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by chr1 1y ago
Historically most people used to spend for children and grandchildren significantly more that on themselves. The current situation when people go to other countries and then say we do not have money for more than one child is abnormal, and
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by chr1 1y ago
Well, US spends 1.5 trillion on social security and only 20 billion on NASA, so "present" is kind of overrepresented. Redirecting that little bit so that a few more people can live without working, or can get expensive treatment
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by chr1 1y ago
If you look closer you'll see that this rockets are key to billions of people living on other planets, to cheaper internet, to better telescopes, to satellites controlling weather. Ultimately this is an important step towards a future
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by chr1 1y ago
The money transferred from tax payers to people without money is in effect a price for not breaking the law. If AI makes it much easier to produce goods, it reduces price of money, making it easier to pay some money to everyone in exchange
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by chr1 1y ago
Fuel rods in nuclear reactor last 3-7 years giving high level of reliability in case of a blockade, while LNG storage is enough only for a few months in the best case.
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by chr1 1y ago
Perovskite is not durable though, and that's the main reason it is still not used in solar cells.
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by chr1 1y ago
Kind of, but i mean if it was a smaller and more numerous species, it could have larger impact.
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by chr1 1y ago
Why is it impossible? it can be as simple as a bottom feeder species that goes to the surface to poop, basically like whales, or have cells in their gut that produce fiber making their poop float to surface, or a combination of seaweed that
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by chr1 1y ago
How far is our technology from being able to develop species of fish, that would bring up dirt from ocean floor, doing fertilization by themselves?
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by chr1 1y ago
In most cases instead of CT scan one could do the same diagnosis with MRI scan, which is only a bit more expensive.
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by chr1 1y ago
There is a rather interesting version of 1v1 tetris where your opponents empty space is your filled space https://tetrio.io/
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by chr1 2y ago
When plane is crashing, one wouldn't suggest the pilot to jump off to make the plane lighter. Same here, if life has any chance at all to survive long term, that chance is through humans. Sadly we are not all powerful and some species
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by chr1 2y ago
Conservation of what? Exact state of the ecosystem today? That goes until the next comet hits the Earth. And eventually all the life dies out when Earth core gets colder and volcanism ends. But with humans there is a chance to save and spre
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by chr1 2y ago
> But the study raises lots of questions: is it possible to boost these herbivores’ populations across the whole northern latitudes? If so, why do we need mammoths at all—why not just use species that already exist, which would surely be
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by chr1 2y ago
AI is good at solving captchas. But even if everyone added a captcha search engines will continue indexing. Because it is easy to add authentication for search engines to escape captcha, Google will just need to publish a public key.
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by chr1 2y ago
Carbon sequestration is merely a side effect, the main goal is to have a wavebreaker and a park and a place to grow fruits, for a floating city. To bring nutrient rich water up and to generate energy in the process temperature difference be
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by chr1 2y ago
E.g. https://www.eodashboard.org/story?id=primary-productivity&pa... For water to team with life, you need materials for building cells in the same place where the light is, and in most cases there is not enough iron on
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by chr1 2y ago
A few years ago an oil selling dictator, used his oil money to attack and occupy my friends country, killed my friend, and forced all the population to flee without ability to take anything with them. So if you think that i like the situati
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by chr1 2y ago
Plants don't live in open space either, and yet the submitted page wants to research possibilities. Using some genes from mangroves it should be possible to develop a plant that would grow in open sea.
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by chr1 2y ago
Nitrogen is easy, it can be captured from air, iron is the main thing missing in surface water that must be brought up by upwelling. But having real trees above the water is much more useful than simple carbon capture, they would serve as
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by chr1 2y ago
Somewhat similar and probably easier to achieve would be trees floating in open ocean, and some kind of plant capable to bring nutrients up from the large depth. Currently most of the ocean is a lifeless desert, with most of life concentrat
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by chr1 2y ago
People who bring up this theory, bring the great depression as evidence, forgetting that the problem there was caused by the law forbidding to reduce salaries, which made prices going down equivalent to minimal wage going up, which of cours
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by chr1 2y ago
Prime numbers and elliptic curves are much more connected than one might expect. Each elliptic curve generates a function similar to zeta function, and there is a version of a Riemann hypothesis for elliptic curves https://m.yo
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by chr1 2y ago
Another possible solution to the situation you describe is when grandparents are taking care of children and young people work as much as they can. There is a theory that people evolved to live past reproductive years, because it allowed t
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by chr1 2y ago
Newtonian mechanics also was a well established theory with multiple confirmations, but that did not mean the predictions it made were exact. Shor's algorithm working for large numbers would rule out some of interpretations of quantum
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by chr1 2y ago
The main benefit of building quantum computer is verification of correctness of quantum mechanics. There is a good reason to hope that quantum computers won't work allowing us to create better theory.
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by chr1 2y ago
There are thornless varieties of blackberries, but they taste awful compared to the real thing. Hopefully this will allow to develop new thornless varieties that will duffer only in presence of thorns and not taste.
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by chr1 2y ago
1. I don't want my children to die. And i don't want all the life on earth to be eliminated by a random asteroid. 2. Imagine two planets, people on one of them believe that expanding is the moral imperative, and the other want sta
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by chr1 2y ago
Health is only temporary, and everyone in your family is going to die, until someone makes a trillion dollar startup to cure aging. So it is fundamentally wrong to put health, family, and work as things opposing each other, ultimately they
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by chr1 2y ago
If such thin perovskites ever become cheap and stable enough, they will allow creating autonomous, hydrogen filled, cargo transporter dirigibles, which could be faster and cheaper replacement for trucks.

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