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I think I've seen this movie before; just don't let anybody touch the strange Sphere thing and you should be alright. Seriously though, this doesn't make much
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I think I've seen this movie before; just don't let anybody touch the strange Sphere thing and you should be alright.
Seriously though, this doesn't make much sense to me. Finding shipwrecks even when you know they exist and what general area they should be in is hard enough. This sort of search is a huge money sink, the ships, towed sonars, etc all cost a ton of money to operate.
- gfodor 4y ago$1.5M ain’t much depending on your priors and how much you value the discovery of extraterrestrial tech.
- jmull 4y agoLet’s estimate the expected value for that $1.5M… My estimate is something less than $0.01.
- gfodor 4y agoYou have it backwards, you have to calculate the expected value of the mission and see if it’s less than 1.5M. For example, if odds of success are one in 10k for a discovery worth $1T then it works out.
- jmull 4y agoI’m afraid we’re taking about the same expected value: odds of success * value of success
- upupandup 4y agoha! I was gonna mention that movie here but I don't know what to make of this. This professor seems legitimately convinced its possible but who will believe him?
- jaredhallen 4y agoRight. And magnets? How do we know it's ferrous?
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