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Extend past a few decades. A post-scarcity society would almost certainly search every square metre of the ocean for this airplane, assuming humans are still ma
by MichaelGG 12y ago
Extend past a few decades. A post-scarcity society would almost certainly search every square metre of the ocean for this airplane, assuming humans are still making decisions.
- stouset 12y agoYou say "post-scarcity" like it's an inevitable scenario. Resources are finite. Energy is finite. Exponential growth doesn't last forever.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago> Energy is finite. With enough renewable energy from the sun, there is very little we're constrained by http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf "All together, the technical potentials can be estimated to be: Solar electricity: 89,000 TWc · (1-0.708) · (1-0.0345) · (0.3) = 7,500 TWc Solar fuels: 89,000 TWc · (1-0.708) · (1-0.0345) · (0.1) = 2,500 TWc Solar thermal: 89,000 TWc · (1-0.708) · (1-0.0345) · (0.225) = 5,600 TWc These are huge potentials, dwarfing by many orders of magnitude those of the other."
- baudehlo 12y agoExtend past a few decades and you're beyond the lifetime of the black box, sadly. It would be really frustrating to finally find the plane only to never actually find out what happened.