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2021, at the opposite side of the planet.
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Banned for landscape design.
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I'm afraid that seriously speaking about 25 mln people of neolithic society, having no iron hoe, no iron shovel, no iron axe, no iron plough, no draft animals, no fertilizer (even cattle manure), but using just hands and wooden digging sticks, and even more, telling (wiki) about 1 hectare of crops feeding 20 humans at such level of agriculture (normally, currently, 1 ha / human to live, 1 ha / 10 humans to survive), on the continent, mostly consisting of stony highlands and swamps, is a pure propaganda nonsense. Hunters-gatherers ~ 0.1 human / km2. Steppe herding nomads ~ 1 .. 2 human / km2. Developed farmers ~ 100 human / km2. Thus, primitive agrarians with wooden digging sticks and no cattle ~1 human / km2 or so (much better than h-g, but worse than nomads). North America = 25 mln km2 South America = 18 mln km2 Let the Central be South, then both Americas are ~ 20 mln km2. NA, mostly h-g = 20 * 0.1 ~ 2 mln (max) SA, 50:50 primitive agrarians and h-g = 10 * 1 + 10 * 0.1 ~= 11 mln (max) But as most parts of Americas are deserts, swamps, mountains, and snowy "Alas!"ka with Canada, this should be at least twice less. And as we can remember, the "South America" empires were in collapse before the Spaniards had arrived. This also means that the part of hunters-gatherers was higher So, NA <= 1 mln, SA <= 5 mln in the best case. Actually, this is even very optimistic estimate, as, say, all native Siberian peoples in total (except Yakuts, who came much later) are ~200 k humans in total, the Siberian knanate was won by a ~1 k army of Yermak with colleagues, the farther Siberian territory won by 1 .. 2 k army of Khabarov, Poyarkov, and others. No reason to presume that South Americans, being on almost same technological level as the Siberian peoples, just in warmer climate, would be significantly more numerous. Let's remember that the h-g population is highly volatile, as the natural food is highly unstable (~50% of cattle mortality every 7 years in a steppe, for example). So, the population matches the lower bound. So, 500 k of the N.Am. natives, and 1-2 mln of the S.Am. natives is a realistic number. *** Any empire is based on violence. The emperor has an armed force which can devastate any rioting region. Also, combat and civil weapons are different. What a force can it be, when there is no way to concentrate resources gathered from peasants working with wooden sticks, with no animals and carriages? What's the difference between two men protected with feather coats and armed with wooden clubs? What can provide superiority of 100 Emperors's men above a thousand of same rioting men? No mounts, no armor, no knight weapon. So, a hundred of the Spaniards in steel armor and with steel swords are a pack of terminators, being compared to any local Amerindian army (because the natives wouldn't be able to concentrate more than several hundreds per battle), and the empires are just armchair phantoms. *** Also, why should the Indians be mysteriously afraid of horses? A horse is just a big llama and much smaller than a bison.
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Banned for voluntarism.
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From other stars, or not, the humans should develop a greeting protocol. Starting from bread with salt and garlic given on a silver plate, polished like mirror. Just in case. Also a cat to look at them first. We should never ignore the warnings of Lovecraft. Who knows, what lives on the stars, what is coming from them. Most probably, nothing good for a human. The stars are deadly.
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Coal mine... 200 mln year old warships... Still need a real trireme. No problem with longship boats or the Mediterranean unireme/monere. https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/boatyard/experimental-archaeological-research/ship-reconstruction https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/search?tx_indexedsearch_pi2[action]=search&tx_indexedsearch_pi2[controller]=Search&cHash=d55936cc42d54e315bba3c24832a9c64 What about wooden planks with bronze tools for multistorey ships?
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Granted. You have the pie chart of good beef. I wish to ninja @TwoCalories fourth time this day.
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AI Will Never Be Sentient... Cyborgs On The Other Hand...
kerbiloid replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Such advanced network adaptor, to provide you with virtual workspace in the remote terminal mode. The application server is somewhere there... Sometimes a shared channel leaks. They call it telepathy. *** Thinking is an internal dialog with yourself, a kind of split personality. Once the neocortex had grown too big for a monkey, the human has two (or more) conjoined-twins monkeys in his head, endlessly talking to each other. Every human is a monkey pack inside. Sometimes the monkeys start fighting and crying at each other. They call it chimpzoschizophrenia. The speech center has evolved from the fine motorics center. Because monkeys normally don't speak, they scream and make gestures. The human makes gestures with tongue, because talking to yourself with fingers is hard, as they are busy. Also, that's why people like to think loudly. They are arguing to the opposite inner monkey. *** And yes, I believe, the writing has evolved from obscene monkey gestures. Even before the speech. Because they don't need gestures to take or give a banana, only to show something insulting. -
Active holographic camouflage. Make you saucer have wings and be milk-white. Or mouse-gray. Depending on sky.
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Catch the mug! Watch your back! Let the battle begin! Human! Fifty milliliters of the ethanol 40% solution.
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Banned for illiteracy propaganda.
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Granted. Recursion happened. You are buried under the hill of self-reproducing wands. I wish the hill was wanderful.
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Yes, we have a special brother to cook it. Twitender! A twit of Xwiskey.
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totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
kerbiloid replied to Ultimate Steve's topic in The Lounge
Does it explain, what the very word "German" means ("germanus" = "brotherly, congenerous" in Latin), and why are some "Germans" "Franks" ("free" in Latin)? Ancient Roman were kissing smelly Northern barbarians and were proud of some of them being uncontrollable? Any German tribe calling themselves Germans? Franks? -
No high-tech weapon = big crowd wins. Yes high-tech weapon = big weapon wins. Urban high-tech = low fertility, smaller crowd. Nukes are just a kind of high-tech, The aim is to survive. Including the fear of taking the winner together with you in case of defeat, Big world, few people, developed industry. The problem is, who's the few. If there is only one well in the desert, then only one of the families of good people can drink. Rutherford was laughing at those, who were talking about the military nuke possibility. He said that the nuclear physics is a toy for scientists, nothing more. As we can see, the idea of a nuclear weapon had appeared when the nuclear physics was a toy for scientists, nothing more. Also, we should remember the ingenious fiction writer of all times and peoples, H.G.Wells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_in_the_Air Just chems, rather than nukes. When the nanites have made the nukes useless. Not sure, what's worse. We do it for you. Very early ones. More late and accurate ones are first of all to destroy hard objects, and tend to have lower yield. Because they don't have money to take.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
kerbiloid replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The Sun composition is: 92.1% of H, 7.9% of He, 0.1% of other junk. So, if vent out all that hydrohelium, the solid rest of its mass will be ~2*1027 kg ~= 330 earthes. If in a first approximation take the junk composition equal to the Earth matter, it will be a Superearth about 6 times larger than the Earth in size. *** But as the solar matter is ionized, there can be now chemical compounds or crystallic structures. So, the intrasolar junkball shhould be gaseous (plasmatic, doesn't matter). Thus, the elements should be distributed proportionally to their atomic mass. Even if not remove the hydrohelium. Doesn't it mean, that there should be a huge uranium ball at center of the Sun? *** The estimated amount of uranium in the Earth crust is 40..100 trln t (from different sources). Let's take 100 trln, as the core and the mantle have some, too. So, the solar uranium ball should be ~100 trln t. At normal density, it's ~5 000 km3. I.e. ~20 km in diameter. *** As we know, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine ~2 bln years ago, when threes and the concentration of 235 were higher, there was a natural reactor. The solar junkball should be full of carbon and hydrogen (i.e. moderators), and surrounded by thick layer of hydrogen, i.e. the natural moderator-reflector. The junkball mass is a natural tamper, inertially withstanding the uranium fission pressure. *** As 4 bln years ago the 235 concentration was ~20%,, which is HEU, with critical mass less than 1 t, shouldn't be the beginning of the Sun existence a one big fission badaboom? -
The melody is not chaotic, that's the key. What one man can whistle, that another man can suddenly repeat.
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What' the problem? There is no water on Venus.
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If continuously transmit simple melodies (whistle with lips or drum with fingers), then sooner or later some melody will match the aliens': door lock, parked car alarm, launch code of a planet-killer missile, or so,
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Idk, cuz they promise it's okay. Btw, if AI can emulate human personalities, running them as applications, digital compression methods would be very effective, as 95% of humans are interchangeable.
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RV = Recreational Vehicle. A doomsday vehicle with everything required to re-create the life on the Earth, and everything what's needed.
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AI Will Never Be Sentient... Cyborgs On The Other Hand...
kerbiloid replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Before the shipping, try a bridge. The thalamic bridge. https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/the-hogan-twins-share-a-brain-and-see-out-of-each-others-eyes Neuralink → ThalamiX (Btw, why still Neuralink rather than NeuralinX ?) *** A white mice genetic line, giving conjoined twins. Intermind electric activity. -
Shower. A bath with no curtain.