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How big is this spaceship? Is it advertising its presence with some sort of radio signal? How fast is it approaching? Is it burning a rocket engine to slow down? If we happen to look in the right direction, we can see some really small stuff and it would likely glow in IR (hotter than background), but consider Chelyabinsk meteor. Even though it was big enough, and certainly close enough to detect, we failed to do so because it came crashing in from a direction where we did not expect an asteroid to come from. Not only that, but even if we wanted to look in that direction we would probably not have been able to, since it came from close to Sun (direction) and our instruments would basically be blinded by the Sun.

Not really a question, but here it goes anyway. You guys know about the Red Dwarf uncrop CSI shenanigans? Well, it's happening for real. That's some real wizardry.

Only if this immortality happens suddenly. If it happens gradually over multiple generations, then birth rates would drop and compensate, just the way we see happen in western world over the last 100 or so years. Why would anybody rush to have kids in their 20s when they can just as easily have them in their 2000s, by which time there is a better than even chance that they meet an untimely demise due to slipping in the shower and cracking their head open, or something. This site lists chances of death due to injury for various causes, with total chance of dying due to external causes over a lifetime to be 1 in 24, this brings the math to about 65% chance of dying due to injury over the period of 2000 years. I imagine murder rate would also go up, due to all the kids not wanting to wait eons for the inheritance.

You heard it here first, folks! sauce Anyway, that runout doesn't look too bad. Certainly better than I expected. What I don't understand is: Why? Drums of that size should be available as off the shelf parts.

I did read what you posted. By the time Russia make this thing work, Starship is likely to be operational. As for F9, it is a stepping stone until Starship/SH is ready. Once that is done and flying (and assuming they can hit the cost goal) F9 is going to get retired because there will be no sense in using it any more. As remarkable and industry leading as F9 is, it is going to become obsolete the moment SH becomes operational.

Making stuff is harder than you probably imagine. Making stuff cheaper than mass produced stuff is certainly not possible, unless you are willing to also go the mass production way, but (cost of that setup aside) what are you going to do with tens of thousands of toothbrushes you make each day? Sell them? I'd have thousand and one better things to waste my immortality on, than accounting. Hard pass. Making toothbrushes for my personal use? I can order a years' worth of them online and they come to my doorstep for less than the equivalent of my time's worth which would take me to walk to the shop down the street to buy them. Making them in a workshop I have, would take significantly longer and be more expensive, not to mention pose a health hazard. Making an automobile? Working alone, you'd probably crush your face in a 500 ton press before making the first door panel. Just because you don't die of old age, doesn't mean you can't get hit by a car, suicide because running the global toothbrush empire became so mind numbing, or chronic poisoning due to various unaccounted chemicals I unwittingly introduced to my home made toothbrushes.

Would this imply some quality and manufacturing issues, which they fix after scrub? If Superheavy/Starship can launch for $2M they are competitors, regardless of smaller mass to orbit capability. A customer will hire the cheapest/safest option, regardless of unused capacity.* *Well, not exactly competitors, since nobody would use the Russian thing anyway. Reflight in <1 hour, that's impressive, even in Elonverse. Just refueling that thing is a marvel of engineering.

So, T-1 year? I'll start sowing the corn. Should be ready to harvest and made to pop in time for another delay. Just kidding, don't crucify me. They should take their time and make sure it works.

Oh, I didn't realize that. Gravity affects only the rocket, not the asteroids or the stranded people.

The rescue counter doesn't increment. Or I'm running them over. Gravity seems a bit strong and quite selective. Otherwise, not bad. Keep at it.

You know, you could go back to the bookstore and get it. Wasn't it some sort of a big deal back then that they managed to get GRRM to tell them the ending so that they can film before the novels come out?

Please proceed to self-flagellate for roughly the duration of Princess bride. As for mayo or ketchup, what's this "or" thing you speak of? It's spelled "and".

Honestly, you have 7-9 cats too many.

That's way below industry standard. Usually it's single digit percentage that ends up going towards the stated goal.

https://www.amazon.com/byFormica-Ant-Products-Prevention-Climbing/dp/B00UJLH12A

I believe I've already mentioned this novel on these forums (quick check, yes I have), but here it comes again: Voyage from Yesteryear by James P. Hogan deals with post scarcity society where robots do everything needed for society to survive, while humans can focus on their talents. That is not the primary topic of the novel, so if you decide to read it don't be surprised (I recommend, regardless) but it has a nice scene where newcomers see abundance of stuff that is free to take and just go crazy taking much more than they need, drawing confused looks from original population. Meanwhile folks can focus on doing what they like, so one of them decided to be a carpenter and he builds beautiful and intricate wood cabins, even though utilitarian, robot built housing is plentiful and free. I wish we could live in such society.

On behalf of all Croatians, I apologize if he was trying to scam you. It may have been the case that he was genuine, albeit misguided. We do have three salt producing facilities in Croatia that use traditional methods (ie. put sea water in shallow pools and let the water evaporate), so he might have had those in mind. As for "organic", the only thing organic would be the seagull droppings, guaranteed to be well preserved in brine and salt, and safe for consumption. Have you never made an underground farm in Minecraft?

Of course it does. That's what companies are all about. That is their sole purpose. None of them are out there to give teddy bears and candy to kids, unless they can make a profit out of giving teddy bears and candy to kids. Even the so called "nonprofit organisations" are only growing flowers and planting trees using the scraps they are left over after they cover their expenses.

It's gonna be a while before robots can solve random problems they were not programmed to solve, but it's trivial for robots to outperform humans at countless tasks, when properly programmed. That would require what is called artificial general intelligence (or strong AI), and it's not something we're close to cracking. Compared to strong AI, weak AI is simple and we've been working on it for a number of years. An example would be a neural network that can come up with a solution that it was never specifically programmed to find, but is in a very narrow field, like a chess game. There are so many possible chess games that it is not practical (or even possible) to program the computer to know the best move in each possible position, but there are techniques where you can show the computer a bunch of different games, and it just figures it out by itself. Regarding industry, robots have been used in industrial settings for decades, because they are so much better at repetitive tasks. They are faster, stronger, more accurate, capable of working without breaks, and most importantly for industry, cheaper than humans. When they break down, you toss them aside and replace them with a new one. You don't need a humanoid robot for this. It would be way too expensive and unnecessarily complicated. In most cases a robotic arm with a couple of specific sensors and 6 degrees of motion is enough for a specific job. it would be a waste of resources to use a humanoid robot with all the joints and sensors a human has, if all you need is to transfer a box from one conveyor belt to another.

This article presents another aspect and source of dislike for GMO. https://qz.com/africa/1900035/the-lie-of-monsantos-genetically-modified-cotton-in-burkina-faso/amp/ tldr, Monsanto is not the most honest and transparent company out there.

My GPU might to be ready to push the daisies. I've had some issues with the monitor for a while, and usually a power cycle of the monitor would solve the issue, but today I was just watching some Youtube video and the screen went blank. Monitor power cycle did nothing. The sound kept coming, but keyboard controls did nothing. One hard power off later, the PC won't boot, just gives me some beeps (ASUS mobo, one long three short, "An anomaly is detected in the graphic card. If the graphic card needs an extra power supply, please ensure the power supply can provide enough wattage.") I doubt it's actually PSU since games that I'd expect to give the GPU a bit more workout than a 720p video work fine. Anyway, I shut down the PC unplug it and rip out the GPU, clean the dust a bit, clean some of the dust from the CPU cooler as well and retry. No cigar. Reopen the case, notice I forgot to plug in power to the GPU. Plug that in, but since I'm already here, I might as well reseat memory. Do that and try rebooting again. It works. I hate fixing PCs.

And when Blue Origin starts to show us some new stuff, they'll get our attention as well. Of course, once when orbital launches start happening multiple times per day, the novelty will wear off for most of us, but don't forget, there are still train/plane/ship spotters.

Or even worse, "Shame, you'd be good at it."

What annoys me even more than being asked if I play basketball, is that it would be considered rude to counter ask if they are jockeys. Double standards. I would like to know the line of reasoning behind the question, though. Oh look at that tall guy, he must be playing basketball! Do they think that playing basketball makes people taller? Or that being tall makes people automatically interested in running around just to throw a ball through an entirely too small and inconveniently placed hoop?