SL5

• SL5 2 Oct 2008 19:45 UTC

  0 points

  on: Try­ing to Try

  Before the project to actually build space flight capability (or nuclear explosives or computers or any other friggin’ hard thing) was started, engineers had to have ‘yes’ to every “is x possible” question. If they had a ‘dunno’, they had to figure it out, experimentally or/​and theoretically. If something was a ‘no’ - there was no point in trying.

  http://​​en.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​Feasibility_study

• SL5 2 Oct 2008 10:59 UTC

  1 point

  on: Awww, a Zebra

  Through his cerebrations Eliezer appears to have attracted the Cream of the Singularitarian Crop here, who are now Collectively Disappointed.