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by areoform 4y ago
> That voter is much more connected to reality than the typical academic, politician or professional though. Because they actually go out and do things in the real world. I might be off-base here, but I am unsure if you have thought thro
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by areoform 4y ago
Our survival is not the point. It is an act of hope and the manifestation of our goodwill to the rest of the universe. There is nothing more valuable that we can offer to the Universe than our culture, history, knowledge, and the Earth&#x
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by areoform 4y ago
Oops! I did a rough calc in my head but forgot to add in the two zeros. But it's still fairly "cheap." 0.14 Ubers (14%), or 0.002 Pentagon Monetary Black Holes (0.2% of the F-35 program)
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by areoform 4y ago
This size will have microscopic features! There is probably a balance between ease of scanning/technological sophistication required to see the pages, cost of etching, and the number of plates overall. The Long Now Foundation has exten
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by areoform 4y ago
Thank you so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - r
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by areoform 4y ago
Hey there, would you be open to discussing how you became such an amazing maker? I work with an org that funds and supports a really large community of young makers (mostly young people in their teens, but we also have folks in their mid-tw
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by areoform 4y ago
I don't know how to feel about this. The interlocutor is not neutral. He is - to put it politely - an enabler of, or an active participant in, some of the most distasteful acts a person can commit short of physical violence. I try to a
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by areoform 4y ago
Not at all! I've deeply enjoyed engaging with you. It's why I write. And will do :)
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by areoform 4y ago
We really need to continue this conversation over email. The egg of the phoenix piece is spectacular. One of the things I really like about the work that the Long Now Foundation has done and does is that they've defined their threat mo
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by areoform 4y ago
Thanks for engaging with the piece so deeply! Really appreciate it. Just as legacy tech isn’t automatically better than today’s technology, today’s technology isn’t always better than legacy tech. The agency has gone back to the Apollo well
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by areoform 4y ago
To be honest, I thought long and hard about bringing up what happened at Alexandria, but I thought against it. I wanted the piece to be more solution focused. The act of preservation in the now, making copies etc. is kind of like a prophyla
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by areoform 4y ago
Author here, based on my reading of your comment, I think we're talking at cross purposes. Your comment seems to be about how these technologies aren't useful for us in the present. AFAICT, it doesn't dispute that the knowled
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by areoform 4y ago
Much <3 to a fellow cultist <3 There are dozens of us!
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by areoform 4y ago
Honestly, unsure! From my (imperfect) memory, the F-1 engine's thermal protection system usually isn't mentioned. If it helps, other parts of the rocket were coated in asbestos too, btw. The Reaction Control System had asbestos,
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by areoform 4y ago
It's tongue in cheek. I write for myself and to reach out to/engage in dialog with interesting people. And to just add to the general sphere of human knowledge. I wrote this because I couldn't find anyone else addressing it.
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by areoform 4y ago
Author here, while I agree with some of your points, phasing out technologies is less of a problem as much as forgetting them. For example, we have far better insulators than asbestos now that can serve as thermal protection systems if we e
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by areoform 4y ago
Author here, the point of the piece isn't the asbestos. It's that we literally (in the original sense of the word) forgot the asbestos; asbestos was used as a part of the first stage F-1 engine's thermal protection system for
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Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies(1517.substack.com)
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A Soviet circus clown tried to prove that dogs can be psychic(atlasobscura.com)
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Who in the world is Albertina Geller?(businessinsider.com)
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Ask a Mortician: Did We Violate Community Guidelines? [video](youtube.com)
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Apollo astronaut Jim McDivitt has died(twitter.com)
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by areoform 4y ago
When I was growing up, I was told that women were by and large too dumb to do any real science by teenage boys and girls. I found great solace in Joan Feynman's story, > “Women can’t do science, because their brains aren’t made fo
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by areoform 4y ago
They probably watched it just for the layout of the B-52 which was classified at the time. IIRC, Kubrick was worried about being investigated by the FBI! From the wiki that quotes a DVD special, > Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in
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by areoform 4y ago
Dr. Martin Osborne’s, “An Introduction to Game Theory" You can read the first few chapters here, https://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/igt/ And the full solutions manual is here, https://www.ec
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by areoform 4y ago
I wrote an article about nuclear armageddon under the guise of writing about game theory, and the truth is that it's extremely unlikely something will happen. Taking the liberty to quote myself, > However, the implications of MAD ar
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Carl Sagan's first (?) published article in HS, “Space, Time, and the Poet” 1950(twitter.com)
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Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood(sciencedirect.com)
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by areoform 4y ago
That was the Wehrmacht i.e. the Armed Forces. The SS was the paramilitary organization that carried out the holocaust. They were committed Nazis and acted as bodyguards, the secret police, death camp operators, and slave labor exploiters. R
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by areoform 4y ago
Great catch! Fixed. The article says that she copped to the fine and is now cooperating with their investigation?

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