75% automated . . .

I am not impressed with Russian weapons systems and even less by Soviet one's.

The Soviet's could not target anywhere close to U.S. Nuclear Missile accuracy so what they made up for in accuracy they added explosive Kiloton-age.

If only 100 of the 500 Kiloton warhead detonated that would pretty much end Humanity and we both have thousands upon thousands....not as many of the combined over 150,000 Nuclear Warheads both nations once had....but still too many.

AboveAlpha

 

Just to add.....an area where a 500 Kiloton to 1.2 Megaton Blast is over when it detonates is not safe for Human habitation for over a MILLION YEARS OR MORE!!!

AboveAlpha

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Or European Socialist Term.

AboveAlpha

 

They can be prepared to work in a versatile field. It will take more time and education that is for sure.

 

We MUST make Mathematics, Science, Computer Science and Physics and Chemistry mandatory classes not elective!!!
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Sorry, but that's impossible. You don't have the educators or the necessary mindset of the students to even think about doing that.

You're lucky if your students learn how to read.

 

We have plenty of students who do just fine.

But we need to do better.

Just remember....the largest number of Nobel Prize Winners are American's working in American Colleges and Universities and Institutes.

There are more Colleges, Universities and Institutes of considered Top Level in the U.S. than in every other nation combined.

But we could still do better.

AboveAlpha

 

http://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/PISA-2012-results-US.pdf

If you thnk 26th out of 34 OECD countries is doing just fine, then your standards are lower than mine.

And Obama won a peace prize... I didn't know anybody still took those things seriously.

 

I am aware of the numbers and the Obama thing was ridiculous.

But we have a very large population.

By numbers alone our good students exist in greater numbers.

And you cannot deny that every single world changing and economic changing Technology has been developed in the United States and continues to be so.

But we need to do better.

AboveAlpha

 

Yes, there are many things that have come from Americans that we can point to and say "did the Chinese invent the smart phone?" or "Did the europeans invent the airplane?" and it really looks good when you look at it like that, but those things are from a few people who had a vision and drive to succeed.

The sad fact is that the overall numbers don't point to being able to compete with Latvia and Vietnam if things keep going the way they are. Those numbers have been going down while the rest of the world has been going up. And you think we can start pushing them even harder? Judging by the average literacy levels of facebook users, I'm not exactly optimistic.

 

We need to stop making the study of 12th century plays mandatory and start making Physics, Calculus and Chemistry mandatory and not elective!!!

Although there is a lot of engineers in the U.S....I would rather there be more engineers coming out of college than Middle School Teachers!!

AboveAlpha

 

good luck!

[video=youtube;cJn7KBQnjXU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJn7KBQnjXU[/video]

 

The greatest advantage U.S. Students have is FREEDOM.

Freedom to think what they want to think.

Freedom to believe they can develop something even if the establishment say's it can't or should not be done!

Example.....the PC....GPS.....INTERNET.....CELL AND SMART PHONES....all U.S.

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE.

NASA's Gravity Probe A and B which confirmed Gravity is NOT A FORCE but SPACE-TIME CURVATURE and other aspects of Einstein's Theories.

You know why the U.S. Government cancelled the Desertron....a Supercollider in Texas that would make the LHC look like a DOUGHNUT??? And we cancelled this back in the 1980's???

Because we already KNEW the answers!

Whatever levels of technological advancements the world currently exists at today.....multiple that time a Century or More and you would still not grasp just how far in advancement some U.S. Military along with Civilian Contractors Projects deep in the American Deserts exist at today.

In some areas we are so advanced that just the mere release of these facts would be enough to cause panic throughout the world.

AboveAlpha

 

Me? I'm waiting for the day when we can download the knowledge into our minds.

I wish I had that when I was a teenager... for all kinds of things.

 

THAT....is already here!

Not available for human use for....20 years....maybe less.

You need to have Nanobots that can continue to prevent infection at a PORT SOURCE.

We already know a great deal as far as how the human brain stores data.

Hey.....a person can put on a Helmet and think and a computer will target a fake threat of a tank or plane on a video game!!

We are very close to many things.

But WARP DRIVE???

Something is very much up as far as this!

AboveAlpha

 

and most dreamed up by eggheads from the 60s and 70s in government laboratories and universities. The only thing really coming out of government labs these days are military money pits, and universities have perfected the idea of safe rooms and feminist slam poetry.

However, since you focus on those inventions and ideas that come from Americans, that still leaves an awful lot of people who aren't going to financially benefit from whatever it is, and sure the hell won't know how it works.

And will it come from the states? The great technological revolutions of yesteryear would be illegal to even attempt today. The history of flight involved a lot of fools jumping off buildings wearing chicken suits or flying in contraptions that probably didn't have mandatory airbags. The steam engine would have every tree hugger in the country up in arms. California can't even build a bullet train, and that technology has been around since the 50s! I just checked and it still appears to be nothing more than hot air from moonbeam, some fancy CGI videos, and a few piles of rubble.

 

They don't built Bullet Trains because American's are too attached to our cars.

AboveAlpha

 

We could be simplifying government and helping our environment with advances in new technologies. Waste water management should include industrial waste management as well. The public sector can maximize those means of production to cost effective scale factors. Recycling is one example where all material is placed in an appropriate container and recycled before being transferred to a landfill.

I believe high speed mass transit could go underground and potentially take advantage of any vacuum, enabled.

 

Why a port? You know we have wireless technology now, right?

And about that Warp Drive? You know Snowden, or Iran, or someone leaked out that there was a conspiracy with some 'Tall Whites' aliens and President Obama? That US policy has had an extraterrestrial agenda since the 1940s?? And we're in the 'final phase' of assimilation?

 

I agree about the 12th century plays, but is making another class mandatory really going to do anything but deter students? I love science, but I enjoy science classes a lot less because I'm forced to take them and they're not tailored to my specific needs and interests (paradoxically since society is supposedly individualistic).

 

Sure, that's the safest and least ecologically harmful method. I'm sure it would only raise the price tag from the current over-budget 80 billion to a mere 300 billion.

 

I don't necessarily agree with all of this, but here's an optimistic view of the year 2050:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/care...fferent-in-2050/ar-BBovdKg?li=BBnb7Kz#page=10

 

You want to be Hacked???

AboveAlpha

 

What's the Democratic party going to do without the trade unions ? Are they going to file bankruptcy ?
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There are certain aspects of science and mathematics everyone needs just to get through daily life never mind change students into engineers instead of SOCIAL WORKERS!!!

Physics, Chemistry, Algebra I, II, Trig., Analysis, Calculus.

Here is a basic algebra question EVERYONE should be able to answer and if they can't....this shows us how bad the problem is.

If you KNOW THE ANSWER...PM ME.....DON'T POST IT HERE!!

I would like to see how many people KNOW the answer to this BEYOND EASY Algebra Question.

One man takes 24 to paint a house.

Another different man takes only 16 hours to paint the same house.

If they both work together and start at the same time....how long should it take both men to paint the same house together?


Question #2....and this a person should be able to answer WITHOUT USING ALGEBRA OR MATHEMATICS AS THE ANSWER IS BUT SIMPLE LOGIC...but I will ask it anyways.

Question #2....Which way is the cheapest way to get your house painted if you are paying $15 an hour under the table to anyone who paints?

AboveAlpha

 

Well, we aren't there yet and this is what we see now.

[video=youtube;arOGHY27JwI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arOGHY27JwI[/video]