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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I think you’re talking about the gofast video which is not the tictac or “flir” video from 2004. Gofast and gimbal were from 2014 and 2015.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I look forward to watching anti-natalists and nihilists remove themselves from the gene pool. We don’t need your death cult bullshit.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
The leaked info is that there is no evidence for or against it being aliens and that it is not a domestic asset. I don’t think foreign assets have been completely ruled out but we’d better hope that’s not the explanation.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Well that’s two. Some people think the rotation in the gimbal video might be caused by image stabilization but that doesn’t explain the object itself or the commentary about there being a fleet of them. The cockpit photos are also unexplain
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
YouTube is the most accessible place for content like this. They may be running the site into the ground lately but the initial implementation of a site that allows easy uploading, sharing and discovery of video content still has a lot of m
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
SAG is not comparable to a labor union.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Nv Neurons are easy to breadboard if you buy the specified chip, that’sa good starting point for experimenting with this design since you can hook up some LEDs to see the alternating activation. Hooking up motors and sensors will be more co
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I don’t think the argument in this thread is to shut it down. It’s that more manufacturing should be done domestically. Offshoring manufacturing allowed us to revive those sweatshops after unions and regulations had done away with them and
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Too small, maybe a generation ship on approach?
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Maybe starship will be ready with orbital refueling in time to make a faster trip. Imagine being able to do a sample return mission from such an object.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
The government should also invest its capital in the projects that it believes will benefit the country. The people should have a say in the matter, they’re technically the investors after all.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
My optimistic take is that advanced civilizations capable of travelling the galaxy don’t spend their time hanging around planets and stars for the same reason we no longer hang around caves and fire started by lightning. They’ve mastered fu
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I imagine an interstellar civilization would have this to say about planets: “A nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there”
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Well they don’t have absolutely nothing. We know how much it costs to get mass into orbit, we know the launch cadence we’re capable of, we know how long it takes to build huge vessels like nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers, w
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I’m taking issue with the lifetime of the civilization, not the rate at which they send out colony ships.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Yes, thank you, that’s essentially what I’m arguing against. There’s no reason galactic civilizations should continually progress especially when each settled system is effectively cut off from its parent by light years of distance.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Yes my point is that each system colonized becomes its own independent case subject to destroying itself or regressing or becoming antagonistic towards its parent civilization. Think back pressure or resistance. The question I’m asking is a
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Change the “upload filter” to “total upload filter” smaller chance but still relevant. Also it was a silly sci-fi example, I’m sure sufficiently advanced societies can think up better forms of planetary dead ends.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Remember that when the first bus gets blown up by one of these.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Flying land mines can be equally indiscriminate. Especially if you set the targeting to an ethnic group. These are explosives so they won’t always kill their target, they’ll do a lot of maiming and anyone standing near the target will be on
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
More likely it will cause a greater loss of life while invalidating previous military tactics. These weapons are more similar to land mines than guided missiles. They’ll be used primarily against troops and armour but also stationary target
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
They could also target specific systems on the tank. The main gun, the engine, the tracks. They’re essentially anti tank hand grenades that don’t require someone to get close to the tank.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I’m not a fan of galactic settlement simulations mostly because I think they simulate the wrong thing which is rate of diffusion. This treats the civilization as a static thing that simply spreads out at the edges. Compared to the history o
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Agreed, your parents mistakes are often a very strong source of motivation to act differently.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
Productivity of geniuses seems to exceed the ability of idiots to screw things up so far.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
My counter argument is that humans are more wasteful when faced with abundance. Look at what we did when we discovered two continents worth of land. When perceived costs are low, waste is high.
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
It would solve the declining birth rate for one. With a 300 year lifespan you can afford to put your career on hold for 20 years while you have children. My belief is that an extended lifespan would force people to consider their impact on
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
So you’re just going to contradict your reasoning about “of course nothing drastic will happen” by stating “if I were president there’d be drastic changes” in the same thread? This is exactly the superficiality I was arguing against. The on
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
I wish we had a more informed perspective on oil. Yes it’s very important that we move individual and public transportation to electric now that we have the batteries to do so. Yes we need to switch energy production to renewables and zero
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by throwaway316943 5y ago
If we could get every billionaire to reinvest their money in world changing technology like Elon we’d live in a much better world. Honestly this is capitalism at its best, how do we do more like this?

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