They could test all these technologies and models in real world conditions and cheaper by offering to pay all the selected municipalities taxes received from property taxes so constituents could save that money. Most people would be more than happy to not pay property taxes.
This also has the potential of leaving behind an infrastructure better than what the community currently has. A win-win-win scenario.
Or redirect it around. It's a long way off, but if lensing gets further along, the radiation could get redirected and a spacecraft could get nice and cozy without worries of overheating.
I live and work in the Seattle area and commute all year around except about 10 days in the winter when the conditions are too dangerous.
...consumption isn't all that low - I own an 800CC sport-bike, not a fuel efficient low CC commuter and have never got lower than 42mpg in the city.
... don't look forward to arriving all drenched at work - I drive in a climate that rains an average of 150 days a year. I wear full protective water proof gear like the 6 other guys I work with who ride every day and stay very dry and warm.
...feel safe surrounded by steel cage - Exactly the kind of responses made by the guzzling SUV drivers or big a$$ american cars that they feel safer with all that extra unnecessary metal and weight
...not practical to strap 2 kids, a wife - that's what the family car is for. Driving the family and extra passengers, not for commuting. I'm saving as much in gas over driving the family car to more than cover the payments (if I had them) and insurance on the motorcycle.
1) Development speed
2) High number of areas the language works well for
3) Low barrier to entry (ease to learn, expense and ease of setting up an initial dev environment to evaluate the language, community support...)
4) Available (cheap) Libraries
5) Industry Buzz
It seems absurd to think of the SETI program catching a stray comm signal of an ET race. The only time they'd catch one is if the other race happened to be within the same tech level as we are give or take 100 yrs of where we are today minus their distance from us. Otherwise the signal isn't here yet or already passed.
Considering the wasteful amounts of energy for broadcasting outward, combined with relying more on satellites, high frequencies that don't make it outside the atmosphere, and when we eventually wake up to planetary security concerns it's not hard to see that broadcasting sporadic signals into space won't continue much longer. When we eventually need to communicate with intra or inter planetary craft it will be with some type of more efficient, focused and secure means.
Even given our still primitive understanding of physics; laser, maser, or quantum entanglement (quasi-FTL) could be a few useful approaches that would not happen to be very detectable.
In addition, due to the size needed for the detector, a neutrino communication device could only make sense for communicating between planets. But still they would send a beam to the other planet which we could only detect if we were in the direct line of the beam..
Only by asking ourselves (the masses) that very question. He didn't just post it to his closest or wisest peers.
Maybe this was the answer Dr. Hawking already had.
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They could test all these technologies and models in real world conditions and cheaper by offering to pay all the selected municipalities taxes received from property taxes so constituents could save that money. Most people would be more than happy to not pay property taxes. This also has the potential of leaving behind an infrastructure better than what the community currently has. A win-win-win scenario.
Or redirect it around. It's a long way off, but if lensing gets further along, the radiation could get redirected and a spacecraft could get nice and cozy without worries of overheating.
...consumption isn't all that low - I own an 800CC sport-bike, not a fuel efficient low CC commuter and have never got lower than 42mpg in the city.
... don't look forward to arriving all drenched at work - I drive in a climate that rains an average of 150 days a year. I wear full protective water proof gear like the 6 other guys I work with who ride every day and stay very dry and warm.
...feel safe surrounded by steel cage - Exactly the kind of responses made by the guzzling SUV drivers or big a$$ american cars that they feel safer with all that extra unnecessary metal and weight
...not practical to strap 2 kids, a wife - that's what the family car is for. Driving the family and extra passengers, not for commuting. I'm saving as much in gas over driving the family car to more than cover the payments (if I had them) and insurance on the motorcycle.In no particular order:
1) Development speed
2) High number of areas the language works well for
3) Low barrier to entry (ease to learn, expense and ease of setting up an initial dev environment to evaluate the language, community support...)
4) Available (cheap) Libraries
5) Industry Buzz
Considering the wasteful amounts of energy for broadcasting outward, combined with relying more on satellites, high frequencies that don't make it outside the atmosphere, and when we eventually wake up to planetary security concerns it's not hard to see that broadcasting sporadic signals into space won't continue much longer. When we eventually need to communicate with intra or inter planetary craft it will be with some type of more efficient, focused and secure means.
Even given our still primitive understanding of physics; laser, maser, or quantum entanglement (quasi-FTL) could be a few useful approaches that would not happen to be very detectable.
In addition, due to the size needed for the detector, a neutrino communication device could only make sense for communicating between planets. But still they would send a beam to the other planet which we could only detect if we were in the direct line of the beam..
Only by asking ourselves (the masses) that very question. He didn't just post it to his closest or wisest peers. Maybe this was the answer Dr. Hawking already had.