The Big Bang didn't have a center? Just pointing out that calling it "an expansion" also requires it to have a center within space.
Not really. As is usually explained, think of the universe as the surface of a ballon. Now blow the balloon up. The surface expands, but doesn't have a center just like the surface doesn't have any edges. Of course the surface of the balloon is 2D which we are describing in 3D. Our universe is 3D which is why it is often described in even more dimensions.
For a while after the big bang, the universe was opaque, so there would be nothing to see.
True. For those not familiar, after the big bang, the universe was really hot. Too hot for matter like we know it to even exist for long. A newly formed electron would just collide with another newly created electron or photons of sufficient energy to turn it also back to energy. As space time expanded, things cooled down because the energy density was reduced to the point that particles could form and not turn be turned back into energy. Even after normal particles of matter were able to exist, it was still to hot to form atoms as the electrons would constantly be stripped off. Thus all the matter was in a plasma. Plasma, as a charged particle, will happily interact with EM waves, and since the universe was full of this plasma, the universe was opaque because the mean path that a photon could travel before interacting with a charged particle, being absorbed and then being re-emitted was quite small. We saw the same effect with the space shuttle when it re-entered the atmosphere. During a period of its re-entry, the air became a plasma and essentially opaque to any sort of radio communication, so their was always a period of time when the space shuttle could not communicate with the ground as it landed.
We needed/some/ horde of faceless bad guys after Nazi Germany and the USSR fell, so now we have zombies.
Uh, we needed some more bad guys?
No, because zombies aren't the bad guys. Zombies are a natural disaster that can be shot in the face for action. The real bad guys are the other survivors and their interactions after the break down of society that is supposed to happen. If Jack London had been born later he'd write zombie stories about man died because they were stupid but the dogs survived because of their natural instincts.
In an actual zombie apocalypse I think my list of threats would be:
1. Opportunistic bastards (thugs, gangs)
2. Desperate bastards (hungry, cold, afraid)
3. Devious bastards (poisoned, stabbed in sleep)
4. Survival skills (and fighting for the good spots)
5. Zombies
Which is the point of zombie movies and the media niche they fill. The conflict in them all is not Man versus Zombie, but Man versus Man. Zombies are nothing more than a natural disaster that can be shot in the face for greater action and the real drama is the survivor's interactions with each other.
Your warehouse might work, but a high rise tower would be a terrible position. You have to figure that the power grid would go down and emergency generators would soon be out of fuel, so no elevators. How many flights of stairs do you want to climb on a regular basis while carrying food, water and fuel?
Being in a tower with only a couple of escape routes also leaves you very vulnerable to human predators who will be looking to steal everything you have.
If I actually lived in such a place, I'd probably try to stay put during the mass exodus and the initial die-off, but I certainly wouldn't seek out a tall building as a permanent base of operations.
You don't send people out to find stuff to carry up. You just go up to the third floor or so, barricade the stairwells, and send people up to scavenge the upper floors for survival materials. Just make sure that the high rise has apartments, stores, restaurants, or something other than offices above you'll get sick of eating chocolate candies off of secretaries desks.
But again, as a group of True Believers who doesn't accept the potential to lose as a real possibility, that change may not happen.
It's worse than that, according to their beliefs, they must lose, everybody having been killed except for a small group, before Jesus returns to grant them victory.
A scietifically-minded species such as ours should have been sufficiently intelligent to create a more efficient spelling system than this. Let's just hope that future generations seize the opportunity to get rid of this ancient and inefficient spelling rule.
Counter point to that feeling is that the language and people using it benefit far more by being able to adopt foreign words than they would be by using standardized spelling.
It wasn't in the original test version that they showed in CA and TX, or that they (mistakenly?) sent to the Egyptian Theater in Seattle around 2001 for the midnight movie. There was no voice overs. I like the voice overs. I'm glad they're there and think it is a better movie for it, but they weren't in that original version (as well as some other scenes) and it did change the feeling of the film.
True enough. And if they didn't have money for treatment, then they won't have money for the ER visit. Since many for profit hospitals are downgrading their ERs to urgent care and shuffling ambulances to country hospitals, that means that those costs get paid by the taxpayers.
Leon puts his hand in freezing liquid without a problem.
Pris puts her hand in boiling water without a problem.
I always thought those were more to show that the replicants had more control over their human++ bodies, being able to bypass feeling pain, or inflict it on themselves voluntarily, like Roy Batty did with the nail.
They were to show the superior to human abilities, same as Zhora kicking and screaming on the ground after having been shot multiple times with a BFG. they punch through metal, they take great abuse, they are certainly portrayed as being superhuman in their abilities.
And, unless they somehow account for how Deckard the replicant has grown old... I just don't see how they get there at all.
"'More human than human' is our motto. Here we have replicants that are so human they think they are human. Most, even with programming, come to realize what they really are. These are not as powerful as the Nexus 6 which allows for a longer life span, and they even age. Our goal is to eventually build them so their internal mechanics will allow them to self replicate. Imagine that. Replicants that are self replicating and believing they are human, perform any function that we might require a human to do but without as much discontent because we can program and control their moods, beliefs, and desires so much more than that of a human."
The relationship between Deckard and Rachel works better if he is human. The idea of a human Blade Runner coming to love what he was trained to destroy is tragic and redemptive.
Ya, right. Watch the original test viewing version sometime. It becomes obvious that Deckard is just a lonely, selfish man who finds himself with a woman that has to side with him because her life is at stake. Complete with near rape scene where he corners her and makes her say she loves him because to do otherwise would most certainly mean her death. There was certainly a reason they added the narration to what was the theatrical version, and that's because the original version was a little too dark and noir. It's softened by the narration, but he's still running off with a woman that supposedly fell in love with him in a few hours?
My personal take and theory which is not really backed up by anything but my personal head canon, is that he is a replicant. The entire thing was pretty much a set up to get the two of them together. "'More human than human' is our motto." Why bother with colonists when they could use replicants without such a short lifespan who think they are colonists? Perhaps they could even breed. This comes from a couple of things. One being that, Deckard looks a lot like Holden. So much that in the first viewing, I was afraid they had already killed harrison Ford's character in the opening scene. Roy does call Deckard by name even though they had never met before. The only place he might have found Deckard's name would be in Tyrell's suite. Deckard also does pretty when when getting punched by Leon. He loses a tooth, but that wouldn't be unusual for getting hit by a big guy, let alone one who can punch through metal. There is certainly a case that Deckard is more durable than a normal human.
And that's kind of the problem... Blade Runner would be a terrible movie to a kid.
I don't know. I was 12 and seeing it only because Harrison Ford/Han Solo was in it. From the opening scene of fireballs and giant buildings in a small city to the death of Roy, the movie blew me away. I was expecting something like Star Wars but this was new, different; perspective changing. Perhaps one of the reasons I like the narration in the theatrical version. The setting and scene was a stark contrast to the clean futures of science fiction that were almost always portrayed, but once the narrations started, I knew enough of the hardboiled detective stereotype that everything fell into place. What was old is new again. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and today's fancy neighborhoods are tomorrow's slums. It was one of those things that as a kid opened my mind to new ideas.
That being said, the other film we could have seen was Megaforce with Chuck Norris (which I had already seen and thought stupid). My friend really didn't get Bladerunner and didn't understand and afterwards stated he thought he would have rather seen Megaforce. Unfortuantely, I had to agree with him, he would have enjoyed Megaforce much more than Bladerunner.
"the space is at 100% of its capacity to hold matter" You can say that, but that doesn't make it so.
OK, Einstein. You win. You've conclusively proven that there is indeed nothing limiting how fast a black hole can grow, and you can now collect your Nobel Prize in physics.
Nope. They need to show their math first. Until they come up with the math, then they need to apply for the Nobel Prize in philosophy, not physics.
Yeah, I was just talking to an Italian girl who broke her wrist in the U.S. An American hospital charged her $1,000 for an x-ray that would have cost $20 in Italy.
Majority share of that is due to insurance companies currently. The way they mostly work these days is that the insurance company asks to see the hospitals Master Charge Record, the advertised prices of procedures, and then offers to pay pennies to the dollar based on it. Usually this is between 33-66%. They can do this because hospitals need to be able to accept those insurances or they don't get customers. So, whatever you see on the hospital bill, is actually two to three times what the hospital actually requires and actually gets for any procedure as any self payers are usually non-payers, so the only real source of revenue for hospitals is from insurance.
Then, since US hospitals are in direct competition with each other, they can't just have any old equipment. They need a newer and better x-ray machine than the other hospitals to convince doctors to send their patients to them. They also need newer and better rooms and care for so that the patients will have a good opinion of the hospital and go back. Hospitals are a service industry in the USA.
On top of all that, most hospital departments lose money. The usual big ones that bring in the money and pay for the rest of the hospital are surgery, pharmacy, and radiology because those are the big ticket items that usually aren't performed unless the money is there upfront.
That an X-ray is $20 in Italy, tells me that they are either using old equipment, lightly trained staff, or get significant subsidy from someplace like the government. The cost difference isn't that much between the euro and dollar and an X-ray is going to require attention of at least a doctor and probably an x-ray tech and a doctor, the cost of the machine, PACS system, dictation, RIS and EMR plus support contracts, the property of the hospital it takes up itself, plus all the support staff that come with it. Now it could be that she could end up in some country doctor's house with a broken foot and they pulled out their portable DR machine from a closet and x-rayed her foot on the kitchen table and they did all the paperwork themselves that night. I've heard stories of similar things happening to people I know in Europe without any report of lack of quality, as yes, things are different in Europe to the point that people in the US have a hard time imagining them.
I'm in Seattle. So long as you didn't blow the smoke in their face, the police would just shrug. If they were the police patrolling Hempfest, they'd hand you a bag of chips.
You Space Nutters are seriously mentally ill. You *CAN* LIVE in Thailand! You CAN'T on Mars!
Why is this BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS fact not registering in your tiny Space Nutter brain!!!!!?????
Well, when it gets down to it, you CAN GET to Thailand. They CAN'T TRAVEL to Mars. There's a 100% chance of survival through Mars One Program because nobody is actually going to go anywhere. But, if they are going to play at having the tech to get four people and a long term space habitat into space, on its way to Mars, and able to land reliably, then playing at having the needed tech to let them live there till they die of old age is relatively trivial. Of course, for that matter, the tech to get them back to Earth would be even more trivial.
The end result however is that TV is dying. People are increasingly just reading the net, and at most maybe keeping up with a few well made cable series. The short term pursuit of profits have killed TV in the long term.
Actually, I think we're heading into a new golden age of TV. Besides actual airtime on TV, there are now plenty of outlets for the same shows on demand. There seems to be an endless supply of new series coming out that are actually well done that people are watching. Steaming, recording, and on demand seem to be the future and it is TV that is happily supplying the content.
You can always have them officially ship it to your home address, but put a "hold for pickup at UPS/FedEx location" instruction on it. Then you just grab it before/after work, or over lunch hour.
More like grab it after taking half a day off work IME. Drive across town to the airport. Find their warehouse. Figure out which door goes to the office you're supposed to pick the package up at. Then stand in line for an hour before even talking to a person.Then wait for then to see if they can actually find your package.
I'll certainly tell you what my frequent medicinal user friends tell me. So it's you, an internet unknown, versus people I interact with all the time and have known for years if not decades. For everybody else reading, they can decide for themselves.
Yeah, there's a difference between driving after a drink with dinner and driving drunk, just like there's a difference between driving high and driving stoned. Only an idiot would drive stoned, though I'm not quite sure how they'd find their keys... or car, for that matter... or how they'd get off the couch in the first place.
It's a matter of what they are used to and what they have trained themselves too. Sure, I can't even think about getting off the couch to go to bed when I get stoned, but my smoking experiences are countable on one hand. Friends, who do it habitually, have different routines and explain it as a matter of training themselves. Some smoke and just play games, sometimes complex and twitchy games, but they are focused on the game at the right level of zoning out everything else. Others will toke up before doing lots of repetative work and just be content with doing the same thing over and over and over. It's all a matter of being familiar and having trained themselves to do it. I've even known woodworkers that will toke up and work while high. Sure they're working with dangerous machinery, but if they know their safety routines, they are quite happy to slowly go through all the various steps to maintain safety where most people that get hurt get in a hurry and skip some of those steps.
These people aren't going to die of old age or related causes.
Yes they will, because there is no realistic way they are doing anything but participating in a PR stunt. While engaging in such a fantasy as that they will ever see a space space ship built, they might as well say they will also form a self-sustaining colony on Mars at the same time.
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The Big Bang didn't have a center? Just pointing out that calling it "an expansion" also requires it to have a center within space.
Not really. As is usually explained, think of the universe as the surface of a ballon. Now blow the balloon up. The surface expands, but doesn't have a center just like the surface doesn't have any edges. Of course the surface of the balloon is 2D which we are describing in 3D. Our universe is 3D which is why it is often described in even more dimensions.
For a while after the big bang, the universe was opaque, so there would be nothing to see.
True. For those not familiar, after the big bang, the universe was really hot. Too hot for matter like we know it to even exist for long. A newly formed electron would just collide with another newly created electron or photons of sufficient energy to turn it also back to energy. As space time expanded, things cooled down because the energy density was reduced to the point that particles could form and not turn be turned back into energy. Even after normal particles of matter were able to exist, it was still to hot to form atoms as the electrons would constantly be stripped off. Thus all the matter was in a plasma. Plasma, as a charged particle, will happily interact with EM waves, and since the universe was full of this plasma, the universe was opaque because the mean path that a photon could travel before interacting with a charged particle, being absorbed and then being re-emitted was quite small. We saw the same effect with the space shuttle when it re-entered the atmosphere. During a period of its re-entry, the air became a plasma and essentially opaque to any sort of radio communication, so their was always a period of time when the space shuttle could not communicate with the ground as it landed.
Facebook doesn't really enforce their real names policy. G+ does.
I've always seen the exact opposite.
We needed /some/ horde of faceless bad guys after Nazi Germany and the USSR fell, so now we have zombies.
Uh, we needed some more bad guys?
No, because zombies aren't the bad guys. Zombies are a natural disaster that can be shot in the face for action. The real bad guys are the other survivors and their interactions after the break down of society that is supposed to happen. If Jack London had been born later he'd write zombie stories about man died because they were stupid but the dogs survived because of their natural instincts.
In an actual zombie apocalypse I think my list of threats would be:
1. Opportunistic bastards (thugs, gangs) 2. Desperate bastards (hungry, cold, afraid) 3. Devious bastards (poisoned, stabbed in sleep) 4. Survival skills (and fighting for the good spots) 5. Zombies
Which is the point of zombie movies and the media niche they fill. The conflict in them all is not Man versus Zombie, but Man versus Man. Zombies are nothing more than a natural disaster that can be shot in the face for greater action and the real drama is the survivor's interactions with each other.
Your warehouse might work, but a high rise tower would be a terrible position. You have to figure that the power grid would go down and emergency generators would soon be out of fuel, so no elevators. How many flights of stairs do you want to climb on a regular basis while carrying food, water and fuel?
Being in a tower with only a couple of escape routes also leaves you very vulnerable to human predators who will be looking to steal everything you have.
If I actually lived in such a place, I'd probably try to stay put during the mass exodus and the initial die-off, but I certainly wouldn't seek out a tall building as a permanent base of operations.
You don't send people out to find stuff to carry up. You just go up to the third floor or so, barricade the stairwells, and send people up to scavenge the upper floors for survival materials. Just make sure that the high rise has apartments, stores, restaurants, or something other than offices above you'll get sick of eating chocolate candies off of secretaries desks.
But again, as a group of True Believers who doesn't accept the potential to lose as a real possibility, that change may not happen.
It's worse than that, according to their beliefs, they must lose, everybody having been killed except for a small group, before Jesus returns to grant them victory.
A scietifically-minded species such as ours should have been sufficiently intelligent to create a more efficient spelling system than this. Let's just hope that future generations seize the opportunity to get rid of this ancient and inefficient spelling rule.
Counter point to that feeling is that the language and people using it benefit far more by being able to adopt foreign words than they would be by using standardized spelling.
Although Wikipedia says they were in the workprint version. *shrug* I could be wrong. I saw it fifteen years ago.
It wasn't in the original test version that they showed in CA and TX, or that they (mistakenly?) sent to the Egyptian Theater in Seattle around 2001 for the midnight movie. There was no voice overs. I like the voice overs. I'm glad they're there and think it is a better movie for it, but they weren't in that original version (as well as some other scenes) and it did change the feeling of the film.
True enough. And if they didn't have money for treatment, then they won't have money for the ER visit. Since many for profit hospitals are downgrading their ERs to urgent care and shuffling ambulances to country hospitals, that means that those costs get paid by the taxpayers.
Leon puts his hand in freezing liquid without a problem.
Pris puts her hand in boiling water without a problem.
I always thought those were more to show that the replicants had more control over their human++ bodies, being able to bypass feeling pain, or inflict it on themselves voluntarily, like Roy Batty did with the nail.
They were to show the superior to human abilities, same as Zhora kicking and screaming on the ground after having been shot multiple times with a BFG. they punch through metal, they take great abuse, they are certainly portrayed as being superhuman in their abilities.
And, unless they somehow account for how Deckard the replicant has grown old ... I just don't see how they get there at all.
"'More human than human' is our motto. Here we have replicants that are so human they think they are human. Most, even with programming, come to realize what they really are. These are not as powerful as the Nexus 6 which allows for a longer life span, and they even age. Our goal is to eventually build them so their internal mechanics will allow them to self replicate. Imagine that. Replicants that are self replicating and believing they are human, perform any function that we might require a human to do but without as much discontent because we can program and control their moods, beliefs, and desires so much more than that of a human."
Strongly disagree.
The relationship between Deckard and Rachel works better if he is human. The idea of a human Blade Runner coming to love what he was trained to destroy is tragic and redemptive.
Ya, right. Watch the original test viewing version sometime. It becomes obvious that Deckard is just a lonely, selfish man who finds himself with a woman that has to side with him because her life is at stake. Complete with near rape scene where he corners her and makes her say she loves him because to do otherwise would most certainly mean her death. There was certainly a reason they added the narration to what was the theatrical version, and that's because the original version was a little too dark and noir. It's softened by the narration, but he's still running off with a woman that supposedly fell in love with him in a few hours?
My personal take and theory which is not really backed up by anything but my personal head canon, is that he is a replicant. The entire thing was pretty much a set up to get the two of them together. "'More human than human' is our motto." Why bother with colonists when they could use replicants without such a short lifespan who think they are colonists? Perhaps they could even breed. This comes from a couple of things. One being that, Deckard looks a lot like Holden. So much that in the first viewing, I was afraid they had already killed harrison Ford's character in the opening scene. Roy does call Deckard by name even though they had never met before. The only place he might have found Deckard's name would be in Tyrell's suite. Deckard also does pretty when when getting punched by Leon. He loses a tooth, but that wouldn't be unusual for getting hit by a big guy, let alone one who can punch through metal. There is certainly a case that Deckard is more durable than a normal human.
And that's kind of the problem ... Blade Runner would be a terrible movie to a kid.
I don't know. I was 12 and seeing it only because Harrison Ford/Han Solo was in it. From the opening scene of fireballs and giant buildings in a small city to the death of Roy, the movie blew me away. I was expecting something like Star Wars but this was new, different; perspective changing. Perhaps one of the reasons I like the narration in the theatrical version. The setting and scene was a stark contrast to the clean futures of science fiction that were almost always portrayed, but once the narrations started, I knew enough of the hardboiled detective stereotype that everything fell into place. What was old is new again. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and today's fancy neighborhoods are tomorrow's slums. It was one of those things that as a kid opened my mind to new ideas.
That being said, the other film we could have seen was Megaforce with Chuck Norris (which I had already seen and thought stupid). My friend really didn't get Bladerunner and didn't understand and afterwards stated he thought he would have rather seen Megaforce. Unfortuantely, I had to agree with him, he would have enjoyed Megaforce much more than Bladerunner.
"the space is at 100% of its capacity to hold matter" You can say that, but that doesn't make it so.
OK, Einstein. You win. You've conclusively proven that there is indeed nothing limiting how fast a black hole can grow, and you can now collect your Nobel Prize in physics.
Nope. They need to show their math first. Until they come up with the math, then they need to apply for the Nobel Prize in philosophy, not physics.
Yeah, I was just talking to an Italian girl who broke her wrist in the U.S. An American hospital charged her $1,000 for an x-ray that would have cost $20 in Italy.
Majority share of that is due to insurance companies currently. The way they mostly work these days is that the insurance company asks to see the hospitals Master Charge Record, the advertised prices of procedures, and then offers to pay pennies to the dollar based on it. Usually this is between 33-66%. They can do this because hospitals need to be able to accept those insurances or they don't get customers. So, whatever you see on the hospital bill, is actually two to three times what the hospital actually requires and actually gets for any procedure as any self payers are usually non-payers, so the only real source of revenue for hospitals is from insurance.
Then, since US hospitals are in direct competition with each other, they can't just have any old equipment. They need a newer and better x-ray machine than the other hospitals to convince doctors to send their patients to them. They also need newer and better rooms and care for so that the patients will have a good opinion of the hospital and go back. Hospitals are a service industry in the USA.
On top of all that, most hospital departments lose money. The usual big ones that bring in the money and pay for the rest of the hospital are surgery, pharmacy, and radiology because those are the big ticket items that usually aren't performed unless the money is there upfront.
That an X-ray is $20 in Italy, tells me that they are either using old equipment, lightly trained staff, or get significant subsidy from someplace like the government. The cost difference isn't that much between the euro and dollar and an X-ray is going to require attention of at least a doctor and probably an x-ray tech and a doctor, the cost of the machine, PACS system, dictation, RIS and EMR plus support contracts, the property of the hospital it takes up itself, plus all the support staff that come with it. Now it could be that she could end up in some country doctor's house with a broken foot and they pulled out their portable DR machine from a closet and x-rayed her foot on the kitchen table and they did all the paperwork themselves that night. I've heard stories of similar things happening to people I know in Europe without any report of lack of quality, as yes, things are different in Europe to the point that people in the US have a hard time imagining them.
It's like telling police officers you smoke weed.
I'm in Seattle. So long as you didn't blow the smoke in their face, the police would just shrug. If they were the police patrolling Hempfest, they'd hand you a bag of chips.
You open them in hex editor and they look like complete mush. Now what?
I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head.
You Space Nutters are seriously mentally ill. You *CAN* LIVE in Thailand! You CAN'T on Mars!
Why is this BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS fact not registering in your tiny Space Nutter brain!!!!!?????
Well, when it gets down to it, you CAN GET to Thailand. They CAN'T TRAVEL to Mars. There's a 100% chance of survival through Mars One Program because nobody is actually going to go anywhere. But, if they are going to play at having the tech to get four people and a long term space habitat into space, on its way to Mars, and able to land reliably, then playing at having the needed tech to let them live there till they die of old age is relatively trivial. Of course, for that matter, the tech to get them back to Earth would be even more trivial.
The end result however is that TV is dying. People are increasingly just reading the net, and at most maybe keeping up with a few well made cable series. The short term pursuit of profits have killed TV in the long term.
Actually, I think we're heading into a new golden age of TV. Besides actual airtime on TV, there are now plenty of outlets for the same shows on demand. There seems to be an endless supply of new series coming out that are actually well done that people are watching. Steaming, recording, and on demand seem to be the future and it is TV that is happily supplying the content.
You can always have them officially ship it to your home address, but put a "hold for pickup at UPS/FedEx location" instruction on it. Then you just grab it before/after work, or over lunch hour.
More like grab it after taking half a day off work IME. Drive across town to the airport. Find their warehouse. Figure out which door goes to the office you're supposed to pick the package up at. Then stand in line for an hour before even talking to a person.Then wait for then to see if they can actually find your package.
I'll certainly tell you what my frequent medicinal user friends tell me. So it's you, an internet unknown, versus people I interact with all the time and have known for years if not decades. For everybody else reading, they can decide for themselves.
Yeah, there's a difference between driving after a drink with dinner and driving drunk, just like there's a difference between driving high and driving stoned. Only an idiot would drive stoned, though I'm not quite sure how they'd find their keys... or car, for that matter... or how they'd get off the couch in the first place.
It's a matter of what they are used to and what they have trained themselves too. Sure, I can't even think about getting off the couch to go to bed when I get stoned, but my smoking experiences are countable on one hand. Friends, who do it habitually, have different routines and explain it as a matter of training themselves. Some smoke and just play games, sometimes complex and twitchy games, but they are focused on the game at the right level of zoning out everything else. Others will toke up before doing lots of repetative work and just be content with doing the same thing over and over and over. It's all a matter of being familiar and having trained themselves to do it. I've even known woodworkers that will toke up and work while high. Sure they're working with dangerous machinery, but if they know their safety routines, they are quite happy to slowly go through all the various steps to maintain safety where most people that get hurt get in a hurry and skip some of those steps.
These people aren't going to die of old age or related causes.
Yes they will, because there is no realistic way they are doing anything but participating in a PR stunt. While engaging in such a fantasy as that they will ever see a space space ship built, they might as well say they will also form a self-sustaining colony on Mars at the same time.