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by pharke 5y ago
Isn't this what IPFS is for?
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Those convoluted supply chains are a recent phenomena. Some international trade is necessary but large countries like the United States are capable of producing almost everything they require domestically. Trade is only preferable if you ca
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by pharke 5y ago
I believe that theory is no longer valid. It was supposedly fungus that feeds on woody plants that resulted in a drop in lignin rich coal but that doesn't seem to quite work out. Coal is formed when there's a lot of organic matter
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by pharke 5y ago
During star formation up to half of the matter can be rejected. During planetary formation a lot of fairly large bodies will be ejected, think moon size, along with a lot of smaller stuff too. Interstellar space probably has a lot more to o
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If you can traverse interstellar space you are pretty much required to "live off the land" as you go and especially so once you reach your destination. This means you possess the ability to produce all of the energy, food, materia
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by pharke 5y ago
Each of those civilizations you mentioned rose to the heights of their power by uniting multiple smaller tribes into one larger civilization.
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by pharke 5y ago
We carry them with us in our genes, that seems to indicate more than just war was going on.
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> why wouldn't another intelligent species do this if they possess the technology? I think the only question we can ask here is "Would we do this if we possessed the technology?". We only have ourselves as an example of in
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Wouldn't that be the most difficult and expensive way to simply monitor for life or technosignatures? Compare that to simply (relatively speaking) building massive space based optical and radio observatories that can observe every visi
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This is the L constant of the Drake equation. Probably the hardest to find a value for until we've actually discovered other intelligent life or remains of such. The confounding part of it is that we can only guess at things that may e
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by pharke 5y ago
When I used Facebook back in the day, I joined because people I already knew and talked to on a regular basis were on there. We mostly posted photos and organized events. I didn't use it to find people I used to know so I guess my expe
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by pharke 5y ago
No one will pay to hang out in an empty room just because other people are there. They pay to go to clubs and bars because they provide entertainment, food, drinks, and atmosphere to go along with the social experience. If you created a ric
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by pharke 5y ago
So why doesn't someone simple replace Facebook with an "internet phonebook" that allows you to easily lookup/publish links to personal blogs, email, forum accounts, IM, etc.? Finding people you know on Facebook is only o
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by pharke 5y ago
Yes, the startup time is amazing. You can build from source if you want to try it out without paying. I bought a license and I've been using it on and off for personal projects but it is still in development so don't expect everyt
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by pharke 5y ago
Yes increased demand drives increases in price if the supply is limited. Production has been constrained everywhere for the past year and a half so buyers have had to source material from further away than usual.
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by pharke 5y ago
I don't think the physics checks out on that one.
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by pharke 5y ago
Automation should have been the answer instead of offshoring to cheap labor.
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by pharke 5y ago
The cost of transportation scales with density of the object. If it takes up a lot of space like insulation or a house, which is by design full of empty space, then it costs a lot to move. To decrease transportation costs you'd have to
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by pharke 5y ago
If "at the moment" is the past year and a half then it's because lumber prices have tripled or quadrupled so of course it makes sense to buy far afield and ship if the price is lower.
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by pharke 5y ago
There's a lot more to tires than rubber: https://www.ustires.org/whats-tire-0 Synthetic fibers include Rayon, Nylon, Polyester, Acrylic, and Spandex among the more widely used ones https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by pharke 5y ago
I'm reminded of a short sci-fi story I read long ago about an anarchical society where everyone possessed a weapon capable of destroying entire swathes of country side in an instant. It was some form of unlimited energy device that was
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by pharke 5y ago
There could be good reasons we wouldn't see von Neumann probes. They could be extremely dangerous to deploy similar to the arguments that are currently being made against autonomous weapons systems. That might result in them having man
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by pharke 5y ago
I wonder if there's a good business in the mix of these ideas. If a lot of manufacturers actually are using over powered chips because they are a) more available and b) easier to program with newer tooling then one might be able to fin
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by pharke 5y ago
Spray it with truck bed liner, job done.
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If this impacts the psychology of people saving money, it's just as likely to prompt them to save more. It's not like we're saving our money just for the sake of having a big number on our accounts. We usually have specific g
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by pharke 5y ago
It's been well known for a very long time that for some the education you receive at Yale or Harvard is more about how to be a member of that class, to learn the manners, speech, and dress, that will win you the job at companies playin
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Fitness Focused HTC Vive Air Leaked(theverge.com)
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by pharke 5y ago
Wikipedia[1] cites a 2010 study that gives a boiloff rate of 0.1% per day for hydrolox. Not sure if it would be less for pure LOX. Methane would remain stable so I wonder if there's a way you could balance the fuel load so that you can
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by pharke 5y ago
That just confirms that they can launch and fuel the starship lander on their own schedule.
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Why do you think they would need to do those launches in quick succession? If the lunar lander starship is parked in orbit without a crew it can be refuelled over any convenient period of time. Once it's fuelled just send up the crew i

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