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The reason you don't get flying cars, is the very same, you cant make a lot of other technology. People will want to invent the flying car parking house. And th
by PicassoCTs 6y ago
The reason you don't get flying cars, is the very same, you cant make a lot of other technology. People will want to invent the flying car parking house. And they kind of did - on the 11 of September 2001. You can not hand technology over a certain level to a infantile (nicer sound then retarded) species. Its that simple.
Its already madness to allow wealthy citizens into space. Tesla and Amazon are one freight flight to space, filled with tungsten rods, away from becoming there own nation - with non-nuclear deterrence. That somebody - whoever it is, out there is getting humankinds tech progress to a grinding halt, is a blessing in disguise. We actually do not even get a honest discussion about the risks on this path.
Problem is though, we always scienced our way out of our problems with our volatile nature. Tap some energy here, create some fertilizer there, oversupply solves the problems we do not want to solve. Exponential supply for exponential unchecked demand.
Enter social tech- in theory we could limit ourselves, could curb our demands, could become starving monks in the desert, hypnotized by coloured lights playing across enchanted stones. This seems to be the road we need to take, for the other road to be traverse-able.
- Guthur 6y agoOk, you head on out to the desert, we'll be right behind you... promise.
- PicassoCTs 6y agoI do not get it- why is exponential powerful tech, such a serious matter if somebody wants a nuke (Iran, North-Korea) or even just proliferate per-existing ones, considered a serious issue. But once a entity with clear interests in venturing outside the sphere of law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Breakup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Breakup) and the monetary/organizational power to acquire such tech, ventures towards something similar classifiable, such a threat is a joking matter? Also if you stream a movie tonight, like millions others, who just have a roof, food and a flickering screen that sand in the dessert might be very fine integrated - and already have gotten everywhere. So nobody is asking you or me, might as well discuss the scenarios.
- jodrellblank 6y agoOK, SpaceX applies to launch an orbital bombardment cannon and launch approval is denied. That was a good day, next. OK, SpaceX ignores the denial and launches anyway. Elon Musk threatens to destroy Washington DC to gain independence for ... some territory somewhere. Unclear where, or why he'd want that since he already has enormous wealth and influence and doesn't need to run his own military to keep it. The United States arrests Elon Musk and seizes all of SpaceX with overwhelming military might. The end. Is that really as threatening as North Korea developing nuclear weapons?
- Roboprog 6y agoI think you meant to say “tungsten rods”, rather than titanium. the composition of the drop weapons doesn’t change the gist though. Titanium is used in airframes for its strength to weight ratio (it’s not very dense). Tungsten is used in weapons for its high hardness and density.
- PicassoCTs 6y agoI stand corrected.
- WalterBright 6y ago> Its already madness to allow wealthy citizens into space. ?? > filled with tungsten rods, away from becoming there own nation - with non-nuclear deterrence. In WW1, they tried dropping flechettes onto troops. Didn't work. As for becoming a nation, that's hardly going to work without the launch/recovery site being part of that nation.
- paulmd 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
- WalterBright 6y agoI doubt the ability to lift enough of them into orbit to make a difference.
- FpUser 6y ago>"...This seems to be the road we need to take..." We who? You are more than welcome to starve in a desert. Just do not count on any companionship.