Crossed wire or crossed communication. I don't think my comment was even in reply to yours - certainly wasn't meant to be.. I was just talking about the standard SF use of asteroid fields where the field is a maze of closely tumbling rocks. Its not just bad authors that have used it but many good ones as well. BTW small objects like dust might be attracted to your hull but electrostatic forces are like to dominate as the gravity involved with small objects like spacecraft is ridiculously tiny.. Relative orbital velocity for objects around small asteroids can be human walking pace or slower..
You don't seem to understand the basic rule about space - space is big.. The real problem with the whole asteroid field thing is that even if you fly through a dense asteroid field the average distance between the asteroids will be thousands of kilometres. The only way normally to meet two asteroids together is if one of them is in orbit about the other - and even then such orbits are usually very delicate and impermanent. The one exception to this are the rings around some gas giants, like Saturn. An extremely limited and relatively tiny space - and even then the fields are not as dense say as they appear in Star Wars or in most sci-fi I have read....
It definitely doesn't look like radiation causing the dots. Looks like a diffraction laser grid. Radiation affecting cameras tends to look like coloured static covering the whole display - plus maybe vertical noise bars, picture tearing or distortion, or in video recordings picture breakup and instability..
Consciousness is a dynamic synthesis of a totality information matrix based on the brains neural network, a type of universal machine or Turing Machine. Since the brain at its atomic scale foundation is an ordered quantum machine you are both actually right.. The quantum woo does not make building a working strong AI impossible, but it is a very hard problem. - I know because I've been working on building one since 1990..
Great point. This always annoys me intensely, its like they don't even understand basic celestial mechanics. Unless its a huge red giant the only way to get into a sun usually is to fly there deliberately. Even then you have to be pretty accurate or you just end up missing the star itself and in a low but extremely elliptic and unstable orbit. (probably still very lethal)
Also with current tech wherever solar or wind dominate they need those diesel or oil power backups for the night time or the times when the wind doesn't blow. Even with full battery backup solar still requires at least about 2x its nominal output capacity to reach a stable 24 hrs supply. Wind is much more unpredictable and much much worse than solar, way beyond the capacities of batteries.. Wind is the oil industries secret weapon to stay in business for the next 100 years..
The problem there is that the numbers are so huge.. With no further climate change at all climate is already set to kill between about 1 to 3 billion people in the next 100 years, in the worst case scenario that rises to 3 to 5 billion - or more. Maybe the death penalty is a bit strong today, but the majority of the world already have their fingers pointed firmly at the USA and the West on this.. so if real climate change does kill a lot of people then we will all be taking a lot of collective heat. Some of the worst case scenarios for climate change involve widespread food web collapse. - To survive a full scale event the most likely zero day solutions look a lot like Hitler's extermination camps but on a vastly bigger and global scale. An even uglier and -faster- zero day solution is to destroy 50 or 100 of the worlds biggest cities with nuclear weapons. When you compare climate change denial to that a death penalty doesn't look quite so extreme - but I have a far better solution, since most of them (generalisation) demonstrate the symptoms of severe mental illness they should all be assessed and put into mental asylums. The people who created the whole climate denial movement are different though, it turns out that they were already enemies of America and of humanity.. (the real NWO) and they only created climate change denial as yet another tool for manipulating and brainwashing the common people..
Yes but doesn't English do that all the time? Try '80 to 180 million', does it mean '80 to 180,000,000' or '80,000,000 to 180,000,000' ?? Causes me problems all the time.
What you say is absolutely right. The true solution to AI is artificial consciousness. 'Intelligence' 'knowledge' and 'symbolic logic' are all add ons that are emergent from consciousness.. I have worked on building a genuine Strong AI for over twenty years, and the real problem isn't the theory its building a working machine which unfortunately is incredibly difficult. Roger Penrose's seminal book (TENM) was one of the mayor starting points of my own work. The great joke is that core of the problem of machine consciousness was actually solved by Alan Turing and Jon Von Neumann and others in the 1930's and 40's. As for the 'spooky' part I cant really comment, but not for the reasons you might expect. Ultimately a totally reductionist analysis can lead to a final solution to this. The real problem with reductionism is that it doesn't always go in the direction that those who don't really understand it might want....
Hi. The real problem with both general and special relativity is that they both rely on the idea of time as dimension, which is generally incompatible with most FTL models. In my version time does not behave as a dimension at FTL speeds, instead time is point like giving a 3 Dimensional space time - so time travel is impossible. (In the FTL model 4D space time still exists at quantum scales, but becomes non-coherent at the quantum limit.)
There is certainly no hard proof for this version of the FTL but equally there is absolutely zero hard proof for the standard 4D space time version.. There are several pieces of indirect evidence for my FTL model, plus the FTL model unifies (a very slightly modified) general relativity with quantum mechanics and with classical physics, plus the FTL model is also at least an order of magnitude simpler than the standard relativistic model. The big negative for the FTL model is that its maths is non-continuous, and ‘ugly’, and has to map a number of infinite quantities. (I made the first step into the FTL while working on the maths of Strong AI on infinite non-finite sets and self-complete systems..) I have recently found a real experiment that just might be able to test the two models against each other. - The FTL model predicts that black holes should have a central massive singularity, while general relativity predicts that a black holes mass should be distributed.. This difference is theoretically detectable in the behaviour of objects in close orbit around black holes.
As for negative mass matter, obviously again there is no proof on whether it exists or not. However if my model is correct then negative mass matter is a pretty good candidate for dark matter. The basic predicted behaviour of negative mass matter is that it is tachyonic (FTL coherent) and so it shouldn't interact with ordinary matter - except through gravity. In this model tachyons can also travel slower than light because their internal geometry remains FTL coherent at all STL speeds..
You add a layer underneath tuned to complement the top layer. For instance in this case designed to help spread the inertia of the bullets kinetic energy across the material. There's a new gel material that apparently does exactly that - shock solidifies it and it momentarily becomes almost as hard as steel..
I've done real work on solving the FTL problem - about 50/50 solvable. - Solvability ultimately depends on the ability to capture or create then contain negative mass matter. The biggest brake on the whole thing is that general relativity the dominant theory in the field for the last 100 years is complete nonsense above the speed of light. - You can have two of the three - general relativity, black holes, conservation of momentum..
Well the law is crazy after all.. The self-medicating drugs that you are allowed to use are booze and fags (cigarettes). The WHO estimate puts cigarettes at killing a total of about 600 million people, and (I think) just less than a million Americans a year. Alcohol kills something like 30,000 to 60,000 Americans a year.
They only ban the safer drugs like LSD, MDNA, marijuana.. (excepting heroine and coke and PCP)
Where do you get this crap from, Fox? They are refugees because of Assad not ISIS. ISIS are bad, Assad is worse. Not helping them is an action of craven snivelling cowardice.
Oops I forgot climate change denial in that list.. They are a Fox hosted conspiracy anyway. - It would be scary if the CIA were working together with Fox against America..
He's actually a CIA stooge. Their basic tactic is to ridicule any criticism or conspiracy theory against them by weaving their own insane conspiracies.. - UFO's, alien abductions, 9/11 truthers, flat Earthers, moon landing hoax conspiracies, America guilty for all the worlds ills conspiracy.. Oops that last one was from the KGB, FSB, or their more current successors.. I think..
The CIA & NSA's real biggest evil was that they allowed Rupert Murdock to take over Americas media specifically Fox. This has allowed the erosion of peoples intelligence and the virtual destruction of public morals replaced with ultra right neo-nationalism.. Donald Trump vs Ben Carson - welcome to the future..
Ironically things like computers and tablets can be relatively resistant to EMP at least if isolated. Its stuff connected to the mains, or with long cable runs or aerials that is most vulnerable. Very high levels of EMP eg from nearby nuclear explosions are very difficult to stop, but even then a substantial Faraday cage can do a great deal. I'm half guessing here but with a multi-layer shield even very sensitive electronics should be virtually immune. The trick is making electronics systems that can keep running while inside EMP barriers, but even then the solutions are not that difficult.. Optical interfacing, motor generator power units, correctly designed isolation transformers. The really military side is radios that can keep working during EMP events.. Some types of pulse spark radios might be able to.. they generally only transmit at very low data rates and mostly I think use Morse code. They generate EMP noise themselves so are not really used anymore..
Not an exact one. It was in the Star Wars comic which ran for quite a few years. I think I can pin it down as being before about 1984, but it was a long time ago...
With modern chips, if you went say 4-bit and cut every corner you could I would think a single chip with 10 million plus cores would be possible. Not useful but possible.
Parallelising tasks is not hard? Here's a test I came up with to test human parallelism. - Try reading four books at once.. I mean lay them out in front of you and read all four simultaneously.. Its impossible, humans basically cant parallel process. What we can do semi-well is multi-task, which is the brain switching between one task and another - and even then if the tasks require intellectual effort we tend to get muddled and do things wrong..
Economically I crashed and burned. I would be technically classed as underclass - I am technically on a medical government benefit, about two or three tiers from the very bottom of the pile. That doesn't stop me understanding science or business, or wanting to fund and get my projects off the ground, it just makes it a little harder.. For the main project I am working on $10 to 20 million is the full start-up costs for the development part of the thing and to reach proof of concept. To go from there to full production is probably at least $1 billion. Some other projects I would like to work on could eat a $ billion or $ ten billion or more very easily. .
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Crossed wire or crossed communication. I don't think my comment was even in reply to yours - certainly wasn't meant to be.. I was just talking about the standard SF use of asteroid fields where the field is a maze of closely tumbling rocks. Its not just bad authors that have used it but many good ones as well. BTW small objects like dust might be attracted to your hull but electrostatic forces are like to dominate as the gravity involved with small objects like spacecraft is ridiculously tiny.. Relative orbital velocity for objects around small asteroids can be human walking pace or slower..
Exactly.. Gravity was super annoying..
You don't seem to understand the basic rule about space - space is big.. The real problem with the whole asteroid field thing is that even if you fly through a dense asteroid field the average distance between the asteroids will be thousands of kilometres. The only way normally to meet two asteroids together is if one of them is in orbit about the other - and even then such orbits are usually very delicate and impermanent.
The one exception to this are the rings around some gas giants, like Saturn. An extremely limited and relatively tiny space - and even then the fields are not as dense say as they appear in Star Wars or in most sci-fi I have read....
It definitely doesn't look like radiation causing the dots. Looks like a diffraction laser grid. Radiation affecting cameras tends to look like coloured static covering the whole display - plus maybe vertical noise bars, picture tearing or distortion, or in video recordings picture breakup and instability..
Consciousness is a dynamic synthesis of a totality information matrix based on the brains neural network, a type of universal machine or Turing Machine. Since the brain at its atomic scale foundation is an ordered quantum machine you are both actually right.. The quantum woo does not make building a working strong AI impossible, but it is a very hard problem. - I know because I've been working on building one since 1990..
Another answer is that maybe gravity waves are not real, but dark matter probably is..
Great point. This always annoys me intensely, its like they don't even understand basic celestial mechanics. Unless its a huge red giant the only way to get into a sun usually is to fly there deliberately. Even then you have to be pretty accurate or you just end up missing the star itself and in a low but extremely elliptic and unstable orbit. (probably still very lethal)
Also with current tech wherever solar or wind dominate they need those diesel or oil power backups for the night time or the times when the wind doesn't blow. Even with full battery backup solar still requires at least about 2x its nominal output capacity to reach a stable 24 hrs supply. Wind is much more unpredictable and much much worse than solar, way beyond the capacities of batteries.. Wind is the oil industries secret weapon to stay in business for the next 100 years..
The problem there is that the numbers are so huge.. With no further climate change at all climate is already set to kill between about 1 to 3 billion people in the next 100 years, in the worst case scenario that rises to 3 to 5 billion - or more. Maybe the death penalty is a bit strong today, but the majority of the world already have their fingers pointed firmly at the USA and the West on this .. so if real climate change does kill a lot of people then we will all be taking a lot of collective heat.
Some of the worst case scenarios for climate change involve widespread food web collapse. - To survive a full scale event the most likely zero day solutions look a lot like Hitler's extermination camps but on a vastly bigger and global scale. An even uglier and -faster- zero day solution is to destroy 50 or 100 of the worlds biggest cities with nuclear weapons.
When you compare climate change denial to that a death penalty doesn't look quite so extreme - but I have a far better solution, since most of them (generalisation) demonstrate the symptoms of severe mental illness they should all be assessed and put into mental asylums. The people who created the whole climate denial movement are different though, it turns out that they were already enemies of America and of humanity.. (the real NWO) and they only created climate change denial as yet another tool for manipulating and brainwashing the common people..
Yes but doesn't English do that all the time? Try '80 to 180 million', does it mean '80 to 180,000,000' or '80,000,000 to 180,000,000' ?? Causes me problems all the time.
That would explain most Hollywood movies. ..
What you say is absolutely right. The true solution to AI is artificial consciousness. 'Intelligence' 'knowledge' and 'symbolic logic' are all add ons that are emergent from consciousness.. I have worked on building a genuine Strong AI for over twenty years, and the real problem isn't the theory its building a working machine which unfortunately is incredibly difficult. Roger Penrose's seminal book (TENM) was one of the mayor starting points of my own work. The great joke is that core of the problem of machine consciousness was actually solved by Alan Turing and Jon Von Neumann and others in the 1930's and 40's.
As for the 'spooky' part I cant really comment, but not for the reasons you might expect. Ultimately a totally reductionist analysis can lead to a final solution to this. The real problem with reductionism is that it doesn't always go in the direction that those who don't really understand it might want....
Hi. The real problem with both general and special relativity is that they both rely on the idea of time as dimension, which is generally incompatible with most FTL models. In my version time does not behave as a dimension at FTL speeds, instead time is point like giving a 3 Dimensional space time - so time travel is impossible. (In the FTL model 4D space time still exists at quantum scales, but becomes non-coherent at the quantum limit.)
There is certainly no hard proof for this version of the FTL but equally there is absolutely zero hard proof for the standard 4D space time version.. There are several pieces of indirect evidence for my FTL model, plus the FTL model unifies (a very slightly modified) general relativity with quantum mechanics and with classical physics, plus the FTL model is also at least an order of magnitude simpler than the standard relativistic model. The big negative for the FTL model is that its maths is non-continuous, and ‘ugly’, and has to map a number of infinite quantities. (I made the first step into the FTL while working on the maths of Strong AI on infinite non-finite sets and self-complete systems..)
I have recently found a real experiment that just might be able to test the two models against each other. - The FTL model predicts that black holes should have a central massive singularity, while general relativity predicts that a black holes mass should be distributed.. This difference is theoretically detectable in the behaviour of objects in close orbit around black holes.
As for negative mass matter, obviously again there is no proof on whether it exists or not. However if my model is correct then negative mass matter is a pretty good candidate for dark matter. The basic predicted behaviour of negative mass matter is that it is tachyonic (FTL coherent) and so it shouldn't interact with ordinary matter - except through gravity. In this model tachyons can also travel slower than light because their internal geometry remains FTL coherent at all STL speeds..
You add a layer underneath tuned to complement the top layer. For instance in this case designed to help spread the inertia of the bullets kinetic energy across the material. There's a new gel material that apparently does exactly that - shock solidifies it and it momentarily becomes almost as hard as steel..
I've done real work on solving the FTL problem - about 50/50 solvable. - Solvability ultimately depends on the ability to capture or create then contain negative mass matter. The biggest brake on the whole thing is that general relativity the dominant theory in the field for the last 100 years is complete nonsense above the speed of light. - You can have two of the three - general relativity, black holes, conservation of momentum..
Well the law is crazy after all.. The self-medicating drugs that you are allowed to use are booze and fags (cigarettes). The WHO estimate puts cigarettes at killing a total of about 600 million people, and (I think) just less than a million Americans a year. Alcohol kills something like 30,000 to 60,000 Americans a year.
They only ban the safer drugs like LSD, MDNA, marijuana.. (excepting heroine and coke and PCP)
Where do you get this crap from, Fox? They are refugees because of Assad not ISIS. ISIS are bad, Assad is worse. Not helping them is an action of craven snivelling cowardice.
Oops I forgot climate change denial in that list.. They are a Fox hosted conspiracy anyway. - It would be scary if the CIA were working together with Fox against America..
He's actually a CIA stooge. Their basic tactic is to ridicule any criticism or conspiracy theory against them by weaving their own insane conspiracies.. - UFO's, alien abductions, 9/11 truthers, flat Earthers, moon landing hoax conspiracies, America guilty for all the worlds ills conspiracy.. Oops that last one was from the KGB, FSB, or their more current successors.. I think..
The CIA & NSA's real biggest evil was that they allowed Rupert Murdock to take over Americas media specifically Fox. This has allowed the erosion of peoples intelligence and the virtual destruction of public morals replaced with ultra right neo-nationalism.. Donald Trump vs Ben Carson - welcome to the future..
Ironically things like computers and tablets can be relatively resistant to EMP at least if isolated. Its stuff connected to the mains, or with long cable runs or aerials that is most vulnerable. Very high levels of EMP eg from nearby nuclear explosions are very difficult to stop, but even then a substantial Faraday cage can do a great deal. I'm half guessing here but with a multi-layer shield even very sensitive electronics should be virtually immune. The trick is making electronics systems that can keep running while inside EMP barriers, but even then the solutions are not that difficult.. Optical interfacing, motor generator power units, correctly designed isolation transformers.
The really military side is radios that can keep working during EMP events.. Some types of pulse spark radios might be able to.. they generally only transmit at very low data rates and mostly I think use Morse code. They generate EMP noise themselves so are not really used anymore..
The AC is probably a climate change denier..
Not an exact one. It was in the Star Wars comic which ran for quite a few years. I think I can pin it down as being before about 1984, but it was a long time ago...
With modern chips, if you went say 4-bit and cut every corner you could I would think a single chip with 10 million plus cores would be possible. Not useful but possible.
Parallelising tasks is not hard? Here's a test I came up with to test human parallelism. - Try reading four books at once.. I mean lay them out in front of you and read all four simultaneously.. Its impossible, humans basically cant parallel process. What we can do semi-well is multi-task, which is the brain switching between one task and another - and even then if the tasks require intellectual effort we tend to get muddled and do things wrong..
Economically I crashed and burned. I would be technically classed as underclass - I am technically on a medical government benefit, about two or three tiers from the very bottom of the pile. That doesn't stop me understanding science or business, or wanting to fund and get my projects off the ground, it just makes it a little harder..
For the main project I am working on $10 to 20 million is the full start-up costs for the development part of the thing and to reach proof of concept. To go from there to full production is probably at least $1 billion.
Some other projects I would like to work on could eat a $ billion or $ ten billion or more very easily. .