All the billions in the world can't make a trip to and staying on Mars even anywhere near "good life". Especially if the colonists can't rely on imports from Earth.
Maybe after a couple of hundred years, once the colonys infrastructure has expanded enough to allow for some luxury in addition to simple survival.
everything will have a custom made battery, that you have to replace regularly, and will only be available from the original supplier.
Replace? Are you kidding? The batteries of the future are, of course, not replaceable and booby trapped. When they run out, it's time to replace the device.
So puncturing the body with a foreign object can be called "needle-less" if the needle^H^H^H^H^H^Hforeign object remains in the body instead of being removed at the end of the procedure?
Um okay.
I don't know if I want to repeatedly shoot myself with micro-particles. Especially since injuries caused by injecting high-pressure gas under the skin aren't pretty.
If you freeze someones assets, how do you propose they retain legal representation to defend against the crimes they are charged with ?
There are always public defenders if you can't afford to pay a lawyer.
Unfortunately, "due process" only means that you may have a somewhat competent lawyer, and not the best lawyer you could have afforded if your assets weren't frozen.
If we manage to harness fusion power generation, bascially any spot in space could be made livable. If it turns out that the only fusion reactors that produce power start at a signficant fraction of a solar mass, even colonizing Mars will probably be out of the picture.
What other technological advances would we need? I can think of areas like manufacturing (how small can we make a "factory" that can act as the seed for the industrial infrastructury of a colony, i.e. it must be able to make copies of itself and manufacture useful stuff), molecular manufacturing (can we build a device that, given the description of a chemical, can assemble useful amounts of it from simpler molecules plus energy?), agriculture (can we come up with an ecosystem that's simple enough to work outside earth, but produces most of what the colonists need?), space propulsion, space launch technology (we need to come up with something better than chemical rockets at least for the first 100 miles of the trip), medicine (especially dealing with cancer, which will become a major problem when staying off Earth), etc.
However, you don't want to find out that you underestimated the crocodiles' food intake when you're surrounded by two dozen supposedly well-fed crocodiles.
I assume you could load a cartridge (12ga? 10ga?) with a net that is launched at a relatively low velocity. The rest is just a matter of target acquisition and tracking.
Non-STEM people just can't concentrate because they have the attention span of a gnat, that's why they call the thinkers autistic.
Concentration is usually task-related. Non-STEM people can usually concentrate just fine on tasks involving dealing with people. Autistic people can concentrate just fine on tasks that involve not dealing with other, especially Non-STEM, people.
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that is a villain logo. Oderint dum metuant.
It's the Roman Empire 2.0. Now with Internet.
It has no spine, is full of suckers, and is best when it's deep-fried.
Maybe after a couple of hundred years, once the colonys infrastructure has expanded enough to allow for some luxury in addition to simple survival.
Replace? Are you kidding? The batteries of the future are, of course, not replaceable and booby trapped. When they run out, it's time to replace the device.
Think "Dig Dug", not "small 1ccm syringe".
The little critters can draw (small amounts of) blood fairly painlessly, if it wasn't for the reaction to their saliva.
Right. But the jet of gas necessary to propel a droplet of water with enough force to pierce skin isn't. There's a name for resulting type of injury:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Um okay.
I don't know if I want to repeatedly shoot myself with micro-particles. Especially since injuries caused by injecting high-pressure gas under the skin aren't pretty.
There are always public defenders if you can't afford to pay a lawyer.
Unfortunately, "due process" only means that you may have a somewhat competent lawyer, and not the best lawyer you could have afforded if your assets weren't frozen.
It wasn't an apostle who supposedly said that, but the water-into-wine guy himself.
Except for those who can afford a chauffeur.
The attempt alone is pretty blasphemous, as the scripture says that only the head honcho knows, and no one else.
And the only hint we have is "soon", coming from a timeless entity whose perception of time might not necessarily corrsepond to ours.
My guess is that it happens around the time the universe has expanded enough to preclude the existence of atomic nuclei.
Reverse phrenology works. "You tell us the truth, or we'll make some bumps in your skull with this hammer."
You did read "A piece of wood", written by Ray Bradbury?
If they run out of guns and ammo, they'll just go back to killing medieval style - swords, spears, clubs.
What other technological advances would we need? I can think of areas like manufacturing (how small can we make a "factory" that can act as the seed for the industrial infrastructury of a colony, i.e. it must be able to make copies of itself and manufacture useful stuff), molecular manufacturing (can we build a device that, given the description of a chemical, can assemble useful amounts of it from simpler molecules plus energy?), agriculture (can we come up with an ecosystem that's simple enough to work outside earth, but produces most of what the colonists need?), space propulsion, space launch technology (we need to come up with something better than chemical rockets at least for the first 100 miles of the trip), medicine (especially dealing with cancer, which will become a major problem when staying off Earth), etc.
No matter how fast your plane is, there will always be a missile that is faster.
However, you don't want to find out that you underestimated the crocodiles' food intake when you're surrounded by two dozen supposedly well-fed crocodiles.
... it's all a matter of procuring a few tons of meat. Just make sure that all of the crocodiles are fed before entering the crocodile-infested area.
I assume you could load a cartridge (12ga? 10ga?) with a net that is launched at a relatively low velocity. The rest is just a matter of target acquisition and tracking.
Yes. It's enough if one in the group spots the hungry tiger, if the rest of the group the cooperates well enough to kill it.
Concentration is usually task-related. Non-STEM people can usually concentrate just fine on tasks involving dealing with people. Autistic people can concentrate just fine on tasks that involve not dealing with other, especially Non-STEM, people.
Someone actually did a a study to scientifically confirm what mountains of anectodes strongly suggested? Impressive.
Please elaborate on how to break a simple XOR-OTP. Bonus points if you can prove that your decrypted text actually matches the plaintext.
The ignorance can be temporary, caused by simple things like lack of caffeine or lack of sleep.