Near instantaneous for almost zero fee, congratulations you've described everything everyone already uses.
The world is bigger than your wallet and Starbucks. Ever used paypal, for instance ? Ever lived in a country with massive inflation ? Ever traded internationally ?
Maybe it's typical for intelligent life to last billions of years
We've already seen the rise and fall of two dozen major civilizations here on Earth, so I wouldn't put my money on us surviving billions of years in a state capable enough to support interstellar communications.
Fees are pretty low right now, and tests with Lightning Network are looking pretty good too. LN allows for near instantaneous payments for almost zero fee.
yet the train is going at 1.2 light speed when measured against the outer ring.
No, it's going 0.88235 light speed when measured against the outer ring, because you have to apply the Lorentz transformation when adding relativistic speeds. The relative velocity of any two objects can never exceed the speed of light no matter how clever you set it up.
If intelligent life 15 light years away can give us schematics for FTL drives, we could go there within a lifetime
There are maybe 100 stars within a 15 light year radius, and the chance that any of them happen to have intelligent life right at this moment is very slim.
It's also a block 3 booster, which takes a lot more effort to refurbish than newly developed block 5 variant. They already have enough old boosters, so they don't really care about saving another block 3 booster even if they could.
dump something into your body that your brain thinks is sweet. It dumps insulin
If that were true, I could cause hypoglycemia by drinking a bunch of diet coke. Doesn't happen. Try it yourself. Get a $25 glucometer and measure before and after drinking a bunch of diet drinks. You'll see there's no difference.
I drink normal Mt. Dew, and my blood sugar's been fine for 40 years.
High blood sugar is the end stage of type II diabetes. The beginning stages are glucose toxicity and insulin resistance, and those are already damaging to your cells. The body's first response is to crank up the amount of insulin to force the excess glucose into the cells. This can go on for decades. Only when the pancreas can no longer produce the high levels of insulin is when you start to notice your blood sugar going up.
All the materialist positions run into this simple fact
If there was such a simple and valid argument that could undermine the materialist position, there wouldn't be so many materialists. Apparently, the argument is less convincing than you think it is.
should you wake up to a higher level after you leave this body
We have never seen any sign that this is possible. Your theory is running into a brick wall here.
Any candidate colonists has to pass tests to ensure that they are healthy and don't carry genetic diseases that can pose a problem. They also have to be mentally stable.
Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
The last time something like this happened was billions of years ago when the moon was created. Why would we worry about the most unlikely events.
And even if you want to worry about those things, there is no rush. If our society will continue to advance in the next 1000 years, they will be in a much better position to colonize Mars. And if society collapses in the next 1000 years, it would have been futile anyway.
Build a bunker deep inside a mountain, and have a bunch of people hide there until the dust settles. That is, if you care about such a thing in the first place.
I only know one that had attempts at people living in them: Biosphere 2, and it was a flop.
Airlocks, space suits, computers, etc. will need to be imported until local infrastructure has become sufficiently industrialized, but that's always been the case with new colonies.
You also need to import everything to build a sufficiently industrialized infrastructure. There's not enough stuff lying around to bootstrap an industrial base without massive amounts of equipment.
Maybe we should do an experiment on Earth first. Send a bunch of people to the Gobi desert, and see how long it takes before they can build a working toaster out of natural resources. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He and his wife also completely missed the agricultural Green Revolution which had been happening for 40 years by 1968.
He may have completely missed it, but you're missing the fact that these Green Revolutions aren't going to happen over and over again every time the world needs more food.
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Near instantaneous for almost zero fee, congratulations you've described everything everyone already uses.
The world is bigger than your wallet and Starbucks. Ever used paypal, for instance ? Ever lived in a country with massive inflation ? Ever traded internationally ?
Maybe it's typical for intelligent life to last billions of years
We've already seen the rise and fall of two dozen major civilizations here on Earth, so I wouldn't put my money on us surviving billions of years in a state capable enough to support interstellar communications.
Fees are pretty low right now, and tests with Lightning Network are looking pretty good too. LN allows for near instantaneous payments for almost zero fee.
yet the train is going at 1.2 light speed when measured against the outer ring.
No, it's going 0.88235 light speed when measured against the outer ring, because you have to apply the Lorentz transformation when adding relativistic speeds. The relative velocity of any two objects can never exceed the speed of light no matter how clever you set it up.
If intelligent life 15 light years away can give us schematics for FTL drives, we could go there within a lifetime
There are maybe 100 stars within a 15 light year radius, and the chance that any of them happen to have intelligent life right at this moment is very slim.
It's also a block 3 booster, which takes a lot more effort to refurbish than newly developed block 5 variant. They already have enough old boosters, so they don't really care about saving another block 3 booster even if they could.
50% chance you don't even nee to go anywhere.
0% chance for me.
There's no profit because they create same amount of debt at the same time. Debts + assets remain zero.
Meetings are easily moved. However since I am currently in the Netherlands it's that "somewhere without cloud" that is woefully impractical :)
You also need "somewhere without daylight", which is even more impractical.
Stories are here to annoy Neil deGrasse Tyson. That's all.
the first number anyone looks at when looking for diabetes is high blood sugar.
That's because it's cheap and easy to measure. It would be much more insightful to do an insulin response test, but that's more expensive.
Here's an informative video and interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
dump something into your body that your brain thinks is sweet. It dumps insulin
If that were true, I could cause hypoglycemia by drinking a bunch of diet coke. Doesn't happen. Try it yourself. Get a $25 glucometer and measure before and after drinking a bunch of diet drinks. You'll see there's no difference.
I drink normal Mt. Dew, and my blood sugar's been fine for 40 years.
High blood sugar is the end stage of type II diabetes. The beginning stages are glucose toxicity and insulin resistance, and those are already damaging to your cells. The body's first response is to crank up the amount of insulin to force the excess glucose into the cells. This can go on for decades. Only when the pancreas can no longer produce the high levels of insulin is when you start to notice your blood sugar going up.
The high blood sugar is usually the result of high dietary sugar.
Learn to enjoy natural taste without added sweetness.
Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize faces. People can still see the face itself and the features, they just can't recognize who it belongs to.
All the materialist positions run into this simple fact
If there was such a simple and valid argument that could undermine the materialist position, there wouldn't be so many materialists. Apparently, the argument is less convincing than you think it is.
should you wake up to a higher level after you leave this body
We have never seen any sign that this is possible. Your theory is running into a brick wall here.
So if the idea is that complex consciousness (animals, humans) derive from the consciousness of the mass of aggregated simple particles
and if that's the case, then why aren't the other things conscious ? Like chairs or trees, or my left buttock ?
The ISS is also a glorified disco ball, but slightly more expensive.
Any candidate colonists has to pass tests to ensure that they are healthy and don't carry genetic diseases that can pose a problem. They also have to be mentally stable.
Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
The last time something like this happened was billions of years ago when the moon was created. Why would we worry about the most unlikely events.
And even if you want to worry about those things, there is no rush. If our society will continue to advance in the next 1000 years, they will be in a much better position to colonize Mars. And if society collapses in the next 1000 years, it would have been futile anyway.
Build a bunker deep inside a mountain, and have a bunch of people hide there until the dust settles. That is, if you care about such a thing in the first place.
Sealed terrariums have been done for decades
I only know one that had attempts at people living in them: Biosphere 2, and it was a flop.
Airlocks, space suits, computers, etc. will need to be imported until local infrastructure has become sufficiently industrialized, but that's always been the case with new colonies.
You also need to import everything to build a sufficiently industrialized infrastructure. There's not enough stuff lying around to bootstrap an industrial base without massive amounts of equipment.
Maybe we should do an experiment on Earth first. Send a bunch of people to the Gobi desert, and see how long it takes before they can build a working toaster out of natural resources. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He and his wife also completely missed the agricultural Green Revolution which had been happening for 40 years by 1968.
He may have completely missed it, but you're missing the fact that these Green Revolutions aren't going to happen over and over again every time the world needs more food.
My browser has a 'close tab' feature that quickly stops any self playing shit.
ATMs and Vending Machines don't do any problem solving
They solve the problem of how to figure out what the customer wants, and get them to pay for their order.