I think you'd find the vast majority of people have never driven 16 hours without stopping. Normal humans need to eat, drink and poop... not to mention stretch.
As for when the people will care -- it'll be after a big scandal involving the abuse of domestic spying powers. Reporting on the spying itself will never disturb most people. A report on say the IRS borrowing NSA spy data to repossess people's guns, on the other hand, will cause a frenzy.
5 seconds later, he'd be arrested for revealing classified information. Then the American people would vilify him as a traitor for letting the terrorists know how they're being watched, and he'd be put on trial for treason. In the end, it would make no difference. Nothing will until the majority of the people actually care and desire to not be spied on.
Off road vehicles will work on Mars before you even bother to make a dirt road -- the Apollo moon buggies fully demonstrated the practicality of that already.
I'd expect the odds of the NSA accidentally embedding the same strings in multiple exploits to be around 100%. They're humans, they're lazy, they copy stuff and they want readable code. Why wouldn't they?
I mean, are the only software developers who work normal business hours on normal workdays in the Eastern timezone all working for the NSA?
Very few regular businesses in the eastern USA hire hackers to attack others, so most hackers have much more varied time allocations reflecting that they do it after work / on weekends or are unemployed. The hours strongly suggest employees, so what other employer seems likely to you?
We used to have a successful, efficient ice harvesting industry with water ice here on Earth. As on Earth, nearby mountains may prove more fruitful than the poles as well. It's a lot easier than shipping all the materials you need to build solar panels from Earth to Mars in sufficient quantities to power a significant colony. Now, if you're just trying to keep a team of 5 scientists alive it's probably better to use solar panels.
That's exactly the point. They destroy tech and education and social artifacts because they know that the more desperate and hopeless and disconnected the people feel, the more of them will turn to extremism and the easier the rest will be to control.
You have to account for the fact that your theory's predictions have been disproved by evolution's better explanations again and again and again. Your god of the gaps is shown wrong every time a new gap is filled by science. Obviously there are always more gaps, but the fact that you were wrong the last thousand times is plenty strong evidence that you're wrong in plugging your god into the next gap, and is a strong motivation to abandon your concept of god as an active meddler.
You don't know when I'm sleeping or eating. As it happens I got up around midnight yesterday. You have to ASK to find out when is a good time for someone, no matter where they are. If we happen to be on different sides of the planet, you'll understand my answer quicker if I say "I'll be up at 10 UTC" than if I say "Call me at 2:30 AM my time... that's pacific time... oh wait daylight savings starts at 2 AM so there isn't a 2:30 AM tomorrow it actually skips straight from 2 AM to 3 AM. Uh nevermind, I'll call you."
If an exact clone of our civilization were in the very closest star system, SETI would not have been able to detect that either. Our radio signals aren't strong enough for us to detect beyond a light year, and are becoming even fainter as we get more efficient.
I don't think most people will accept the taxi-like solution. It may be more efficient, but it's counter to human psychology. Paying per minute/mile will make make people feel bad and struggle with the reality of the cost every time they consider a 100 mile trip to the mountains which would otherwise have been a carefree whim, and people have shown with phone plans that they'd rather have unlimited at a higher price than deal with worrying about their usage. And a monthly flat fee for car use probably wouldn't work at a competitive price because of a few people abusing it with near-constant travel (perhaps even using it for business travel). Plus, people like to feel ownership and will pay extra for that feeling. And people really don't want to wait 10 minutes for a car to arrive either, they don't plan well and want to be able to jump in the moment they remember that they're late to something.
The cost for the array of sensors is far from minimal at the moment. Maintenance on them will add up too, you have new complicated pricey parts. The majority of people are probably driving cars worth $5K or less. Cheap low maintenance human-driven vehicles will be the norm for the foreseeable future, outside of wealthy suburbs.
Cartels have no shortage of money and no hesitation about using it. They buy officials all over the place. I'm sure they pay well over the market rate for IT professionals.
Saving scientists from having to say "non-dwarf planets" every time they want to make it clear they're not talking about the hundreds of KBOs and are rather talking about the type of things commonly called planets in existing literature of centuries, is pretty good motivation.
Unlike companies, government has shown the ability to disparage things they profit from. The public health arm of the government couldn't care less where the tax dollars come from.
Even if the gamma ray burst were aimed straight at us, the exploding star would have to be within 50 light years to hurt our ozone layer (source: google).
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Drug users/dealers are considered guilty, so that doesn't bother most people.
Have you ever, in your entire life, run out of gas? If so, why?
I think you'd find the vast majority of people have never driven 16 hours without stopping. Normal humans need to eat, drink and poop... not to mention stretch.
As for when the people will care -- it'll be after a big scandal involving the abuse of domestic spying powers. Reporting on the spying itself will never disturb most people. A report on say the IRS borrowing NSA spy data to repossess people's guns, on the other hand, will cause a frenzy.
5 seconds later, he'd be arrested for revealing classified information. Then the American people would vilify him as a traitor for letting the terrorists know how they're being watched, and he'd be put on trial for treason. In the end, it would make no difference. Nothing will until the majority of the people actually care and desire to not be spied on.
Not just at home. I never take my wallet when I go for a walk, and would quickly turn off an app that tried to alert me whenever I did.
Has there been any study of the long term effects of 1/6th G? Moon people might be fine.
Off road vehicles will work on Mars before you even bother to make a dirt road -- the Apollo moon buggies fully demonstrated the practicality of that already.
If you can play the games you want to play, then mission accomplished. Who, other than shareholders and accountants, cares about marketshare?
I'd expect the odds of the NSA accidentally embedding the same strings in multiple exploits to be around 100%. They're humans, they're lazy, they copy stuff and they want readable code. Why wouldn't they?
I mean, are the only software developers who work normal business hours on normal workdays in the Eastern timezone all working for the NSA?
Very few regular businesses in the eastern USA hire hackers to attack others, so most hackers have much more varied time allocations reflecting that they do it after work / on weekends or are unemployed. The hours strongly suggest employees, so what other employer seems likely to you?
We used to have a successful, efficient ice harvesting industry with water ice here on Earth. As on Earth, nearby mountains may prove more fruitful than the poles as well. It's a lot easier than shipping all the materials you need to build solar panels from Earth to Mars in sufficient quantities to power a significant colony. Now, if you're just trying to keep a team of 5 scientists alive it's probably better to use solar panels.
Earth doesn't have the huge global dust storms that Mars gets. But at any rate, 4 billion years ago Mars had a much thicker atmosphere.
That's exactly the point. They destroy tech and education and social artifacts because they know that the more desperate and hopeless and disconnected the people feel, the more of them will turn to extremism and the easier the rest will be to control.
You have to account for the fact that your theory's predictions have been disproved by evolution's better explanations again and again and again. Your god of the gaps is shown wrong every time a new gap is filled by science. Obviously there are always more gaps, but the fact that you were wrong the last thousand times is plenty strong evidence that you're wrong in plugging your god into the next gap, and is a strong motivation to abandon your concept of god as an active meddler.
You don't know when I'm sleeping or eating. As it happens I got up around midnight yesterday. You have to ASK to find out when is a good time for someone, no matter where they are. If we happen to be on different sides of the planet, you'll understand my answer quicker if I say "I'll be up at 10 UTC" than if I say "Call me at 2:30 AM my time... that's pacific time... oh wait daylight savings starts at 2 AM so there isn't a 2:30 AM tomorrow it actually skips straight from 2 AM to 3 AM. Uh nevermind, I'll call you."
If an exact clone of our civilization were in the very closest star system, SETI would not have been able to detect that either. Our radio signals aren't strong enough for us to detect beyond a light year, and are becoming even fainter as we get more efficient.
I don't think most people will accept the taxi-like solution. It may be more efficient, but it's counter to human psychology. Paying per minute/mile will make make people feel bad and struggle with the reality of the cost every time they consider a 100 mile trip to the mountains which would otherwise have been a carefree whim, and people have shown with phone plans that they'd rather have unlimited at a higher price than deal with worrying about their usage. And a monthly flat fee for car use probably wouldn't work at a competitive price because of a few people abusing it with near-constant travel (perhaps even using it for business travel). Plus, people like to feel ownership and will pay extra for that feeling. And people really don't want to wait 10 minutes for a car to arrive either, they don't plan well and want to be able to jump in the moment they remember that they're late to something.
The cost for the array of sensors is far from minimal at the moment. Maintenance on them will add up too, you have new complicated pricey parts. The majority of people are probably driving cars worth $5K or less. Cheap low maintenance human-driven vehicles will be the norm for the foreseeable future, outside of wealthy suburbs.
Cartels have no shortage of money and no hesitation about using it. They buy officials all over the place. I'm sure they pay well over the market rate for IT professionals.
More having a pet lizard rather than a pet kitten.
What he means is that even though it's a prototype he's still going to charge passengers to ride it.
Saving scientists from having to say "non-dwarf planets" every time they want to make it clear they're not talking about the hundreds of KBOs and are rather talking about the type of things commonly called planets in existing literature of centuries, is pretty good motivation.
Unlike companies, government has shown the ability to disparage things they profit from. The public health arm of the government couldn't care less where the tax dollars come from.
Even if the gamma ray burst were aimed straight at us, the exploding star would have to be within 50 light years to hurt our ozone layer (source: google).