If you're generating electricity, it's much more efficient to use that to charge electric cars, and reduce the amount of CO2 that goes into the atmosphere, rather than using inefficient methods to get it out.
Also, hydrogen fuel is a dumb idea. There is no infrastructure, conversion/storage is inefficient and it makes metals brittle. It's much better to focus on electric battery cars.
We have a system like that. We pay a reduced price for garbage pick up, with an additional per-container fee for general waste. There is no additional fee for paper, metal, glass, yard waste or plastic, as long as it's offered in the right bin at the right time.
It's a mess. I've seen people dump their bags with dirty diapers in the park garbage can, for instance. Who are you going to fine ?
With the current budget, a robotic probe is the best we can do. And even if the budget was 1000 times bigger, we could do a lot more with 100 advanced probes than with a single human mission.
If a limiting mind provides a good explanation for the Fermi paradox (and all other observations) then it suffices. There's no good reason to assume all kinds of magic that we don't need to explain what we see.
It is possible that not enough intelligent life wants to do this to make it happen, but the distances between the stars themselves is not a great explanation for why it hasn't.
The distance plays a big role in not wanting this to happen. Personally, I'm not interested in funding a (very expensive) project that won't show any sign of result for thousands of years after I'm dead. Your "binary colonization" would fail to spread if success rate of landing, establishing a new civilization, and launching another round to a previously unexplored planet, was less than 50%.
Alpha Centauri and Epsilon Eridani, for example
Do these star systems have a suitable planet that we can travel to, land on, and then terraform to support human life, using only the stuff we brought on the ship ? If not, how far would we have to travel to find such planets ?
First, there are no physics barriers to visiting other stars, purely engineering ones.
Really ? Let's see your math. Assuming we'd like to land a 10 ton craft on an Earth like planet 4.5 light years away in a reasonable timeframe (say 25 years Earth time). How much fuel, and what kind of propulsion (in terms of mass-energy conversion efficiency) would we need ?
height of arrogant assumptions that technology isn't going to improve
Assuming magical technology is even more arrogant than a reasonable extrapolation of current progress.
We also see no signs of any sort of megastructures like Ring Worlds and Dyson Spheres
These structures are made from unobtainium and aren't passively stable. I wouldn't count on many civilizations being able and willing to build one. If you run out of room, genocide is a tried and proven solution, and much cheaper than building a Ring World. Also, most stars are too far away to see structures like that. Actually, most stars are too far away to see the star itself.
Instead of multiplying the probably with the total number of stars, we should multiply each probability with the inverse square distance of the star, and then integrate over the universe.
The square distance is a decent measure of detectability.
Simple answer to the paradox is that space is just too big. Technology to visit other stars may not be possible, or be sufficiently rare that expansion can go undetected.
Radio waves coming from Earth require something on the order of the Arecibo dish at the orbit of Pluto to be detected. From just a few light years, away detection would be pretty much impossible. And that's for old fashioned analog broadcasts. Modern digital broadcasts are much harder to detect, since they look like broadband noise.
Our optical spectrum would probably be easier to detect from a distance.
Same with random key generation. Stupid programs make me sit there and move the mouse randomly for 2 minutes, instead of just taking some bits from/dev/urandom, which is just as good.
ARM has been successful because they license their design, and the customer then integrates the ARM core with all the peripherals, memory interface, local memory, and possibly other cores into a SoC.
Do you expect Intel to adopt a licensing program ?
but another company, one that does not make such a drug (especially a company that is a competitor to the first) does have a strong incentive to produce a cure,
This company would make even more money if they just produced a competing drug to manage the disease rather than curing it.
Here are some examples of the best selling diabetes drugs, from different pharma companies. None of them would benefit from a cure.
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According to your definition, neither a child or chimp is intelligent because they can't pass the Turing Test.
If you're generating electricity, it's much more efficient to use that to charge electric cars, and reduce the amount of CO2 that goes into the atmosphere, rather than using inefficient methods to get it out.
Also, hydrogen fuel is a dumb idea. There is no infrastructure, conversion/storage is inefficient and it makes metals brittle. It's much better to focus on electric battery cars.
Just because you'd pay $4.99/month, doesn't mean they won't use your data anyway.
It's easier to leave fossil carbon in the ground than it is to bury fresh carbon.
We have a system like that. We pay a reduced price for garbage pick up, with an additional per-container fee for general waste. There is no additional fee for paper, metal, glass, yard waste or plastic, as long as it's offered in the right bin at the right time.
It's a mess. I've seen people dump their bags with dirty diapers in the park garbage can, for instance. Who are you going to fine ?
With the current budget, a robotic probe is the best we can do. And even if the budget was 1000 times bigger, we could do a lot more with 100 advanced probes than with a single human mission.
Such a limiting mind.
If a limiting mind provides a good explanation for the Fermi paradox (and all other observations) then it suffices. There's no good reason to assume all kinds of magic that we don't need to explain what we see.
Genocide works, until you have a civilization that has evolved further than humanity in terms of ethics
Why would that happen ? If genocide works, then the genes that promote genocide will be more successful and they will multiply faster.
It is possible that not enough intelligent life wants to do this to make it happen, but the distances between the stars themselves is not a great explanation for why it hasn't.
The distance plays a big role in not wanting this to happen. Personally, I'm not interested in funding a (very expensive) project that won't show any sign of result for thousands of years after I'm dead. Your "binary colonization" would fail to spread if success rate of landing, establishing a new civilization, and launching another round to a previously unexplored planet, was less than 50%.
Alpha Centauri and Epsilon Eridani, for example
Do these star systems have a suitable planet that we can travel to, land on, and then terraform to support human life, using only the stuff we brought on the ship ? If not, how far would we have to travel to find such planets ?
And if I buy a lottery ticket, it's either the $10-million winning ticket, or it isn't.
First, there are no physics barriers to visiting other stars, purely engineering ones.
Really ? Let's see your math. Assuming we'd like to land a 10 ton craft on an Earth like planet 4.5 light years away in a reasonable timeframe (say 25 years Earth time). How much fuel, and what kind of propulsion (in terms of mass-energy conversion efficiency) would we need ?
height of arrogant assumptions that technology isn't going to improve
Assuming magical technology is even more arrogant than a reasonable extrapolation of current progress.
We also see no signs of any sort of megastructures like Ring Worlds and Dyson Spheres
These structures are made from unobtainium and aren't passively stable. I wouldn't count on many civilizations being able and willing to build one. If you run out of room, genocide is a tried and proven solution, and much cheaper than building a Ring World. Also, most stars are too far away to see structures like that. Actually, most stars are too far away to see the star itself.
Instead of multiplying the probably with the total number of stars, we should multiply each probability with the inverse square distance of the star, and then integrate over the universe.
The square distance is a decent measure of detectability.
If we never accomplish interstellar travel, then in 5 billion years we die with our Sun's expansion.
It makes no sense to refer to our descendants 5 billion years from now, as "we", let alone worry about their fate.
https://xkcd.com/384/
Simple answer to the paradox is that space is just too big. Technology to visit other stars may not be possible, or be sufficiently rare that expansion can go undetected.
Radio waves coming from Earth require something on the order of the Arecibo dish at the orbit of Pluto to be detected. From just a few light years, away detection would be pretty much impossible. And that's for old fashioned analog broadcasts. Modern digital broadcasts are much harder to detect, since they look like broadband noise.
Our optical spectrum would probably be easier to detect from a distance.
What about someone on an all-water diet for a week or two who continues to exhale CO2?
You burn carbon from fat that you stored earlier when you were eating more than you needed.
Same with random key generation. Stupid programs make me sit there and move the mouse randomly for 2 minutes, instead of just taking some bits from /dev/urandom, which is just as good.
Why not expose the micro-ops to compilers?
Micro ops take up more space to perform the same operation, which would worsen the memory bottleneck.
Also, by exposing the micro ops, you lose all backwards compatibility.
Thirdly, the translation to micro ops can be optimized dynamically based on context.
ARM has been successful because they license their design, and the customer then integrates the ARM core with all the peripherals, memory interface, local memory, and possibly other cores into a SoC.
Do you expect Intel to adopt a licensing program ?
Most cases of type 2 can be prevented and treated with a better (no sugar/no grains) diet.
but another company, one that does not make such a drug (especially a company that is a competitor to the first) does have a strong incentive to produce a cure,
This company would make even more money if they just produced a competing drug to manage the disease rather than curing it.
Here are some examples of the best selling diabetes drugs, from different pharma companies. None of them would benefit from a cure.
https://www.pharmaceutical-tec...
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Space is much like air. You drop things from it that impact the ground
If you drop something from orbit, it doesn't impact the ground. It stays in orbit with you.
It's usually also easier to find an outlet for a wall-wart than installing network sockets everywhere.