Well, whether sporting the bold face of a bearded man, or the bald face of a shaver, I'm sure we can all agree that the people you can't trust are the ones with faces.
If it's successful, zynga will clone it, and dump money into it until your version is forgotten. If you're not successful, you're not successful. Either way, you lose your investment in the electronic version.
It's the lack of daily violence that has allowed interpersonal interaction to get so out of control. No one is afraid to screw over their neighbor in any legal way because if you hit them for it you'll be the one to get in trouble with the law. Either we can build a byzantine legal code, or we can acknowledge the need to be able to push back against jerks.
Voting with your dollars doesn't communicate WHY you made the decision not to buy, just that you made the decision. Burning their houses down and explaining why you did it on the news and in court makes that clear.
That seems like plenty of places to go, and of course, from those places, we can jump off to further places. And a lot of thought has gone into faster ships, I don't think anyone really believes there aren't solutions possible, if the energy requirements were manageable.
But it would have a relationship with you. With only a few light years gap, exchanges of science and art would be slow but meaningful. And spreading your genes is a powerful internal motivation: just look at the number of people willing to have children, even though in modern society each child is a net cost.
The problems are easily solved. It is only the implementation which is expensive. Would you say that the problems involved in building a car with a back-up video camera are intractable because such vehicles are pricey?
Traveling at 100x voyager 1 will be relatively easy. It had almost no thrust (launched at low speed from earth, then picked up speed by using gravitational assists at planets.
An extended thrust vehicle would be dramatically faster.
Or put another way: Voyager 1 has reached an amazing 1/17572 the speed of light. We can do better.
What did he mean by it? Was he imagining travel to another star? Or just off the planet. Because one of those was accomplished.
If he meant to another star... he was far too optimistic. There were many, many unsolved problems with accomplishing that goal in his day. Those same problems are solved problems now.
No, it's quite tractable, which means that the problems are understood, and have known solutions. There's nothing about it that can't be done. It's expensive right now, but it will get cheaper. It will get a LOT cheaper if someone builds a space elevator. Cheap enough with a space elevator to be NASA budget possible.
Exceeding lightspeed is in no way required for interstellar travel. The problems of interstellar travel are, in fact, quite tractable. We (in the sense of you and me, specifically) will indeed never get off this rock. But our grandchildren might.
The burj khalifa (tallest manmade structure) is less than a KM high. It took 5 years to build the exostructure. In some ways, the space elevator will be simpler, in some ways more complex, but assuming they can build it ten times as fast, they only needed to start a few years ago!
I claim an outage can't be that big a deal: even locally installed software can have outages, and every potential client must be prepared to deal with them. An outage on S2 is less likely than a power outage at the client site. Sure, that risk is additive, but it's also meaningless noise compared to the larger risk. Is that tiny additive outage risk going to harm sales? Unlikely at that price point.
Is lack of piracy going to harm sales? That's more likely.
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Meth has fueled an awful lot of violent crime.
Well, whether sporting the bold face of a bearded man, or the bald face of a shaver, I'm sure we can all agree that the people you can't trust are the ones with faces.
If it's successful, zynga will clone it, and dump money into it until your version is forgotten. If you're not successful, you're not successful. Either way, you lose your investment in the electronic version.
I'm preaching violence as a pattern. I don't care enough about this issue in particular.
It's the lack of daily violence that has allowed interpersonal interaction to get so out of control. No one is afraid to screw over their neighbor in any legal way because if you hit them for it you'll be the one to get in trouble with the law. Either we can build a byzantine legal code, or we can acknowledge the need to be able to push back against jerks.
Well then they're just dilettantes.
Voting with your dollars doesn't communicate WHY you made the decision not to buy, just that you made the decision. Burning their houses down and explaining why you did it on the news and in court makes that clear.
A second jumping off is indeed very likely to be far into the future, as the first set of worlds we reach won't be crowded for a long time.
If we could solve the energy problem, though, there are definitely a lot of ideas already for how to beat the dangers of 0.5+C ships.
Personally, I doubt there is any way to beat C. Otherwise, we'd have alien visitors.
This post is under organized mod attack. Go get 'em metamods.
That seems like plenty of places to go, and of course, from those places, we can jump off to further places.
And a lot of thought has gone into faster ships, I don't think anyone really believes there aren't solutions possible, if the energy requirements were manageable.
Hiring a private army is the traditional solution, yes.
But it would have a relationship with you. With only a few light years gap, exchanges of science and art would be slow but meaningful. And spreading your genes is a powerful internal motivation: just look at the number of people willing to have children, even though in modern society each child is a net cost.
Not cheap. But not that expensive. Certainly profitable.
Well, I'm afraid we disagree on our interpretations on the definition of tractable.
The problems are easily solved. It is only the implementation which is expensive.
Would you say that the problems involved in building a car with a back-up video camera are intractable because such vehicles are pricey?
Traveling at 100x voyager 1 will be relatively easy. It had almost no thrust (launched at low speed from earth, then picked up speed by using gravitational assists at planets.
An extended thrust vehicle would be dramatically faster.
Or put another way:
Voyager 1 has reached an amazing 1/17572 the speed of light. We can do better.
What did he mean by it? Was he imagining travel to another star? Or just off the planet. Because one of those was accomplished.
If he meant to another star ... he was far too optimistic. There were many, many unsolved problems with accomplishing that goal in his day. Those same problems are solved problems now.
No, it's quite tractable, which means that the problems are understood, and have known solutions. There's nothing about it that can't be done. It's expensive right now, but it will get cheaper. It will get a LOT cheaper if someone builds a space elevator. Cheap enough with a space elevator to be NASA budget possible.
Why would we want a monoculture? Just invites a failure mode to tear down the whole thing.
With the massive economic meltdown, prices on Greek slave girls have never been lower.
Exceeding lightspeed is in no way required for interstellar travel. The problems of interstellar travel are, in fact, quite tractable.
We (in the sense of you and me, specifically) will indeed never get off this rock. But our grandchildren might.
I hate to break it to you, but 50-12 is frequently 38, not 28.
Elementary!
(We'll just use our well proven asteroid manufacturing plants. After we park an asteroid in orbit the way we always do. By 2050.)
The burj khalifa (tallest manmade structure) is less than a KM high. It took 5 years to build the exostructure. In some ways, the space elevator will be simpler, in some ways more complex, but assuming they can build it ten times as fast, they only needed to start a few years ago!
I claim an outage can't be that big a deal: even locally installed software can have outages, and every potential client must be prepared to deal with them. An outage on S2 is less likely than a power outage at the client site. Sure, that risk is additive, but it's also meaningless noise compared to the larger risk. Is that tiny additive outage risk going to harm sales? Unlikely at that price point.
Is lack of piracy going to harm sales? That's more likely.