Recent content by HowardVAgnew

On the recent news announcement that finds a mismatch in the heavy-to-regular water ratio on 67P found by the Rosetta mission and Earth's oceans, I wonder if the passage of time has been considered? Could the several billion years that comets have been exposed to radiation have increased their...

You seem to have a knack for selective focus, using the generic word "communism" when you mean a specific interpretation of Marxist-Leninist communism and then calling me mis-informed for describing communism in general when that's the term you've been mis-using, with no specifier. I cited a...

Admittedly, I have not followed the topic religiously, but as I confess to being a 'naysayer' -- not a denier, but a "sayer" with some "nays," I would like to communicate my concerns. Humans do stupid things, and certainly the roadway is no exception, but until I see some convincing proof, so...

Spending on social safety network programs is at among its lowest in decades, and the results are devastating. The Lasseiz-faire economic doctrine (the notion that everyone is better off if the market is free of taxes and regulation; by some interpretations by also prohibiting organized labor...

It should not be news to anyone who has followed Obama and Biden since the campaign days: Faith Based Initiatives, a carryover from the Bush era, seeks to "theocratize" social services by replacing, say, government-run non-religious homeless shelters with church-run mission shelters funded by...

I hope some people will read this thread and make efforts when installing bright lights you intend to run all night to ensure the light doesn't bother the neighbors, build a 'shade' of some sort such that the light does not go beyond your own property. I have bad problems with bright security...

I've been searching for information on this, but it comes with a caveat -- I'm wondering if there is a known means by which deposits of petroleum, coal or other "fossil fuel" deposits could be detected remotely with an orbital satellite, but not rely on such fossil fuel material giving any...

This sounds a bit scary on some levels, but if closed track tests are successful test, then yeah, its time to take it to the next level by testing on the open road, with careful monitoring and control, of course.

I am no less tolerant toward communism than capitalism. I am, most definitely, intolerant to witchhunts of the sort committed by the United States government against supposed "communist sympathizers" in the mid-twentieth century spearheaded by McCarthy. Last decade, there were similar...

Communism and democracy are no more mutually exclusive than capitalism and democracy must be "if one then the other as well." There is no inherent "people may not vote" on policies affecting the public whole. At a basic level, communism simply refers to "a social, political and economic...

Haven't most astronauts come from the Air Force or other military branches?

No good reason, no, but that's what we did in Viet Nam. The Communists had popular support, but France and the U.S. refused to let the democratic process possibly choose communism, and just accusing a U.S. citizen of ideologically believing in communism was grounds for serious repercussions...

I view myself as, generally more tolerant than most to most things, but intolerant toward intolerance and not blindly loyal or patriotic to elements of popular culture.

In terms of actual meaning, I don't put too much value in possessing or lacking a Ph.D. Yes, I likely have a bias since I lack one, but I feel, in all fairness, someone who possesses one would also be biased. I don't pretend to have the expertise in any scientific field that those of you who...

The area would vary, of course, with the identical diameters of the circles. Trying to dig down into my rusty brain (I won't pretend any of this is from the top of my head), I would think one solution would be to draw an equilateral triangle between the centerpoints of the circles, compute the...