Maybe we can just consider slowing down expansion of the human race? Where do you want to go? And once you have populated all the potential targets in our solar system, where else do you think you are going? It tooks over three decades to Voyager 1 and 2 to reach interstellar space, it will took 40000 years to reach the closest star. And we are not yet talking about the radiations living organisms will be exposed to even just to go to Mars, logistics to sustain hibernation and so on.
If such a thing is to happen, I am happily leaving it as an execice to do for the generations that will follow us in about a millenium or two. In the mean time, I would not engage massive resources in such a dream. There is other priorities for our short term survivability.
If something like digging moon's ground for He-3 is to happen, it shouldn't be done sending humans and establishing an inhabited permanent moon base, it should be done sending robots there. It is a complete waste of resources to send humans there. Robots and automated systems and semi-automated systems can do it efficiently if it worth to do it. Humans are inefficients, costly and vulnerables at this job.
The whole humans on the moon and humans travelling the solar system, space mining or whatever else you call that thing is just a wet dream to flatter the national identity, it has nothing to do with doing actual work.Robots, probes, semi-automated systems is the way to go.
No, current research in AI doesn't try to emulate the brain, it even doesn't study it. AI study knowledge, knowledge organization, logic and so on. Not biological brains and synapses.
AI is not having anything to do with brain mimetism. You are confusing things here. The Watson computer playing Jeopardy is not a brain-like device and is somewhat near what can be called AI.
This idea comes from 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, don't underestimate the effort to collect enough debris to build something useful. And you still have a high energy requirement here to transform these debris into something else.
Hum, I can accept the idea there is too many lawyers, too many financial counsellors and many other too many. But, too many Ph.D.? Provided the challenges humanity is facing, I don't think so. However, I can accept the idea we have not yet found a way to take advantage of all of them.
And vinegar, which is also a preservative. I suppose if you drink a gallon or two of vinegar you will obviously run into some health problems due to a change in your blood pH even before you have kill enough bacteria necessary for your digestive system to do its work.
Are you kidding us? You managed to pick a wife and cannot pick a Windows laptop? Are you trying to fool us thinking Bill Gates is much more evil than God himself?
And reminds me what Alberta and Saskatchewan were good for, before the oil barrel prices skyrocketted rendering tar sands exploitation profitable, beside a bunch of cowboys and farmers growing wheat and waiting for federal subsidaries to tie budget ends at the end of the month? And what was Newfoundland before Hibernia? Can you really believe the respectives citizens of these provinces are for something in the oil in their subsoil? Well, maybe they think so, provided there is many creationism adepts in these provinces.
So, why don't you let Quebec go, since it seems it is responsible for lowering you life level provided it is the third world type component in the otherwise successful Canada? I cannot explain why Canadians outside Quebec insist so much to keep it a part of this country if they believe it is so harmful to its economy and good wealth.
After all, may be Canadians are just stupids guys with a condescendent attitude?
You are so wrong and in fact, this hypothesis about the evolution of space-time of the universe is in fact very attractive, even if still an hypothesis. And making sometimes silly looking hypothesis is what we need to make a leap forward. Science history has proven this very well over the centuries.
Anyway, I am starting to believe we are now evolving to a higher dimensional universe with two time dimensions, otherwise how would you explain it is taking twice the time when my girlfiend is saying to me to wait a minute?
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If such a thing is to happen, I am happily leaving it as an execice to do for the generations that will follow us in about a millenium or two. In the mean time, I would not engage massive resources in such a dream. There is other priorities for our short term survivability.
The whole humans on the moon and humans travelling the solar system, space mining or whatever else you call that thing is just a wet dream to flatter the national identity, it has nothing to do with doing actual work.Robots, probes, semi-automated systems is the way to go.
No, current research in AI doesn't try to emulate the brain, it even doesn't study it. AI study knowledge, knowledge organization, logic and so on. Not biological brains and synapses.
AI is not having anything to do with brain mimetism. You are confusing things here. The Watson computer playing Jeopardy is not a brain-like device and is somewhat near what can be called AI.
This idea comes from 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, don't underestimate the effort to collect enough debris to build something useful. And you still have a high energy requirement here to transform these debris into something else.
Hum, I can accept the idea there is too many lawyers, too many financial counsellors and many other too many. But, too many Ph.D.? Provided the challenges humanity is facing, I don't think so. However, I can accept the idea we have not yet found a way to take advantage of all of them.
This is old news, I have already seen that on Chicken Run.
Entire physics departments in universities here are using Linux wall-to-wall. And it's not to be cool and hip, you dumbass.
Same here.
I was considering this comment rude before I read other comments about pros and cons and finally it is somewhat accurate.
And vinegar, which is also a preservative. I suppose if you drink a gallon or two of vinegar you will obviously run into some health problems due to a change in your blood pH even before you have kill enough bacteria necessary for your digestive system to do its work.
So, heat capacity of oil is twice air's heat capacity.
Mod this up, it's hilarious!
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/plutonium.html
Mine is twice as fast as yours, you just wait 5 seconds and go away with the originals.
Not hard to believe, this explains the Internet Explorer market share.
Are you kidding us? You managed to pick a wife and cannot pick a Windows laptop? Are you trying to fool us thinking Bill Gates is much more evil than God himself?
And reminds me what Alberta and Saskatchewan were good for, before the oil barrel prices skyrocketted rendering tar sands exploitation profitable, beside a bunch of cowboys and farmers growing wheat and waiting for federal subsidaries to tie budget ends at the end of the month? And what was Newfoundland before Hibernia? Can you really believe the respectives citizens of these provinces are for something in the oil in their subsoil? Well, maybe they think so, provided there is many creationism adepts in these provinces.
After all, may be Canadians are just stupids guys with a condescendent attitude?
Anyway, I am starting to believe we are now evolving to a higher dimensional universe with two time dimensions, otherwise how would you explain it is taking twice the time when my girlfiend is saying to me to wait a minute?
Okay, I admit, real geeks don't have girlfriends.
You mean nobody is trying to hijack my /. account to post stupid comments as if he was myself?
Keep a defibrillator in your kitchen, just in case you get the Blue Screen of Death.
Yes.
Well, I believe that's what we call a vertical market.
As long as you can make it instantaneously. Otherwise, putting aside you "water reserve" for fermentation for weeks may not be advisable.