That aside, watching a mars rover live is like watching paint dry. Opportunity has a top speed of 0.18 km/h and on average it has moved 10 meters a day. It spent over 11 years on a marathon that runners on Earth do in two hours. Everything else it does is equally slow, it makes a sloth seem energetic. The reason is of course that it's running on a tiiiiiiiny trickle of power, but it doesn't make for great entertainment. It's like for example CERN, you get a huge splash when they find the Higgs boson but between that it's months and years between something newsworthy happening.

Well, maybe not the actual scientists but there are quite a few dead cultures and species wiped out because guns and bullets beats spears and claws. And I don't think anyone doubts Oppenheimer was a bright guy, even though he wasn't the one dropping the nukes. Since you mention cats, would you like an AI treating you like you treat the cats? My guess is you would not, particularly not when they decide we're too fickle and resource hungry and would rather not have cats.

The reason I'm not worried is because we have no clue on how to build systems with self-awareness. The software is running, but the computer can't look at itself in the mirror and realize I need electricity and CPUs and RAM sticks to "live". Wake me up when we have a computer that can actually refuse me from hitting the off switch.

Takes one to know one, huh?

As for trapped AI, you should all see Ex Machina, great movie.

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You'll pay for the whole spacesuit but you'll only use the pants! BE THERE (by telepresence) OR BE SQUARE. etc.

If that's the price of actually developing space industry to the point of having a Wal-Mart of outer space, so be it. Then I can buy me a space ship and fly... past the sky.

What? I don't even. How did you get modded up for equating global warming and a rape hoax? How many sockpuppets do you have?

No, it's something slashdot did, since I never had the scroll before and didn't change any settings.

Actually free movement is for work, and people coming to the UK can't get most benefits right away anyway. There are some, like access to some healthcare, but for example they can't just claim job seekers allowance or housing benefit from day one and without a job.

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Physical sciences and maths are both above 40% in the US.

I certainly hope we will be okay without oil in the long run... And with modern equipment logging is fairly safe now. That's not the point though.

You can't force people to do things. Women already want to be scientists.

Right... I make an argument based on facts, that's trolling. There needs to be a -1 MRA block meta-mod.

Go on, explain why my post is a troll. I dare you to try.

So your argument is "keep the women down so I don't have to compete"? Seriously?

What exactly is your argument? That because the law on child custody is broken women should be punished in other areas to make up for it?

Seriously, what is the point you are trying to make, or is it just a general complaint that adds nothing to the debate?

Yeah, it's surprising how people want to make things better, instead of just worse for everyone.

This MRA myth that it's about numbers needs to die. It's about access to the professions people want access to, regardless of gender. Thus the underlying assumption is that women aren't interested in science, which is demonstrably false.

How about no one has to mine coal or collect bottles to survive? I bet that blows your mind, huh?