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To demonstrate how mind boggling huge space actually is.
I like the demo where the guy puts a pea for the sun on the ground, a tiny dot for Earth and then drives out of state to put down a radish seed to display Proxima Centauri to scale. It shows those trillions of kilometers nicely.
Modern propane tanks are too well designed to be unsafe.
People like in the picture are the reason for that
Best comment ever was “It used to work like this but person at client demanded it work like that on this date” when the client complained it shouldn’t work like that.
Robots figuring out that without humans releasing gas their job is a lot more efficient could cause a few problems.
First USA privatizes the army. Then China offers to pay triple if the private army turns against the USA and Xi calmly claims the White House.
I’ll only call you doctor when you call me engineer. It’s a protected title too.
Not to mention the sun setting and rising, timezones, the sun being visible for six months from north and south pole, lunar and solar eclipses that can only be explained with pretzel like reasoning and so on.
Last I heard this was because of overpopulation, making hunting more difficult.
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You have the mad max dystopia, the star trek utopia, and humanity is doomed to forever waddle in the middle between these two opposites. “Kinda sucks” indeed.
Hey, you can actually buy flying cars. They’re at least 10x as expensive as a regular car so not affordable to buy for anyone, need a pilot license and usually a short runway. In other words, flying cars turned out to be just as crappy as artificial intelligence.
The argument David Kipling made seems reasonable. Statistically the chance if there being almost no civilisations or the universe just teeming with life are the biggest. The parameters have to be tweaked just right for there being just a few civilizations in a galaxy. It’s not teeming with signals and chances of parameters being just right is low, so most probable is we being alone.
I know of one, PAL-V, that is a flying car that is street legal and can be ordered right now. It’s 500 grand and needs a pilot license. Those flying cars are not for the poor.
That’s Putin’s doing. His bluff was strong and he had a big pile of material, so the West is using a Russia technique known as the salami slice method, by slowly escalating and gauging the reaction from Putin. It means no world war 3 scenario, no allies that have to come to his defense and also not letting Putin taking whatever he wants with just bluff and threatening speeches. It is costly in lives and material though.
They’ll give it all the social interaction and wisdom scraped from YouTube clips.
For even more fun, add in the children of Gaza wanting to escalate upward in the same way as Israel did and Iran becoming a nuclear power. If those two things ever combine things can get very ugly.
You don’t want to stop a war of your job and status depend on that war continuing
Usually people will work less hard to save some energy for that extra day of work they have to do.
Seems more general an issue with wealth distribution