Whenever an animal is looking at you they are saying to themselves "no, no, no, no omnipotent species staring right back at me, doesn't exist, figment of my imagination", just like we do. That's exactly what I didn't say.
If aliens exist in the galaxy, it would probably be smart as a species NOT to let your presence be known. If as a species you're still using radio waves- it is perhaps best to disguise those waves from being broadcast into space (if that's possible).
Indeed, this is probably on of the greatest achievements of the internet.
Oh, there almost certain are aliens somewhere in the universe. However, the chances to them being anywhere even vaguely close to Earth is practically nil, and even if they were,
That's right. If they were already here for 10's maybe of hundreds of thousands of years we would know. I mean it would be just like if we were hiding in the bush observing wild animals. We would know that a species 10,'s of thousands of years ahead of us would not be able to hide from us, there would be strange signs everywhere. We would know.
Besides, our governments would tell us immediately that aliens were here and give up the power they have over us. Plus the elite would want to give up their positions of power over us so that we could all live together in peace, hold hands and sing kom-by-yah. Personally, I'd spent more time on the beach. I'd probably keep coding if I could. I wonder what sort of computers aliens would have?
if they are smart enough to overcome the incredible vastness of interstellar space...they are smart enough to not come here.
For sure. Earth would be the top selling reality TV show amongst the races in the galaxy. Imagine the cheesy announcer voice saying ToNight On EAAAARRRRRTTTTTHHHHHHH..... Watch these crazy primates choose between two equally crazy candidates to control the.largest.super.power.ever (they think). The insanity of these barley evolved chimps with powers over the atom to destroy.E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. is palpitation inducing. WILL THEY EVER LEARN???
So yes, SETI in it's current form is mostly a waste.
It is unknowable. Even if Aliens wanted us to know, our governments have a pretty large dragnet of technology to control us with. None of us plebs walking around our cities and towns know anything more than we've been told and most of us are too apathetic and insular to even look up from our phones to whatever truth is supposedly out there. Maybe this is all we're evolved enough to handle and we'd be dangerous with anything more powerful than what we have.
But hey, may as well laugh at the absurdity of it all:)
Everybody *knows* that with absolute certainty and no doubt at all so we should close down SETI because we all know it serves no purpose and never will.
it is. I mean that. Especially if you live in a cheap apartment with a crappy kitchen.
It sounds more like your kitchen sucks. Can you buy a kettle or a second plug in burner? What about an electric frypan? or a pizza cooker, a second microwave? A vegetable steamer, a slow cooker? A press grill? You've got some options.
I do, and I cook most of my meals and it sucks. Your stove takes forever to heat up. Your burners don't heat evenly so you have to set them and let the pans hit for 10-15 minutes or your food cooks unevenly. The stove never stays level either. Your microwave is cheap and your fridge small. Your freezer smaller
It's a shame to hear, I truly find cooking to be one of the great joys in life. It de-stresses you and you can crank up some music while you do it. A crappy kitchen does make it hard but not impossible.
I'm guessing you live in a city and space is a premium. Setting up a good kitchen is the heart of anywhere you live. I set mine up in a triangle (fridge, bench, stove). Can you find another place? Decent food is so important to your well being.
If I make a meal of eggs, potatoes & some pancakes from scratch (minus the pancake mix, which is pre made) I need to plan on a little over an hour.
Not good, it does sound like a crap kitchen. I hope you don't mind a little tip. If it's cold where you are it's pretty easy to chop vegies up in a bag (or pre-chopped) grab a handful out of the bag, boil water in the kettle while you are cooking some meat on the hotplate, a few spices soy and in 10 minutes you have a nice soup that is really healthy. The randomness makes it different all the time.
In 10 minutes I cook a 600gm steak, a pot of vegies (corn, brocolli, bean and mushrooms) and enjoy that with a beer. Same amount of time for a stir fry that I just ate for dinner. In an hour I cook for a week (bolognese, spicy mince, pumpkin or other soup) and then freeze it so when I come home it's 10 minutes until I have a good healthy dinner. In every case I can I try to ensure a healthy meal takes 10 minutes to prepare by planning in advance.
Do you have an oven? Use that in winter and cook a roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, carrots and pumpkin, soak the potatoes in water for an hour or two and they will be really crunchy when they're roasted. stab the leg of lamb and stuff anchovies and garlic into the holes. Also heats up the rooms. Leave the left-overs in the fridge, cut some off and nuke it when you want to eat some 2-5 minutes tops. or sandwiches.
Your kitchen may suck, but you can still buy decent pots and pans.
Then there's the cost of fresh food. If it's not on sale it's expensive. If it is on sale it's about to go bad. You can freeze meat, but vegetables & fruits don't freeze well (fruit it tolerable in smoothies but nothing else).
You can blanch the vegies before you freeze them and that will help.
Also you can cut up fruit and freeze that. Combine with milk, honey, raw egg, nutmeg, cinnamon in a blender and you have ice cold smoothie. In summer, this is better than dinner because it cools you down (especially in an apartment) and helps keep the kilos off. You'll also sleep deeper because your digestive system isn't working very hard.
Packaged dinners are a great buy because they keep for months. I can buy them when they're on sale, stock up and save.
Which is where you use the blanched or fresh vegies. Get a rice steamer, and while the packaged dinner heats chop up the vegies (beans, snow peas, mushrooms whatever) into one inch chunks, rinse them in the rice cooker add some spices and seal it. The packed dinner should be ready and then nuke the vegies - suddenly packaged dinner is not bad at all, 5 minutes.
Sorry, people. If you're basically trying to solve the problem by forcing the entities you know to stop gathering data that's publicly out there, you've lost already.
All of which could be resolved if the manufacturers of the phones allowed you admin access to, you know, the device you paid for.
The real story is how most citizens are voluntarily carrying unique radio beacons 24x7 these days.
I've been thinking about switching back to a non-smartphone. A linux based phone was a cool idea if I could have root access to the device I own so that I could control what it does but the problem with smartphones is the things the dumbusers want in it and that they're too dumb to even want to understand why.
Narcissism is appropriate in this context because it is impaired human intelligence. In other words narcissists are not fully functional human minds and they perceive people as objects. Which, from a programming perspective, is exactly how we would expect the code of the AI to interact with people.
Perhaps we should consider AI from the perspective of whats missing.
No, but we have enough fuel to last until the sun consumes the planet's atmosphere. Nuclear is therefore just as sustainable as wind.
BZZZZZZT! wrong. 5000 years *IF* you can use all of the existing stockpiles of pu-239 and DU. As soon as uranium extraction rates fall below 200gm per ton of ore it's all over for Nuclear and nothing will make it cost effective.
You don't understand why fundamental core components like reactor vessels, have a limited lifespan. You can't figure out how the energy return on energy invested relates to that and what impact the design means to make nuclear power a viable option.
I suggest that everyone can see that you just love to wrestle people down with inanity so they can see Nuclear Power in the same limited way you do with a naive expectation that everything will be ok if you just stay ignorant. It appears, in all your posts I've seen, that rational people will see you present a political opinion, rhetoric and a Nuclear Ideology based in fiction seen through the reality altering lens of the Nuclear Idealist you are.
None of your magical thinking is going to make Nuclear a viable option.
Look, I agree with the part where you said "Nuclear power is dead technology and we shouldn't waste our time with it" however everything else you said was wrong.
How would you get the nuclear power reactors to fuck?
I'm not even sure if they do. Maybe they reproduce asexually. Let's get two or three together in one place and see what happens. Shall we? If they fuck and make more then we just need to domesticate and breed them.
Wait, is that what they mean by "breeding reactors"?
Finally you've found an argument about nuclear power you can make. You can be a reactor breeder and watch them all you want.
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You think animals don't know humans exist?
Whenever an animal is looking at you they are saying to themselves "no, no, no, no omnipotent species staring right back at me, doesn't exist, figment of my imagination", just like we do. That's exactly what I didn't say.
If aliens exist in the galaxy, it would probably be smart as a species NOT to let your presence be known. If as a species you're still using radio waves- it is perhaps best to disguise those waves from being broadcast into space (if that's possible).
Indeed, this is probably on of the greatest achievements of the internet.
Oh, there almost certain are aliens somewhere in the universe. However, the chances to them being anywhere even vaguely close to Earth is practically nil, and even if they were,
That's right. If they were already here for 10's maybe of hundreds of thousands of years we would know. I mean it would be just like if we were hiding in the bush observing wild animals. We would know that a species 10,'s of thousands of years ahead of us would not be able to hide from us, there would be strange signs everywhere. We would know.
Besides, our governments would tell us immediately that aliens were here and give up the power they have over us. Plus the elite would want to give up their positions of power over us so that we could all live together in peace, hold hands and sing kom-by-yah. Personally, I'd spent more time on the beach. I'd probably keep coding if I could. I wonder what sort of computers aliens would have?
if they are smart enough to overcome the incredible vastness of interstellar space...they are smart enough to not come here.
For sure. Earth would be the top selling reality TV show amongst the races in the galaxy. Imagine the cheesy announcer voice saying ToNight On EAAAARRRRRTTTTTHHHHHHH..... Watch these crazy primates choose between two equally crazy candidates to control the.largest.super.power.ever (they think). The insanity of these barley evolved chimps with powers over the atom to destroy .E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. is palpitation inducing. WILL THEY EVER LEARN???
So yes, SETI in it's current form is mostly a waste.
It is unknowable. Even if Aliens wanted us to know, our governments have a pretty large dragnet of technology to control us with. None of us plebs walking around our cities and towns know anything more than we've been told and most of us are too apathetic and insular to even look up from our phones to whatever truth is supposedly out there. Maybe this is all we're evolved enough to handle and we'd be dangerous with anything more powerful than what we have.
But hey, may as well laugh at the absurdity of it all :)
Everybody *knows* that with absolute certainty and no doubt at all so we should close down SETI because we all know it serves no purpose and never will.
it is. I mean that. Especially if you live in a cheap apartment with a crappy kitchen.
It sounds more like your kitchen sucks. Can you buy a kettle or a second plug in burner? What about an electric frypan? or a pizza cooker, a second microwave? A vegetable steamer, a slow cooker? A press grill? You've got some options.
I do, and I cook most of my meals and it sucks. Your stove takes forever to heat up. Your burners don't heat evenly so you have to set them and let the pans hit for 10-15 minutes or your food cooks unevenly. The stove never stays level either. Your microwave is cheap and your fridge small. Your freezer smaller
It's a shame to hear, I truly find cooking to be one of the great joys in life. It de-stresses you and you can crank up some music while you do it. A crappy kitchen does make it hard but not impossible.
I'm guessing you live in a city and space is a premium. Setting up a good kitchen is the heart of anywhere you live. I set mine up in a triangle (fridge, bench, stove). Can you find another place? Decent food is so important to your well being.
If I make a meal of eggs, potatoes & some pancakes from scratch (minus the pancake mix, which is pre made) I need to plan on a little over an hour.
Not good, it does sound like a crap kitchen. I hope you don't mind a little tip. If it's cold where you are it's pretty easy to chop vegies up in a bag (or pre-chopped) grab a handful out of the bag, boil water in the kettle while you are cooking some meat on the hotplate, a few spices soy and in 10 minutes you have a nice soup that is really healthy. The randomness makes it different all the time.
In 10 minutes I cook a 600gm steak, a pot of vegies (corn, brocolli, bean and mushrooms) and enjoy that with a beer. Same amount of time for a stir fry that I just ate for dinner. In an hour I cook for a week (bolognese, spicy mince, pumpkin or other soup) and then freeze it so when I come home it's 10 minutes until I have a good healthy dinner. In every case I can I try to ensure a healthy meal takes 10 minutes to prepare by planning in advance.
Do you have an oven? Use that in winter and cook a roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, carrots and pumpkin, soak the potatoes in water for an hour or two and they will be really crunchy when they're roasted. stab the leg of lamb and stuff anchovies and garlic into the holes. Also heats up the rooms. Leave the left-overs in the fridge, cut some off and nuke it when you want to eat some 2-5 minutes tops. or sandwiches. Your kitchen may suck, but you can still buy decent pots and pans.
Then there's the cost of fresh food. If it's not on sale it's expensive. If it is on sale it's about to go bad. You can freeze meat, but vegetables & fruits don't freeze well (fruit it tolerable in smoothies but nothing else).
You can blanch the vegies before you freeze them and that will help.
Also you can cut up fruit and freeze that. Combine with milk, honey, raw egg, nutmeg, cinnamon in a blender and you have ice cold smoothie. In summer, this is better than dinner because it cools you down (especially in an apartment) and helps keep the kilos off. You'll also sleep deeper because your digestive system isn't working very hard.
Packaged dinners are a great buy because they keep for months. I can buy them when they're on sale, stock up and save.
Which is where you use the blanched or fresh vegies. Get a rice steamer, and while the packaged dinner heats chop up the vegies (beans, snow peas, mushrooms whatever) into one inch chunks, rinse them in the rice cooker add some spices and seal it. The packed dinner should be ready and then nuke the vegies - suddenly packaged dinner is not bad at all, 5 minutes.
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Sorry, people. If you're basically trying to solve the problem by forcing the entities you know to stop gathering data that's publicly out there, you've lost already.
All of which could be resolved if the manufacturers of the phones allowed you admin access to, you know, the device you paid for.
The real story is how most citizens are voluntarily carrying unique radio beacons 24x7 these days.
I've been thinking about switching back to a non-smartphone. A linux based phone was a cool idea if I could have root access to the device I own so that I could control what it does but the problem with smartphones is the things the dumbusers want in it and that they're too dumb to even want to understand why.
Narcissism is appropriate in this context because it is impaired human intelligence. In other words narcissists are not fully functional human minds and they perceive people as objects. Which, from a programming perspective, is exactly how we would expect the code of the AI to interact with people.
Perhaps we should consider AI from the perspective of whats missing.
Do you think its corruption that makes it worse?
A.I has replaced crazy primates as the greatest threat from Earth
No, but we have enough fuel to last until the sun consumes the planet's atmosphere. Nuclear is therefore just as sustainable as wind.
BZZZZZZT! wrong. 5000 years *IF* you can use all of the existing stockpiles of pu-239 and DU. As soon as uranium extraction rates fall below 200gm per ton of ore it's all over for Nuclear and nothing will make it cost effective.
You don't understand why fundamental core components like reactor vessels, have a limited lifespan. You can't figure out how the energy return on energy invested relates to that and what impact the design means to make nuclear power a viable option.
I suggest that everyone can see that you just love to wrestle people down with inanity so they can see Nuclear Power in the same limited way you do with a naive expectation that everything will be ok if you just stay ignorant. It appears, in all your posts I've seen, that rational people will see you present a political opinion, rhetoric and a Nuclear Ideology based in fiction seen through the reality altering lens of the Nuclear Idealist you are.
None of your magical thinking is going to make Nuclear a viable option.
Because people tend to become nationalistic and say "look what happens in $COUNTRY" and continue by thinking "my country is better".
So are you saying your country is worse?
Look, I agree with the part where you said "Nuclear power is dead technology and we shouldn't waste our time with it" however everything else you said was wrong.
Nuclear is the way to go. There are risks, for sure, but they can be mitigated
Which risk would you mitigate first and how?
Pretty much all of them are mitigated by using reactors that were designed more recently than 50 years ago.
I'm going to guess that you do't know what the risks are.
How would you get the nuclear power reactors to fuck?
I'm not even sure if they do. Maybe they reproduce asexually. Let's get two or three together in one place and see what happens. Shall we? If they fuck and make more then we just need to domesticate and breed them.
Wait, is that what they mean by "breeding reactors"?
Finally you've found an argument about nuclear power you can make. You can be a reactor breeder and watch them all you want.
Which risk would you mitigate first and how?
I'd first mitigate the risk of the lights going out.
Obviously you are afraid of the dark.
I'd do that by building some fucking nuclear power reactors.
How would you get the nuclear power reactors to fuck?
Lots and lots of them. Big ones too.
Sound's like you are sexually frustrated and you want to watch nuclear reactors fucking.
Nuclear is the way to go. There are risks, for sure, but they can be mitigated
Which risk would you mitigate first and how?
Unless you want to go (far) into space.
At least until conjoiner drives come on line.
Not your grandfather's nuclear, TODAY'S nuclear.
Grandfather's waste is pretty bad. No one want's to be near grandfathers spent fuel, even Dad thinks it's toxic.
Name a country where this doesn't happen.
What do countries have to do with corruption and human nature? Criminal acts are criminal acts and prosecuting corruption would help.
Rip everyone off.
The device delivers an electric shock to employees who step out of line.
No. I live in cow country. Grass stocks are not sprayed. You're ignorant.
Cattle eat other things than grass. Alfalfa, corn, soybeans, ect...
When they are factory farmed, cardboard and bits of other cows...
Finally Decoded using this one weird trick.
I'm glad someone got the joke.