Lithium isn't that hard to extract. ICE cars have usually lousy acceleration starting out of the gate. Electricity can be generated from a lot of different sources.
I remember the original ITER propaganda. Originally it did not have DEMO on it as a successor. It was supposed to be the direct precursor to an actual power plant. They added that afterwards. It has been nearly two decades since that and they still haven't built it. While some things did happen to improve tokamaks, like the superconducting magnets used in JT-60 and Tore Supra, or the improved plasma control and stability they demonstrated in D-III, the same problems still exist. You can only generate net energy with D-T fusion and the reactor walls can't survive the neutron flux of D-T fusion long enough for a viable reactor to exist. Until THAT gets solved you are not going to see any commercial fusion reactor. Even if they solved that it is going to be huge and expensive. A lot more expensive than a fission nuclear reactor. Unless they manage to make the plasma more dense or something.
I do not think it is impossible to come up with an AI. I just think that they oversimplify things by thinking in terms of transistors in a conventional planar chip. The human brain is a 3D computer. We are not even quite sure how it works in a fundamental idea. But it sure isn't binary. We know how some things work but it is not possible to model it accurately with current knowledge. Every single time I see estimates of how many transistors on a planar chip are required to model the human brain the number gets bigger.
Other people say we can emulate intelligence without emulating the human brain. e.g. airplanes use lift as well but are less complicated than bird wings. Well yeah sure. We have automated a lot of tasks people used to take for granted required some degree of intelligence to do. This will continue happening. But a full blown AI with less hardware complexity than that in the human brain? Good luck.
Of course you are going to have less payload with a reusable rocket. The whole idea is that the launch cost per kg will be lower and you use more launches to get the same mass up. Or build a bigger launch vehicle. The problem is if you get zero or negative payload in the process...
I won't post on your site because you don't allow anonymous posts and I have better stuff to do than create yet another login. Anyway:
The commenter 'Lars' is wrong. The Russians use solid retrorockets on Soyuz before landing. You can still survive a Soyuz capsule landing with them firing, with only the parachutes, but the results aren't pleasant.
Plus if the mind is software-based you have the philosophical implications of knowing that it is built on a 100% deterministic foundation, and thus cannot possibly possess free will.
Which is something even creationistic Christians don't believe in. We are supposed to have free will according to the Bible. Yet supposedly God can predict the future. So maybe it is all pseudo-randomly generated after all.:-)
I wouldn't be surprised if we figure out some way to extend life beyond what is considered usual. But I suspect the 'cure' won't be able to be retrofitted to those already born without the modifications. That would be a riot.
Some of us believe we already have some form of post-mortem immortality. I'm better off doing something else. This world would be boring if people lived forever anyway.
This is hardly a new idea. You just have to read about the Persian Empire to see this happening. The Roman Empire did not skirt doing this either. Quite often they simply won a war by bribing someone into killing their main opponent.
IMO downsizing in time of peace is a good idea. Most often than not weapons get horribly outdated if any real war breaks out. The true measure of what will win a war are manpower resources and industrial capacity. You still need to keep some troops around though. Someone has to provide an early response. Otherwise you get those uneasy 'peace' periods like the Phoney War during WWII.
US forces have been in the process of being redeployed from Europe to Asia for quite some time now. Just the amount of US troops in Japan and South Korea alone is nothing to sneeze at.
I can sort of get why the U-2 is getting canned. Global Hawk can probably do the same job. But the A-10? To put more dough into the F-35 project? Please.
Not to mention the liver transplant he got. People his age usually get pushed all the way back to the transplant list. Even then, after he got his liver, did he even bother taking his pills to at least ensure he lived a bit longer so the transplant wasn't useless? No. He did a crazy mystical diet where he died shortly afterwards.
No. Want I don't get is how him being a prick in bed, pun intended, somehow is supposed to render null and void all the work he did at Wikileaks. It doesn't compute.
The woman who had the sex with him dropped out the accusation man. She voluntarily let him in her bedroom and had voluntary sex with him before. She just wasn't 'in the mood' one of the times he did sex with her. That is a crime in Sweden? Good thing I don't live there.
The information he released did not only implicate people in the US. It just happened most information he got came from the US so that's what he published that is all.
I don't expect Julian to be flawless. I never do. No one is flawless.
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A least you can use Magic the Gathering cards to wipe your bottom. Bitcoins can't even be used for that man.
Minecraft is virtual LEGO. Nothing more nothing less.
Lithium isn't that hard to extract. ICE cars have usually lousy acceleration starting out of the gate. Electricity can be generated from a lot of different sources.
I remember the original ITER propaganda. Originally it did not have DEMO on it as a successor. It was supposed to be the direct precursor to an actual power plant. They added that afterwards. It has been nearly two decades since that and they still haven't built it. While some things did happen to improve tokamaks, like the superconducting magnets used in JT-60 and Tore Supra, or the improved plasma control and stability they demonstrated in D-III, the same problems still exist. You can only generate net energy with D-T fusion and the reactor walls can't survive the neutron flux of D-T fusion long enough for a viable reactor to exist. Until THAT gets solved you are not going to see any commercial fusion reactor. Even if they solved that it is going to be huge and expensive. A lot more expensive than a fission nuclear reactor. Unless they manage to make the plasma more dense or something.
Meshed wireless networks.
I'll just take a screenshot with my camera then.
I do not think it is impossible to come up with an AI. I just think that they oversimplify things by thinking in terms of transistors in a conventional planar chip. The human brain is a 3D computer. We are not even quite sure how it works in a fundamental idea. But it sure isn't binary. We know how some things work but it is not possible to model it accurately with current knowledge. Every single time I see estimates of how many transistors on a planar chip are required to model the human brain the number gets bigger.
Other people say we can emulate intelligence without emulating the human brain. e.g. airplanes use lift as well but are less complicated than bird wings. Well yeah sure. We have automated a lot of tasks people used to take for granted required some degree of intelligence to do. This will continue happening. But a full blown AI with less hardware complexity than that in the human brain? Good luck.
There is more overlap than you seem to think. Those are just a couple of examples. Just Google.
Of course you are going to have less payload with a reusable rocket. The whole idea is that the launch cost per kg will be lower and you use more launches to get the same mass up. Or build a bigger launch vehicle. The problem is if you get zero or negative payload in the process...
The salt water is less of a problem than the impact. Truax tested firing rockets underwater. It works fine if you chose the materials adequately.
I won't post on your site because you don't allow anonymous posts and I have better stuff to do than create yet another login. Anyway:
The commenter 'Lars' is wrong. The Russians use solid retrorockets on Soyuz before landing. You can still survive a Soyuz capsule landing with them firing, with only the parachutes, but the results aren't pleasant.
Plus if the mind is software-based you have the philosophical implications of knowing that it is built on a 100% deterministic foundation, and thus cannot possibly possess free will.
Which is something even creationistic Christians don't believe in. We are supposed to have free will according to the Bible. Yet supposedly God can predict the future. So maybe it is all pseudo-randomly generated after all. :-)
I wouldn't be surprised if we figure out some way to extend life beyond what is considered usual. But I suspect the 'cure' won't be able to be retrofitted to those already born without the modifications. That would be a riot.
Some of us believe we already have some form of post-mortem immortality. I'm better off doing something else. This world would be boring if people lived forever anyway.
I guess Google is joining Japan in its 5th Generation Computer folly. Good luck!
This is hardly a new idea. You just have to read about the Persian Empire to see this happening. The Roman Empire did not skirt doing this either. Quite often they simply won a war by bribing someone into killing their main opponent.
IMO downsizing in time of peace is a good idea. Most often than not weapons get horribly outdated if any real war breaks out. The true measure of what will win a war are manpower resources and industrial capacity. You still need to keep some troops around though. Someone has to provide an early response. Otherwise you get those uneasy 'peace' periods like the Phoney War during WWII.
US forces have been in the process of being redeployed from Europe to Asia for quite some time now. Just the amount of US troops in Japan and South Korea alone is nothing to sneeze at.
A lot of the items labeled as 'social security' are in fact veterans benefits.
I can sort of get why the U-2 is getting canned. Global Hawk can probably do the same job. But the A-10? To put more dough into the F-35 project? Please.
Its not that hard to count cars in traffic and see if the road is congested or not.
They killed my Poppy!
Microsoft doesn't like nudists. Move along, move along.
Not to mention the liver transplant he got. People his age usually get pushed all the way back to the transplant list. Even then, after he got his liver, did he even bother taking his pills to at least ensure he lived a bit longer so the transplant wasn't useless? No. He did a crazy mystical diet where he died shortly afterwards.
No. Want I don't get is how him being a prick in bed, pun intended, somehow is supposed to render null and void all the work he did at Wikileaks. It doesn't compute.
Oh and by coincidence she only decided to put the accusation up AFTER she learned he slept with someone else. Go figure.
The woman who had the sex with him dropped out the accusation man. She voluntarily let him in her bedroom and had voluntary sex with him before. She just wasn't 'in the mood' one of the times he did sex with her. That is a crime in Sweden? Good thing I don't live there.
The information he released did not only implicate people in the US. It just happened most information he got came from the US so that's what he published that is all.
I don't expect Julian to be flawless. I never do. No one is flawless.