I don't know why, but the second thing I think of when I hear Bloom County is Donald Trump (and visa versa (I as a huge fan). He and Ivanka were made fun of quite often in Bloom County. The first is, of course, Opus.
were reported on in Science News, my boss and I were talking about the implications and our first thought (his actually) was drag racers [wikipedia.org]. The power mass densities (different than energy density) was insane. You could build a car in literally tens of kg that could accelerate at 10g's!
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in
Arizona bay. --Aenima
I've lived without electricity, running water and bridges for a long time (a few years). Not really fun, but not a death sentence. Plus there are lakes every other street exit.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/...
77% of US households own a washing machine. I've never met an American who does laundry in the bathtub as in many other countries I've visited around the world. I'd guess that the remaining 23% use a laundromat. This little piece of automation has saved hundreds of billions of hours of labor that were put to more useful pursuits (like watching tv). Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
Technology has peaked. Nerd now means you dress up as batman (like Halloween), go see a movie and complain about some social problem that didn't exist 15 minutes ago.
How do we divide scarce resources when no money is involved?
Obviously there will need to be some overseers. And because it is a difficult and thankless job, those overseers will have to have more resources. It's only fair. And because there are so many people with so many overseers, there will have to be overseers whose job it is to watch over them.
With a population to overseer ratio of 100:1, you'll only need about 5 layers to get to the top overseer for the whole world (there should be only one because of efficiency reasons). This top overseer will be so miserable that he or she will have to be compensated (why not, everyone else is living a life of leisure?) to a great level unimaginable today for such is their responsibility. They should be guaranteed that their offspring be able to share in this compensation also as gratitude for their loving sacrifice and devotion for material wealth alone would be insufficient to encourage them to do that job. And though be it a sacrifice of a whole genetic lineage, their offspring too shall remain as the top overseer. Obvious they have the genes for it and predisposed anyway and no one else wants to have to decide who gets what because they are all watching the latest episode of STOMB.
That's why I don't worry about this stuff too much. By the time anyone builds it, the patent will have long expired. In the worse case scenario, we get fusion powered aircraft (implying, the problems associated with fusion have been largely solved) and we'll have to fly in Boeing aircraft (oh no).
NASA contracts everything. They don't build anything. I've never understood why people don't understand this. They don't even perform the launches. They're like someone who decides to act as a prime contractor and 'build their own house'. Hire a grader, hire an architect, framers, hire plumbers, electricians, roofers, etc.
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I don't know why, but the second thing I think of when I hear Bloom County is Donald Trump (and visa versa (I as a huge fan). He and Ivanka were made fun of quite often in Bloom County. The first is, of course, Opus.
Unless you went to some top or bottom (Phoenix college) tier school, you won't have massive debt.
were reported on in Science News, my boss and I were talking about the implications and our first thought (his actually) was drag racers [wikipedia.org]. The power mass densities (different than energy density) was insane. You could build a car in literally tens of kg that could accelerate at 10g's!
The best way to argue against something is to argue for it poorly.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
Freaks
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
--Aenima
I've lived without electricity, running water and bridges for a long time (a few years). Not really fun, but not a death sentence. Plus there are lakes every other street exit.
This idea was very popular during the last election.
imagine that
It's easy if you try
duh
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/...
77% of US households own a washing machine. I've never met an American who does laundry in the bathtub as in many other countries I've visited around the world. I'd guess that the remaining 23% use a laundromat. This little piece of automation has saved hundreds of billions of hours of labor that were put to more useful pursuits (like watching tv).
Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
Fertility rate in the US is 1.87, below replacement rate.
http://www.indexmundi.com/fact...
It's the low-information voters.
And yet, never before, in the history of all history, has information been more readily available to voters.
But there has to be conspiracy and coverup involved.
Technology has peaked. Nerd now means you dress up as batman (like Halloween), go see a movie and complain about some social problem that didn't exist 15 minutes ago.
https://www.defencetalk.com/fo...
This was a thing on the old slashdot when the site was about geeky things. And don't forget
http://www.progressiveengineer...
You can buy the guidance system on ebay.
I wouldn't own a car. My college town had roughly the same population and I didn't need a bike.
the competition for mates. How is that going to be mitigated
Sex robots and artificial wombs.
to the problems Greece is having right now.
How do we divide scarce resources when no money is involved?
Obviously there will need to be some overseers. And because it is a difficult and thankless job, those overseers will have to have more resources. It's only fair. And because there are so many people with so many overseers, there will have to be overseers whose job it is to watch over them.
With a population to overseer ratio of 100:1, you'll only need about 5 layers to get to the top overseer for the whole world (there should be only one because of efficiency reasons). This top overseer will be so miserable that he or she will have to be compensated (why not, everyone else is living a life of leisure?) to a great level unimaginable today for such is their responsibility. They should be guaranteed that their offspring be able to share in this compensation also as gratitude for their loving sacrifice and devotion for material wealth alone would be insufficient to encourage them to do that job. And though be it a sacrifice of a whole genetic lineage, their offspring too shall remain as the top overseer. Obvious they have the genes for it and predisposed anyway and no one else wants to have to decide who gets what because they are all watching the latest episode of STOMB.
They flew a cheese first.
That's why I don't worry about this stuff too much. By the time anyone builds it, the patent will have long expired. In the worse case scenario, we get fusion powered aircraft (implying, the problems associated with fusion have been largely solved) and we'll have to fly in Boeing aircraft (oh no).
Now we won't have laser ignited fusion powered aircraft for another 20 years.
NASA contracts everything. They don't build anything. I've never understood why people don't understand this. They don't even perform the launches. They're like someone who decides to act as a prime contractor and 'build their own house'. Hire a grader, hire an architect, framers, hire plumbers, electricians, roofers, etc.
Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees with you.