We only even have enough nukes to wipe out half the population because most people live in cities. There aren't anywhere near enough on the whole Earth combined to wipe people out (hell, long-term it would probably be a win for the planet and our species to pop them all off at once.)
Look at the shit the Aztec and Mayan did to their own people before plagues got them. The only difference is that as society progresses people are generally less shitty toward one another (not that it matters, everyone knows the exact same level of pleasure and pain: all they know - in turn people will bitch about non-issues until they're blue in the face: see modern political issues.)
It was designed by talentless hacks who got sick of being code monkeys to "manage" more competent developers who were younger then them because they "put in their time" and damnit, they've been shit on for being talentless hacks for so long they deserve to do some shitting of their own.
Everything is safe or unsafe in different proportions. There is nothing which won't poison you if you have too much of it, the act of extracting something is enough to make it "unnatural."
Further, we don't need a new branch of the military for that.
We do if we want to be prepared to defend our planet from foreign threats. The army does civil service when there's no foreign threat to fight or when there's a disaster. Asteroids are that for Space Force. If we never have aliens trying to invade and Musk's Martian slave labor camp doesn't start constructing mass drivers en mass then that may be all they ever do, and hopefully it will be. Better to be prepared than not, especially with billionaires going gung-ho to conquer space - I for one am not anticipating they will change course and stop being sociopathic control freaks who will stop at nothing for more power and control over others just because they build a massive asteroid mining business.
Are you arguing that ultra-pure materials can't be made in space? That'll be news to, well, everyone.
Using modern technology? En mass and engineered+machined in very precise ways? Yes, I am absolutely arguing that. We don't have anywhere near the tech to do that now.
If a lawsuit makes a company stop doing something bad to millions of people, isn't that a good thing?
If a company is doing bad things to millions of people they deserve to go bankrupt, not to get a slap on a wrist via class action settlements. Class action settlements are a lawyer taking the ability to sue away from millions of people who have to manually opt-out (without even knowing such a lawsuit has begun most of the time,) and then giving them little to nothing in return. If a company fucks over 100,000,000 people and has to pay out $100,000,000 but did several thousand in damage to each individual it's hardly fair. Lawyers and corporations tend to argue "well if we compensated everyone we'd be bankrupt" - the only correct response to that is "good, now add on jail time for everyone involved too."
I don't blame anyone for being xenophobic, tribalism is Human nature across the board. It doesn't mean it should be allowed to slow research. Everyone has had ancestors who ate shit and got fucked sideways, without exception, the only difference is how long ago it happened. We have a lot of evolutionary selection which took place to make us despise foreigners if not at least distrust them, it's not an excuse from anyone.
Take the glass into space, then melt it. In space, you can get the purity higher and the defect density lower, so creating the mirror on Earth is stupid and limiting. You can get the crude shape easily enough by any number of means.
I'm going to disregard this as a troll, as it would make me uncomfortable to know anyone who believes something so naively stupid is confident enough in themselves to speak.
That's just not true. If we catch them far enough in advance we can divert them with modern tech. The issue there is we need to be looking all over pretty constantly.
A telescope can only view so much at a time, and a ground-based telescope is a LOT easier to maintain than a space based one. Ideally, we should be building telescopes everywhere we can, if for no reason other than as an early warning system for asteroids. The other major reason we should be coating the Earth is telescopes is that modern data processing techniques allow us to combine images for higher resolution when taken from different locations to emulate a larger aperture - we could conceivably have a virtual Earth-sized aperture telescope capable of actually spotting Earth-sized planets in other systems AND determining atmospheric concentration therein if we had enough Earth-based telescopes. The next major breakthrough in space telescopes is the James Webb telescope - which really pushes the bounds of what we can successfully deploy in space at only a few meters in size, and the major gain there isn't the aperture but the wavelength (we don't have any good infrared telescopes right now, those simply don't work on Earth because of the atmospheric effects, but visible light and radio telescopes are much better to place on Earth.) Maintenance costs really can't be disregarded, at least until our society reaches a post-scarcity state.
Of course, your views assume that it's someone else who is affected. Soon as it's you, you get your friends to storm the nearest wildlife sanctuary in order to teach the Feds a lesson, like those Texans did.
So you're comparing a scientific endevour the whole species benefits from and a few people are pissed off about because they're racist as fuck and hate outsiders (but it's OK, they get a pass because they aren't white,) to a situation where hundreds of people worked land over generations and still actively use it but were being sold out by a corrupt politician who wanted to sell land to Chinese investors? Those two things are in no way shape or form related, and it really goes to show your bias that you even believe they could be.
Do you know where the Hawiians live or work? I don't and I've followed the story. I can be absolutely certain you know even less.
Lived there for years, actually. Native Hawaiians are easily the most racist and xenophobic demographic in the US, by a very wide margin.
The best place to build a telescope is in space. But you won't spend the money. Spoils your view, against your religion, etc.
Good luck getting a 30m telescope into space with modern technology.
You know, if it's an FU for the Hawaiians, it should be an FU for you too. Build in space a telescope of equal size. The government should take what it damn well pleases from you to build the telescope there. After all, you don't live or work there and it's the best place. Hey, your arguments. Not my problem.
The government isn't taking shit from them: they don't use it. It is literally the single best place on Earth to build a telescope, they don't get squatters rights on such a precious resource they don't even have any intention of using.
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Would be public knowledge in 3-5 years when quantum computers crack modern algorithms.
We only even have enough nukes to wipe out half the population because most people live in cities. There aren't anywhere near enough on the whole Earth combined to wipe people out (hell, long-term it would probably be a win for the planet and our species to pop them all off at once.)
Look at the shit the Aztec and Mayan did to their own people before plagues got them. The only difference is that as society progresses people are generally less shitty toward one another (not that it matters, everyone knows the exact same level of pleasure and pain: all they know - in turn people will bitch about non-issues until they're blue in the face: see modern political issues.)
It was designed by talentless hacks who got sick of being code monkeys to "manage" more competent developers who were younger then them because they "put in their time" and damnit, they've been shit on for being talentless hacks for so long they deserve to do some shitting of their own.
We all have assholes, some just prefer giving rather than receiving anal.
Everything is safe or unsafe in different proportions. There is nothing which won't poison you if you have too much of it, the act of extracting something is enough to make it "unnatural."
I miss the old Linus.
Natural chemicals aren't necessarily (or even usually) safer than synthetic.
Nah, this miracle chemical-free coating will give everyone a lethal dose of cancer long before they think to resist it.
So he's developed chemical that he sprays on shit and calls it chemical free? This is a true marvel of modern marketing.
A "scientific extrapolation" is a lot like a normal extrapolation, but you say 20 hail Darwins between each calculation.
it works 51% of the time.
Further, we don't need a new branch of the military for that.
We do if we want to be prepared to defend our planet from foreign threats. The army does civil service when there's no foreign threat to fight or when there's a disaster. Asteroids are that for Space Force. If we never have aliens trying to invade and Musk's Martian slave labor camp doesn't start constructing mass drivers en mass then that may be all they ever do, and hopefully it will be. Better to be prepared than not, especially with billionaires going gung-ho to conquer space - I for one am not anticipating they will change course and stop being sociopathic control freaks who will stop at nothing for more power and control over others just because they build a massive asteroid mining business.
XX isn't male by any definition.
Because asteroids can only hurt the wealthy, right?
Are you arguing that ultra-pure materials can't be made in space? That'll be news to, well, everyone.
Using modern technology? En mass and engineered+machined in very precise ways? Yes, I am absolutely arguing that. We don't have anywhere near the tech to do that now.
If a lawsuit makes a company stop doing something bad to millions of people, isn't that a good thing?
If a company is doing bad things to millions of people they deserve to go bankrupt, not to get a slap on a wrist via class action settlements. Class action settlements are a lawyer taking the ability to sue away from millions of people who have to manually opt-out (without even knowing such a lawsuit has begun most of the time,) and then giving them little to nothing in return. If a company fucks over 100,000,000 people and has to pay out $100,000,000 but did several thousand in damage to each individual it's hardly fair. Lawyers and corporations tend to argue "well if we compensated everyone we'd be bankrupt" - the only correct response to that is "good, now add on jail time for everyone involved too."
One competent troll is worth a thousand kind-hearted plebs.
I don't blame anyone for being xenophobic, tribalism is Human nature across the board. It doesn't mean it should be allowed to slow research. Everyone has had ancestors who ate shit and got fucked sideways, without exception, the only difference is how long ago it happened. We have a lot of evolutionary selection which took place to make us despise foreigners if not at least distrust them, it's not an excuse from anyone.
Sounds like a B movie!
That depends on the vote, but a B movie would go something like:
-superglue shoe on head
-pull down pants
-put sharpie in butt
-stalk nicholas cage
Very easy to get a 30 metre space telescope.
Take the glass into space, then melt it. In space, you can get the purity higher and the defect density lower, so creating the mirror on Earth is stupid and limiting. You can get the crude shape easily enough by any number of means.
I'm going to disregard this as a troll, as it would make me uncomfortable to know anyone who believes something so naively stupid is confident enough in themselves to speak.
That's just not true. If we catch them far enough in advance we can divert them with modern tech. The issue there is we need to be looking all over pretty constantly.
A telescope can only view so much at a time, and a ground-based telescope is a LOT easier to maintain than a space based one. Ideally, we should be building telescopes everywhere we can, if for no reason other than as an early warning system for asteroids. The other major reason we should be coating the Earth is telescopes is that modern data processing techniques allow us to combine images for higher resolution when taken from different locations to emulate a larger aperture - we could conceivably have a virtual Earth-sized aperture telescope capable of actually spotting Earth-sized planets in other systems AND determining atmospheric concentration therein if we had enough Earth-based telescopes. The next major breakthrough in space telescopes is the James Webb telescope - which really pushes the bounds of what we can successfully deploy in space at only a few meters in size, and the major gain there isn't the aperture but the wavelength (we don't have any good infrared telescopes right now, those simply don't work on Earth because of the atmospheric effects, but visible light and radio telescopes are much better to place on Earth.) Maintenance costs really can't be disregarded, at least until our society reaches a post-scarcity state.
Of course, your views assume that it's someone else who is affected. Soon as it's you, you get your friends to storm the nearest wildlife sanctuary in order to teach the Feds a lesson, like those Texans did.
So you're comparing a scientific endevour the whole species benefits from and a few people are pissed off about because they're racist as fuck and hate outsiders (but it's OK, they get a pass because they aren't white,) to a situation where hundreds of people worked land over generations and still actively use it but were being sold out by a corrupt politician who wanted to sell land to Chinese investors? Those two things are in no way shape or form related, and it really goes to show your bias that you even believe they could be.
Do you know where the Hawiians live or work? I don't and I've followed the story. I can be absolutely certain you know even less.
Lived there for years, actually. Native Hawaiians are easily the most racist and xenophobic demographic in the US, by a very wide margin.
The best place to build a telescope is in space. But you won't spend the money. Spoils your view, against your religion, etc.
Good luck getting a 30m telescope into space with modern technology.
You know, if it's an FU for the Hawaiians, it should be an FU for you too. Build in space a telescope of equal size. The government should take what it damn well pleases from you to build the telescope there. After all, you don't live or work there and it's the best place. Hey, your arguments. Not my problem.
The government isn't taking shit from them: they don't use it. It is literally the single best place on Earth to build a telescope, they don't get squatters rights on such a precious resource they don't even have any intention of using.