We have been looking for "life" outside of our planet for quite a while
As opposed to what? A single human life-time? Looking at how long we've been looking since say, modern civilization's origins and it's only a fraction. Besides, the methods end up being somewhat like trying to find a needle(s) in a (cosmic) haystack using only a toothpick. We have no way as of yet to go FTL, which is the real barrier to finding other races.
It might not be a good idea to make contact with these races, but finding other Earth-like planets and spreading to them adds a level of... redundancy to the human race.
Because there are people that naturally paranoid enough to look at everyone coming towards them. Which is kinda ironic, the more paranoid you are, the more reason to be paranoid.
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Are you saying that A. spam is such a big problem it will annoy you off the internet(and not just e-mail?)
B. That no form of energy will ever be able to take over for oil?
C. Are we talking human or computer bugs? There are solutions for both. What's stopping humans in a few years from creating a second, nanotech, immune system?
D. Yes, because we all died in the year 666, 1000, 2000, and the cold war. The apocalypse is the stuff of firebrand preachers out to scare the god-fearing people, not reality.
Looking at the earthrise picture here it seems to me that it was taken by the orbiter, not the lander. The picture is taken from too high up an alititude to be anything but.
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Which brings up the point, what are we going to do when domain names get scarcer and scarecer? More top-level domains? Change it so that there's a www2., www3. ?
The post is meant to be 'in general, it's a good idea'. I understand that the filesystems are different and it would take time and money to port in this instance.
But it might just be stupid. The tech world is still new enough that there can be very quick upsets and someday soon we might have a world that's more like 50% Windows, 30% OSX/XI, and 20% Other. Starting development now on other platforms builds redundancy that won't dissapear if 40% of your market dissapears.
2600 is a great magazine, and not just because of it's target group. It allows anyone to write in articles with a good chance they'll be accepted if they're good. There arn't any advertisements like you get in pretty much every other magazine, and it's always an interesting read.
No, they'll still come back because you're free and trustable(i.e. you have non-profit motives). And they'll be more likely to let you tell they what to do than before.
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Maybe it's the "free as in not going to get your ass sued in a few years when things are better off" argument that works in that situation?
Or maybe the "it works well on a bunch of thrown together parts" argument?
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Computers are fairly common there actually, I remember reading a story in the NYT about how a IT person for one of the army units went out to buy a bunch of 64mb flash drives and was able to find a lot of (pirated) software like Photoshop and Windows at the store.
Because it's not the Ub3r l337 h4x0r convention, it's the hacker convention in the questing for knowlegde sense. Hacking isn't breaking into b0x3n, it's learning everything possible that interests you.
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We have been looking for "life" outside of our planet for quite a while
As opposed to what? A single human life-time? Looking at how long we've been looking since say, modern civilization's origins and it's only a fraction. Besides, the methods end up being somewhat like trying to find a needle(s) in a (cosmic) haystack using only a toothpick. We have no way as of yet to go FTL, which is the real barrier to finding other races.
It might not be a good idea to make contact with these races, but finding other Earth-like planets and spreading to them adds a level of... redundancy to the human race.
They could use one of those power-conductive mats that's supposed to replace charger cords.
Because there are people that naturally paranoid enough to look at everyone coming towards them. Which is kinda ironic, the more paranoid you are, the more reason to be paranoid.
Gah, disregard that, should have scrolled down further before posting. Here is what he was talking about.
Were you talking about this post?:
"Was he hosting copies of the show ? "
Emphasis mine.
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Are you saying that A. spam is such a big problem it will annoy you off the internet(and not just e-mail?)
B. That no form of energy will ever be able to take over for oil?
C. Are we talking human or computer bugs? There are solutions for both. What's stopping humans in a few years from creating a second, nanotech, immune system? D. Yes, because we all died in the year 666, 1000, 2000, and the cold war. The apocalypse is the stuff of firebrand preachers out to scare the god-fearing people, not reality.
I predict the first transimission back will be "Please come get me off this hell-hole of a planet."
Unless, of course, there would actually be a AP inside this huge faraday cage.
Yes, but odds are we arn't in the habit of landing billions of dollars worth of equitment on the side of a mountain or large crater.
Looking at the earthrise picture here it seems to me that it was taken by the orbiter, not the lander. The picture is taken from too high up an alititude to be anything but.
Which brings up the point, what are we going to do when domain names get scarcer and scarecer? More top-level domains? Change it so that there's a www2., www3. ?
The post is meant to be 'in general, it's a good idea'. I understand that the filesystems are different and it would take time and money to port in this instance.
But it might just be stupid. The tech world is still new enough that there can be very quick upsets and someday soon we might have a world that's more like 50% Windows, 30% OSX/XI, and 20% Other. Starting development now on other platforms builds redundancy that won't dissapear if 40% of your market dissapears.
Are costs of living about 40% less as well?
Obligatory, "I guess this is news for nerds, but is it stuff that matters?" post.
You'd think that with those little metal spikes sticking into the martian dirt they would be able to ground the thing.
Photoshop, Sound editors, movie editors, it adds up. Mind you, probably not to 10 grand, but it is a significant amount of money.
2600 is a great magazine, and not just because of it's target group. It allows anyone to write in articles with a good chance they'll be accepted if they're good. There arn't any advertisements like you get in pretty much every other magazine, and it's always an interesting read.
Sadly, this is more insightful than funny. This government seems to run off of "donations" instead of "logic".
getting people out of orbit, while easier than in, is still quite dangerous and uses significant fuel
Really? How much fuel did SpaceShipOne use to land after it reached it's apex?
No, they'll still come back because you're free and trustable(i.e. you have non-profit motives). And they'll be more likely to let you tell they what to do than before.
Maybe it's the "free as in not going to get your ass sued in a few years when things are better off" argument that works in that situation?
Or maybe the "it works well on a bunch of thrown together parts" argument?
Computers are fairly common there actually, I remember reading a story in the NYT about how a IT person for one of the army units went out to buy a bunch of 64mb flash drives and was able to find a lot of (pirated) software like Photoshop and Windows at the store.
Because it's not the Ub3r l337 h4x0r convention, it's the hacker convention in the questing for knowlegde sense. Hacking isn't breaking into b0x3n, it's learning everything possible that interests you.
The theme this year is propaganda, which I think it's hard to argue that advertising isn't.