A superconducting wire capable of charging a car battery does not have to be very thick. Sure, if you want to have cross country transfer cables carrying millions of killowatts hours, that cable will be thicker.
That's the whole question behind the fermi paradox. If pWe_Are_First should be small, yet we seem to be first, are we wrong about the probability, about the being first, or are we incomprehensibly lucky?
Manufacturing glasses and medical treatments for all those poor saps looking at black screens is going to more than eat any short term monitor energy savings.
Sure, statistical chance is one possible explanation. Someone does have to be first. But to say that the chance is small is underselling it... it is remotely tiny. The 'first' civilization should have been multiple billions of years ago. That we'd get this 'lucky' is so close to impossible that we have the whole 'Fermi paradox' name for it.
I think you're underestimating the size of the galaxy. At 100x the speed of light it takes only one advanced race to fill it up quite rapidly. And then the same goes for each other galaxy, plus you'd be seeing quite a few species make it to additional galaxies by now. A civilization doesn't have to last that long, just the technological capability of the species. A species only 10 times as mature as ours would have had plenty of time to reach additional galaxies by now, and there's plenty of room for species as much as 1000 times as mature.
It's certainly a possibility. The cost of killing most of the people on one planet is coming down a lot faster than the rate at which we are adding new planets to live on. We'll soon reach the point where a well funded terrorist could bring down an asteroid and wipe out western civilization (and most of the rest, but I think evidence suggests they'd consider that a victory scenario).
I'm sure there are other hazards ahead of us as well. But if there were some technology thing that would accidentally kill us all (rather than intentionally) it seems likely we'd be able to see that happening in the universe.
It's not going to be FTL. FTL would leave the universe pretty crowded by now. Maybe it will allow exit from the conventional universe, that would explain Fermi's paradox.
It could be the killer app, but the real question would revolve around whether or not Facebook could build a superior competitor and win the market for less than a billion dollars. I suspect they could have.
Yes, all those businesses are choosing their languages in order to be uncompetitive with those that choose to implement their projects in C. And they are being run out of the market by their swifter competitors!
Or in other words: contrary to your opinion, the facts are in, and those other languages are proving superior to C.
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A superconducting wire capable of charging a car battery does not have to be very thick. Sure, if you want to have cross country transfer cables carrying millions of killowatts hours, that cable will be thicker.
The wire only has to be thick if it isn't superconducting.
That's the whole question behind the fermi paradox. If pWe_Are_First should be small, yet we seem to be first, are we wrong about the probability, about the being first, or are we incomprehensibly lucky?
I mean no one in the statistical sense. Obviously there are going to be a handful of freakish exceptions in a population of 7 billion.
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I rest my case.
Who?
How about 'small'.
Curse of the double negative strikes again.
Manufacturing glasses and medical treatments for all those poor saps looking at black screens is going to more than eat any short term monitor energy savings.
No one under 30 cares. It's been xgames where the real athletes compete for more than a decade at this point.
Sure, statistical chance is one possible explanation. Someone does have to be first. But to say that the chance is small is underselling it ... it is remotely tiny. The 'first' civilization should have been multiple billions of years ago. That we'd get this 'lucky' is so close to impossible that we have the whole 'Fermi paradox' name for it.
I think you're underestimating the size of the galaxy. At 100x the speed of light it takes only one advanced race to fill it up quite rapidly. And then the same goes for each other galaxy, plus you'd be seeing quite a few species make it to additional galaxies by now. A civilization doesn't have to last that long, just the technological capability of the species. A species only 10 times as mature as ours would have had plenty of time to reach additional galaxies by now, and there's plenty of room for species as much as 1000 times as mature.
It's certainly a possibility. The cost of killing most of the people on one planet is coming down a lot faster than the rate at which we are adding new planets to live on. We'll soon reach the point where a well funded terrorist could bring down an asteroid and wipe out western civilization (and most of the rest, but I think evidence suggests they'd consider that a victory scenario).
I'm sure there are other hazards ahead of us as well. But if there were some technology thing that would accidentally kill us all (rather than intentionally) it seems likely we'd be able to see that happening in the universe.
Why wouldn't you want the truth?
It's not going to be FTL. FTL would leave the universe pretty crowded by now. Maybe it will allow exit from the conventional universe, that would explain Fermi's paradox.
Why, he has majority control. He can shaft the investors all he wants and there is nothing they can do.
Probably not at this point. They've shut down trading on sharespost, so it's much harder to make a deal now. Should have gotten in last month!
It could be the killer app, but the real question would revolve around whether or not Facebook could build a superior competitor and win the market for less than a billion dollars. I suspect they could have.
My definition for success is success. C projects are getting beaten by other languages in the marketplace .
Yes, all those businesses are choosing their languages in order to be uncompetitive with those that choose to implement their projects in C. And they are being run out of the market by their swifter competitors!
Or in other words: contrary to your opinion, the facts are in, and those other languages are proving superior to C.
Most people don't get prenups, so i'd guess no unless there is some reason to think otherwise.
The good news is, the aliens won't be conquering us.
We have hundreds of implementations of basically every idea. It's the good ones that stand out.
I'm pretty sure the christians have racked up a much higher body count over each of the last few years.