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It'll be a cooperative effort if it ever happens.

You might find this interesting; http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1534/1

And of course there's also the 'security measure' that they don't actually intend to land the falcon second stage.

Falcon must have some kind of destruct mechanism, it wouldn't get FAA approval to fly without one.

The SRB's weren't refitted, they were dismantled and some pieces used to assemble new ones. It was literally just as expensive as building them from scratch.

What life? What creatures are supposed to be living in central Antarctica?

I know one of these has functional thrusters and can be used for ISS reboost between Progress visits; I strongly suspect it's Zvezda, although I don't know for certain. Probe-and-drogue is standard on the ROS, no Russian vehicle has actually used APAS since the Soyuz' built for ASTP (although Buran was designed to).

How exactly do you propose life is supposed to occur without any solvents and almost no energy input? It's fundamentally a set of chemical reactions, you won't find it where reactions can't occur.

Well, there'd be no solvents, almost no energy input, and the most likely precursors to life (RNA nucleotides) are, as far as we can tell, completely absent.

He formally tried to synonymise them (and Sinornitholestes) in his 1988 paper 'The small predatory dinosaurs of the mid-mesozoic', available here.

You're mixing definitions. We didn't think a functioning ecosystem could work long-term without light, we don't believe any organism could survive in a nebula or a on a comet.

What I think he meant was that the particles gain *some* mass from the Higgs field, which is what K2 noted. The issue seems to be the specialist versus non-specialist interpretations of the phrase 'gain mass'.

That's... not quite right. Here's a modern consensus evolutionary tree (cobbled together by me in 5 minutes, sorry for the crowding) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77142205/Achtes%20RP/New%20folder/Tech/phylo.png The basic split within tetrapoda (anything closer to us than amphibians) is between synapsids and sauropsids. Synapsids are mammals and their extinct relatives, whereas sauropsids are a good bit more diverse. Living sauropsids can be divided into two more groups; squamates, which are the lizards and snakes, and archosaurs which are currently birds and crocodiles (don't ask about turtles). Dinosaurs are on the archosaur clade, and birds are deeply nested within dinosauria. EDIT: It was mooted in multiple papers written in the 80s by Gregory S. Paul. Very few paleontologists went along with it, but GSP was one of the scientific consultants on the film, so it went it.

Actually that's not feathery enough. We know Dromeosaurs weren't just fluffy, they had full primary and secondary feathers, including wings. Try this one for size; EDIT: Also the hands are pronated and the proportions are very odd.

A human would be a better match for dinosaur DNA than a frog.

The picture is also a link.

Given the distance between any of the pads and Tyrtuyam itself, it's not exactly likely. It's never happened so far after a total of about 3,000 launches. In the US, it used to be a lot more likely; there were trailer parks within the KSC EDIT: Vandenburg boundary, quite close to the pads. The closest they got to killing somebody was probably this; trailer was occupied, but fortunately not by anybody standing in the middle.

Using the 'we don't know very much at all' as an excuse to not actually try to learn anything is not helpful; all it does is perpetuate your own ignorance.

No decision is to be made until after the TsNIIMash evaluation is finished, which it isn't. Don't confuse industry proposals with government policy, you've been prone to do that with both Chinese and Russian developments.

Angara A7 would require a completely new launch pad and upper stage; neither are funded. Russia has a SHLV program that should be announcing a design selection soon enough, but the schedule is uncertain due to the current Russian federal government budget issues.

In the late 90's, a Chinese rocket failed to even attempt to take off. Not an abort; the countdown hit zero, with everything apparently going fine, and absolutely nothing happened. Fortunately they were able to carefully defuel the rocket, safe all the explosives, and fly it successfully a few weeks later.

Completely breaks down if you look at mobile games, though. The mobile versions of XCOM-or even the touch version of Civ V-have no more inputs than flappy bird.

How would you accelerate a neutron? It has no charge.

You might want to try looking into what a 'dimension' is, using a source that's not an awful sci-fi book.

There was a real flat earth society, and the original members were very much sincere. Whether any of them are involved with that website, or if they even still exist, is much less clear.