Götterdämmerung;3035855 said:
Did I say anything else but about esthetic? And isn't estethic one of the most important part of city planing?
It is? If so, then fire codes should be scrapped, nein?
Götterdämmerung;3035855 said:
What is so tepid in my respons? Clearify!
Of course it was tepid. You evaded the issue altogether. By your arguments and beliefs, mankind would have never progressed beyond the agricultural stage. No one would dare to explore the unknown. Go back and read my post again, if you have the courage.
Götterdämmerung;3035855 said:
Yes, you reasoned that there were no utility poles in the Kaiserstrasse because you assumed there was no electricity in 1890 in Frankfurt.
Dead issue. Now you know better because I led you to the pond of electricity knowledge and you drank. Good boy.
Götterdämmerung;3035855 said:
It was a pionneer and grand experiment and it failed, thus there is no current and forseable programme to continue this project.
AC have been existing since WWII with a host of developements and a series of successing generations of AC. The Space Shuttle never had a successor and a more superior successor is nowhere to be seen.
So now you are making the assumption that the manned space program with reusable vehicles concept is dead?
This is why I laughed at the both of you, you and the Chinese-American with whom you are yanking each other's d1cks via the 'Thank' button, the one that responded about the patent on the steam engine, totally missing the point.
But I will school you both...
Practically all of Asia bypassed the steam engine and the Industrial Revolution. What I mean is that despite the Chinese discovery of steam pressure and made some gadgets with it, they really did nothing with it. Despite the Chinese who pretty much invented the wheelbarrow, scientists and engineers wondered why they never progressed to the next logical step -- the bicycle. It took the Westerners to fully exploit the steam engine and to create the next logical progression of man and machine. The Westerners paid the price, money and human, to discover principles and the exploit them. Then they exported their discoveries and inventions to everywhere they traveled.
The recipients of these inventions and devices also paid their own prices in incorporating them into their own societies. Some sooner than others. Some faster than others. Some could not at all. Some it is/was obvious that they never will be able to. Give the disassembled bicycle to some aboriginal people anywhere and they will use it for something else. But the point is that for sophisticated peoples like the Chinese, the Japanese, or the Koreans, their societies have had their own successes that they do not need to experience the pains of discoveries and development of the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, the printing press, and many more, in order to progress.
Which lead us back to the Space Shuttle. Calling it a 'failure' is being spectacularly shortsighted and ignorant. Whatever man does, we prefer to do it while we are 'there', meaning, was it necessary for a human being to be in the cockpit when the aircraft broke Mach? No, it was not necessary. But we want to anyway and we did it anyway. Same for the Moon program. How many have gone back to the Moon since then? None. But no one is calling the Apollo program a 'failure'. Why? Because the Chinese wanted to go there next and if the Chinese wanted to go, calling the Apollo program a 'failure' would mean criticizing the Chinese and that would be unthinkable for the anti-US crowd.
Manned reusable space vehicles are inevitable. Manned anything is part of our human nature and someone must take the first risk, financial and human, to explore that unknown. If not US, then it would have been the Russians or the Chinese. But since it was US and not the Chinese, then the venture
MUST be opined as a 'failure' to appease one's own hypocrisy.
Manned reusable space vehicles are already being readied for the next generation of humanity with the Boeing X-37. The lessons learned from the Space Shuttle program are far more valuable and insightful than yours and the Chinese boys' simple minds can see. The US took the lead and we will keep that lead until your great grandchildrens' lifetimes.
Götterdämmerung;3035855 said:
What physics justifies ugly and messy utility poles? Explain!
Are you that fracking helpless with the search engine and keywords...???
Overhead line versus buried cable
In addition, underground cables radiate heat. This has an effect on soil humidity, which, for example, can lead to drainage or drying out of marshes.
The 380-kV extra-high-voltage network in Germany and Europe is currently almost exclusively composed of overhead lines.
But hey, we Americans have never expected intellectual honesty from Eurosnobs in the first place.
Götterdämmerung;3035855 said:
Haha, we have been talking about civilian products (white goods) and seeing yourself losing the argument you have to resort to weapons to make a point. Pathetic!
You know what? Our military spending is ridiculously tiny and most of our money goes to welfare and improving the life of our citizens, making our cities more beautiful by burying our power line underneath not to murder people far from our home in order to loot and plunder.
...You have your criteria and I have mine.
