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by vimacs2 6y ago
That's a good point but humans would easily beat out the utility of any probe if we get to that capability. It's not just a question of mobility and manual dexterity. We do have very capable robotics. The even bigger factor here i
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Hopefully the Gateway Foundation manages to get it's feet off the ground with it's starport idea. They are probably the closest I've seen any company to take these ideas beyond the conceptual stage.
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Some of these concerns are valid (in particular the microbiome and the possibility and probability of unforeseen variables) but others are not. Even assuming that we can't use mirror arrays to use natural lighting within habitats like
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by vimacs2 6y ago
This is too much of an extrapolation even by the standards of envisioning things like Dyson Swarms. You are assuming that: * It is possible to export or even host consciousness onto a digital medium - we still have no evidence for this * Al
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by vimacs2 6y ago
I had switched to Brave a few months ago once I saw the writing on the wall (the writing being that Mozilla clearly want to "diversify" from their browser). Despite being unable to have certain extensions, I have not been missing
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by vimacs2 6y ago
What seems downright absurd to me is to dismiss the obvious fact that while a star might be incredibly inefficient relative to a working fusion reactor, the actual energy output of a star will far outstrip that which can be collectively pro
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by vimacs2 6y ago
>First, no it isn't What isn't? That China has enough nuclear capability to cripple the entirety of NATO or vice versa? I'd like to see you justify that tall claim. Your second "point" just sounds like fear monge
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by vimacs2 6y ago
It's easy to dismantle this argument by realising that you're making a fake comparison. Nobody (not even ISIS) is going to be stupid enough to give access to nukes to the kinds of people that they value little enough to send on su
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Now this is where I have to disagree. "Wrecked" is very much an indisputable description for what micro-gravity does. There are health problems that develop even with short stints of micro gravity (less than a month) including abn
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Another far larger reason why they travels so slowly is because of power constraints. It takes a lot of rocket fuel to deliver a significant payload to any interplanetary destination and both batteries and RTG's are prohibitively heavy
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by vimacs2 6y ago
I'm not a fan of Steam simply because it is a form of DRM (and I hate the way library sharing works) but this is such a bs comparison it's hard to take seriously. Steam is not remotely equivalent to the Apple Store in terms of ant
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by vimacs2 6y ago
. . . So how many American and European cities has China bombed and invaded so far? No war was ever won with your mentality which makes the completely incorrect assumption that this is somehow a fight for survival or between good (uncle Sam
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Sure but you're thinking current humanity and contrary to modern times, there were plenty of civilisations that did engage in long term infrastructure in the past. We're talking millions of years in the future and assuming "w
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Every region in the world that moved beyond the Mesolithic era have a "cuisine based on grains". It's an unfortunate side effect of civilisation.
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It's literally enough time to even lift heavier elements from the Sun to extend it's stable life cycle by several billion years. Another commenter suggested moving the planet and got down voted to oblivion but it's not at all
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by vimacs2 6y ago
I keep hearing this sentiment but it's simply not true. They are already using graphene in consumer battery tech and with the recent invention of the "flash graphene" manufacturing process, production is going to ramp up sign
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by vimacs2 6y ago
I can confirm this. I literally had zero natural aptitude for dreams and when prior to achieving my first consciously induced lucid dream, thought for a long time that I stopped having dreams (in reality I just was not recalling them).
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I've have an amusing anecdote regarding the closing the nose reality check - I once woke up and was feeling strange. Everything around me looked completely real and in full fidelity but I couldn't shake the feeling off so I attemp
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Why bother? They've all but taken over the forum and internet community space so now it's time to chase those margins so they can keep that fantasy of infinite growth alive in the hearts of their shareholders.
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Reddit is so user hostile, it's not even funny at this point. I've been using libreddit instead but of course, you can't comment through that.
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Cute thought but it's never going to happen. Hitler was a moron who kept prodding the Allies with invasions that were creeping ever closer West. At that point, the third Reich had become an existential threat to the Allies. They would
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by vimacs2 6y ago
While this is true, you could say the same for all the ostensible Christian majority countries that both refuse to acknowledge the Armenian genocide that was inflicted by the Turks and the current genocide in Yemen targeting both Shia Musli
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by vimacs2 6y ago
Not the OP but I think their point is that while you might not think a quarter of a century is that long of a period, relative to most products in tech, it is a stupendously long time for a product to be still in use. It would be like using