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QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:15 PM) 53 ABs and counting since Dunn's last homer. I believe he only has 6 hits in those 53 ABs. Followed by 3/3, 2 HR

Even the Audio guys are so excited they're screwing up!

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 08:57 PM) Seriously? How do they propose on making this happen? Are they going to build some sort of bubble that we can live on that is airconditioned, etc? 20-30 years from now seems incredibly optimistic. That's why the date keeps getting pushed back. At some level yes, that's what you'd need to do: create a habitat, probably so that you can produce fuel On the surface, hence the need for heavy lift rockets. But if you're going there, you put the people there for 6 months or more just because the trip there is so long. Honestly, if the money was there, 2030 would probably be beatable. But it's kinda pricey. Apollo was a Manhattan Project level commitment. We just landed a river on Mars for 1/6 the cost of the Olympics because that's all the money available.

China is still developing rockets with the lift Capacity of a US Delta rocket, and that still doesn't measure up to the legendary Saturn V. If money keeps going to the Space Launch System, which will hopefully multiply our launch weight capacity by something like a factor of 5, then the US will have the rocket to pull off people outside of the Earth Moon system. The goal for that is ~2020. Will it happen? That's up to Congress and the Voters this November.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:15 PM) 53 ABs and counting since Dunn's last homer. I believe he only has 6 hits in those 53 ABs. Dunn.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:42 PM) I'm just saying what I heard from the guy who works for NASA so ya. The video should be on the Aots website tomorrow, I'll post it. Good interview, even though the guy doing the interview is a tool. He also said next December, we'll have something orbiting Mars. Also maybe the "much" word was a bit of an overreaction but I did hear theyre closer. We currently have several things orbiting Mars. One of them took a great picture earlier in this thread. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey are the 2 currently active ones, both of which also are used to relay data from the rovers to Earth, since the Rovers can't point to Earth directly. The next thing we'll be sending to Mars is called "MAVEN", The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN probe. Its a small NASA mission, Discovery class. Its goal is to see how the atmosphere of Mars interacts with the solar wind...Mars used to have an atmosphere, it's lost now, and really we don't know quite how fast it's been lost or what the mechanisms of loss were. MAVEN's job is to figure out what interactions take place and how fast the atmosphere was lost.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:35 PM) Peavy on the mound and a s***load of Manto praise on the broadcast. Double whammy. This has the makings of the Sox struggling to score. Villaneuva's breaking ball has been flat filthy so far.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:29 PM) There was someone from NASA on Attack of the show...He said it's always been "30 years away" and apparently still is. I guess China is much closer to it than the US and have made "great strides" towards it. He says he thinks we need to make it a joint opp with China to make it happen. China is not "Much closer to Mars" than the U.S. They could get ahead of the US eventually, if the U.S. continues to cut back on its space exploration budget and they expand theirs. However, that's no where close to true now. We may need a joint Opp to do it, but that's only because the U.S. is gutting its space exploration budgets.

Rios seems like he knows that RF wall.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:05 PM) Hitler is the most evil man of all time. Pretty incredible but he certainly tops the list. History is one of those things that is always relative. Stalin's efforts and Mao's efforts led to the deaths of far more people. Guys throughout history have done more demented, bloody things. Yet there really is this "technological murder" side we don't see in many other cases.

QUOTE (Al Lopez's Ghost @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 05:41 PM) Robin said PK's exam went well, he'll start stationary bike and some other physical activity. Per a tweet from sox van. Vans can tweet?

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 04:40 PM) How far off are we from putting Humans on Mars? The supposed goal is in the 2030's. With the current round of budget cuts, I'd say most people are skeptical.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 11:57 AM) are we always going to have those black gaps in pictures? I feel like i am looking at the dark knight spoilers thread in picture form Different rover, but how's this?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 02:50 PM) Can you picture a scenario in which the White Sox ever replace Robin Ventura? He's proven he's not a buffoon and knows how to manage, which is not rocket science. He's already proven he's as good as anybody they could get nowadays. He is the opposite of Ozzie mouth-wise, so he'll never get himself fired. That leaves him stepping down some day on his own. I would assume he's set for life financially five times over, so I guess he could tire of the grind. If he truly loves baseball, I think he's our manager the next 25 years. How can the Sox ever fire Robin Ventura? That can't happen cause of his name and history with the franchise. Miss the playoffs and underperform for 2-3 years or so and the Chicago Media will be happy to ask whether Robin is going to be replaced every day.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 02:25 PM) On this team, the smart move is to take the better defender. That is the primary thing we need out of our 4th OF, especially with Dayan Viciedo in LF. Is Danks really that far ahead of Wise on defense?

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 11:58 AM) I believe Porcello leads all MLB pitchers in errors this year with 5 After the 2006 world series, one might think that Leyland really doesn't do PFP during the spring.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) He's definitely not a scorer yet. A reasonable expectation would be something like 8-8 with a bunch of blocks, possibly a bit better. NOLA is at least a year away I would think, maybe more. They really only have one decent perimeter player right now (Vasquez is alright at best, and Rivers will probably have adjustment issues early on in the NBA). We'll also have to see how good Ryan Anderson is without Dwight drawing double-teams and covering for him defensively. Of course, if you keep adding Lottery picks to that NOLA lineup, even late lottery picks, they could become even more formidable as Davis's game develops

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 10:47 AM) I think .750 to .800 is about his ceiling. Add his plus defense, and that really isn't bad. What do you think his chances are of reaching that ceiling?

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 09:54 AM) When it became clear that it was a matter of when instead of if the USA and USSR were going to join that war Hitler made a gambit to knock the USSR out before the USA could join in. That's the only real explanation for opening up the Eastern Front, Germany simply didn't have the time to arduously break Britain's back by tying up all their resources in the Battle of the Atlantic and battling the RAF (which ended up being ridiculously underestimated by just about everyone). This is especially true when you consider the UK had no real means to launch any offensive campaigns after Dunkirk. Either way, the gambit failed, the UK proved to be extraordinarily resilient in the face of terror-bombings and the combination of rapid transition in wartime industry and the Japanese not waiting at least 6 more months to drag the USA into the war were just too much for Germany to bear. I honestly believe the German war machine could have withstood any one of those things, but all of them was just a bit overkill. The other explanation for the war against Russia is that conquering Russia for Germany was such a long term goal that Hitler wrote about it in the 20's and it was an ideological move.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 09:47 AM) I really don't think many realize Jordan is not some 21 year old phenom. He's actually a month older than Beckham. Ah, it was Lastings Milledge. Yeah, the uproar over Lilli being kept and Milledge released.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 09:36 AM) Right now the longest tenured Mgr in baseball was hired in 2004.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 09:37 AM) I've never seen such dissappointment over a 26 year old with 49 career ABs and a .621 OPS being sent down to the minors for 3 weeks. Remember when they kept Lillibridge on the roster last April and sent down/released "I can't remember who they released"?

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 10:53 PM) I remember my public schools teaching that what we did to Germany would likely now be considered a war crime. Yay for realistic public school history education. QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 09:31 AM) War crimes, schwar crimes. If any people in the history of the world earned what they got, it was the Germans and Japanese during WWII. QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 09:36 AM) The Dresden fire bombings were pretty awful. One of the remarkable things about all 3 of these posts is...they're basically all correct.

Hi-Res panorama.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 12:55 AM) While that's the conventional wisdom, I'm not so sure Stalin wouldn't have broken the treaty anyway, and then Germany would still be in a 2-front war, but starting from a worse position in the East. On his death bed, Stalin said something along the lines of "alongside the Germans we would have been invincible". Stalin believed he had taken the first steps towards and alliance that would dominate the globe. You can actually see that with how they reacted to the German troop movements in early 1941...it was literally "sticking their fingers in their ears". They didn't want to hear from the British that the Germans were moving troops East, they didn't want to hear it from their own commanders, they didn't want to hear it from their own reconnaissance. They maintained the weakest border position possible in order to make sure they didn't give Germany any ideas that they might act aggressively. If the Russians had even begun deploying forces for offense against the Germans, they wouldn't have collapsed so completely in 1941.