Plus, for non human cargo and fuel to LEO at 5% of current launch costs. Space gun.
Fuel depot for deep space exploration:
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botchtowersociety
I was going to go, but couldn't make it. I am glad the SS is over, it needs to be replaced by a better, privately developed vehicle. And it will be.
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Other than Michael Jackson, Prince and the Williams sisters, What other entertainmenter and sports figures are JW?
by lehigh01 ini know of a few others.
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When do you think the org reached peak numbers?
by Mickey mouse ini'm talking real numbers here, not the stuff they publish which is skewed by allowing people to count 15 minutes/both parents counting study time with children.
when did they reach their peak publishers?.
my guess would be the early 2000's.
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botchtowersociety
They have the idea that white Americans, even JWs, are rich, privileged, and prejudiced against them.
I spent 30+ years in Hispanic congos, and I never sensed this regarding "white" JWs (Hispanics come "white" too you know. In all the colors from white to black). Other than perhaps one or two situations (which were exceptions to the rule), I certainly never felt that way myself, nor saw any evidence of it in the vast majority of the hispanic brothers I knew.
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Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear
by darthfader incool.... renewable energy production has surpassed nuclear energy production in the u.s. according to the latest issue of monthly energy review published by the energy information administration.
production of alternative energy is also beginning to close in on domestic oil production.. http://domesticfuel.com/2011/07/05/renewable-energy-production-surpasses-nuclear/.
<photon-farming>.
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botchtowersociety
Wind and solar work, but only in conjunction with some sort of steady baseline power generation. With current technology, that means one of the non renewables.
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Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear
by darthfader incool.... renewable energy production has surpassed nuclear energy production in the u.s. according to the latest issue of monthly energy review published by the energy information administration.
production of alternative energy is also beginning to close in on domestic oil production.. http://domesticfuel.com/2011/07/05/renewable-energy-production-surpasses-nuclear/.
<photon-farming>.
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Hydro energy is hardly environmentally friendly. It kills rivers. Corn ethanol is not truly renewable. It is crap. You feed petro products in, you get ethanol out. Those two account for most of the "renewables" share in the pie.
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What is difference between Black Congregations and White Congregations
by Pitchess Co-Gen ini'm from south los angeles and been to black congregations all my life, but i moved 70-75 miles north from where i grew up.
i just want to know the difference ..
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Growing up, English language congos were a minority in my area which was urban. Latino congos literally outnumbered them 25 to 1. When I moved away to a different area a couple of hours away, I attended the local Latino congo. Unlike where I had come from, it was majority Mexican, and was quite different culturally (where I was from it wasn't Mexican, it was Caribbean/S American). Very different as a matter of fact. It was a bit of a culture shock at the start. Also, the quality of the talks and the organization in general was very shabby compared to the polished congos where I had moved from.
There was another congo in the area that formed up that was Spanish speaking. The brothers however, would self segregate. The great majority of the Mexicans in the area attended one, while the Cubans S. Americans etc did the other. The Cubans had a superiority complex I hated. The Mexicans weren't too hot either, but I stayed at the Mex Congo.
I remember my last few years there. 4 congos used our hall: 3 English and 1 Spanish. The contrast was obvious just from looking at the parking lot. The former with expensive cars, BMWs, Benzes, etc. The latter with beat up pickup trucks and vans. I used to borrow a big club van to pick up interested persons at the migrant farmers camp. Since most of those people lived out of town and didn't have transportation, I'd spend much of the rest of the Sunday driving them around to the supermarket etc so they could buy the things they needed. A lot of them didn't know how to read and write, and some of them even had some difficulty speaking Spanish (they spoke native Mexican languages). You can learn a lot about the ways of other people. I also attended a French language congo for a while. It was a small congo with a vast territory. It was 90% black haitian, with a couple of white families from Quebec thrown in.
Our PO didn't speak English, so I often acted as his translator in dealing with correspondence or communications from the English bros. We often had trouble paying our end of the bills, and as account servant, I'd always have to warn the PO when the bank account was running dry. We weren't a wealthy congregation. The wealthy English congos, which were mostly white, wanted to replace everything with new everything all the time and to split the payments 4 ways. I feel that the Spanish language congo was not well or fairly treated by the English bros on top of that. Decisions were often 3 to 1. They had issues of their own. Pissed me off.
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"Philosophy is disfunctional" - Hallq
by bohm inphilosophy is disfunctional.
http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/2011/07/05/philosophy-is-dysfunctiona/.
im now convinced that, as an academic discipline, philosophy is dysfunctional.
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botchtowersociety
Your post is an epic pile of philosphizing bullshit.
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Heavenly Hope
by Quendi inhere are some questions i want to pose to our friends here.
does a person have to be baptized to go to heaven and if one must get baptized, how is this to be arranged and by whom?.
the reason i ask this is many here have professed their belief that they are part of the body of christ, should partake of the emblems whenever they celebrate the lord's supper, and will go to heaven after they die if they have been faithful.
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botchtowersociety
Void's back. :-)
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Who has NOT read Combatting Cult Mind Control or Crisis of Conscience?
by Mad Sweeney ina lot of people here have read and highly recommend ccmc by steven hassan and coc by ray franz, myself included.
i don't know how i would have handled leaving the borg without that knowledge.. so thinking that got me to wondering, who here has not read them (or has read one but not the other), and how are you coping with exiting the borg?
did you get counseling?
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botchtowersociety
I've read CoC, but not CCMC.