asteroids), and all you need for a first organism is a single molecule of sufficiently efficient RNA replicase. Regardless, that hardly means we can assume animals and plants could be unrelated; that would mean covergent evolution of the transcription and translation, the genetic code, two instances of incorporation of mitochndrions, and a heck of a lot more. There's not a single organism known that doesn't have the same or only a slightly modified genetic code, whereas in your case it'd be unlikely for them to even all use DNA.

They do plan to increase crew size, but only by one.

That's not an optimisation problem-apple has the exact same issue if you don't pretend old models cease to exist when new ones come out-it's simply Samsung bloatware. Try something like a nexus 7; you'll be presently surprised.

Again, if you wrote that on an apple device, you've completely disproved everything you've said about ease of use. Either that or you've lost the ability to format paragraphs or use vaguely correct grammar and punctuation midway through this thread.

That's damning with faint praise.

Did you write that on an apple device?

If you want people to stop bragging and trying to achieve fame, you're going to have to remove something a good bit more fundamental than facebook. The frontal lobe, perhaps.

If you try working the way around, lithium and magnesium can act as fuels with nitrogen as the oxidiser; I can't find anything showing the actual speed of the reaction (other than it being referred to as 'burning' rather than just 'oxidising'), but I doubt it's all that slow. Perhaps metallic Li/Mg particles in an inert binder?

The 2013 Proton failure, and it's antecedents. Assembly-line work, and rocket construction is no exception, is typically dependent on inspection of components beforehand and basically assuming the workers have done their job properly.

It's an image-hosting service with some terrible filters. That's all it is. Nobody will even remember it in a couple of year's time.

How old are you?

According to who? The manufacturer refers to it solely as; Soyuz, Soyuz-[insert variant name here] or by the GRAU designation (11A511XX for original and 14A1X for Soyuz-2). R-series designations are used solely for missiles; as has been stated upthread, it'd be like calling the Atlas V the SM-65 Atlas V. Even the original booster for Sputnik was Sputnik-PS or 8K71PS, never R7-anything. The accident dismantled it. It wasn't exactly a lightly-built building, and the roof was heavy enough to completely destroy it.

Timeline doesn't work. By the time Buran was finally cancelled, Zenit was being built and marketed from independent Ukraine.

Yes, had a brainfart, corrected. My point still stands however. This doesn't make any sense. If the stage was going to be reusable, and if as you propose that'd lead to significant cost savings, why stop development due to cancellation of a completely different rocket?

That's the theory. In reality, despite many launches of only slightly modified Energiya boosters as Zenit core stages, not one has ever been recovered. It's two completely different kinds of work. Rocket construction is a lot easier to reduce to tasks on an assembly line than careful inspection and refurbishment.

Because iOS is closed source, it's not generally possible to produce custom version of it; this means all jailbreak generally allows you to do is add unauthorised apps, which android allows anyway through sideloading. You're not going to get something like cyanogenmod on iOS.

Don't forget price. Thanks mostly to Motorola, there are android phones in the ~£100 price bracket that work very well for anything other than the latest 3D games. By comparison, the only apple products available 'new' (i.e. been sitting in a warehouse for four years) in that price range are the iphone or iphone 3g, both of which are completely inadequate now.

I'm not sure mosses actually have an active immune system.

Anything curved will result in wasted space, surely? It's not like it really has to hold that much pressure.

Well, the ignore function exists for a reason. Has anybody here had experience with Bada/Tizen? What did you think of it?

I'm genuinely starting to believe this is some kind of prototype apple propoganda-spewing chatbot. Although if it is, it needs work.

If this was true, Zenit (the cheapest launch vehicle available) would be selling like hot cakes, everybody's backup would be Proton (the second cheapest) and none of the others would get a look-in; but in actual fact, Zenit has no upcoming customers and the company behind it is about to go bankrupt (again), the provides of Proton just announced major job losses to fit with a reduced launch schedule, and Ariane V, Atlas V and Falcon 9 are all booked solid for the next several years. Why? Because actual satellite operators dislike risk nearly as much as NASA, and with good reason. The launch cost is always only a small proportion of the mission cost; cutting it in exchange for significantly increased risk to the payload and entire mission simply makes no sense from an economic standpoint.

And Samsung is bigger than android, which makes the op question make even less sense. They have phones using in-house OS's (Bada and Tizen) as well as this monstrosity;

Yes. It still doesn't work, and it still makes you look like a tit to try it. I'm sure you do, looking through this thread. Do you have any actual experience with android devices? You still seem to have no idea there's anything other than Samsung devices, and even official Apple media has more nuance than that. Have you heard of Tizen?