Comment Re:Pleasant? (Score 2) 174
Blocky, pixellated sex, I imagine.
Kind of like the GIFs we downloaded from BBSes in the 1990s.
My safe word is "ZMODEM".
Blocky, pixellated sex, I imagine.
Kind of like the GIFs we downloaded from BBSes in the 1990s.
My safe word is "ZMODEM".
That assumes that all those environments are pointless wastes of space, unfortunately that premise isn't true- those areas of land serve important purpose for example the sands of the Sahara blow across the Atlantic and fertilise the likes of the Amazon rainforest.
A lot of people say "Why don't we geo-engineer the Sahara to make it tropical forest again!" but it becomes almost a zero-sum game, as you grow forests in Africa you decrease the fertilisation of the Amazon and so growth is stunted there in turn.
You're saying Saharan sand is good fertilizer? I wouldn't have though it was true, but if it is I have to wonder if it opens up an opportunity. We take sand from the Sahara to fertilize lands elsewhere - taking it all from one place to begin with. Once we've dug enough sand out to make an area below sea level, we can flood it with water from the Mediterranean Sea.
Benefits:
* More fertile land throughout the world
* A new sea where fish can grow.
* A way to slow or even reverse the rise of the oceans by putting the excess water in the new sea.
Am I crazy? Why?
We can debate if cities have higher crime or not. People in cities tend to live longer lives - at least in developed countries. So I am not sure what to make of your dirtier and dangerous point.
Go to a city and sniff. You can smell how dirty they are. I was in NY (Manhattan) a while back and the smell of trash was quite common even in areas that seemed to be quite nice and expensive.
Vast areas of Earth remain unpopulated. In no particular order:
Sure, some of the above would require some work to make comfortable, but it can be done even with today's technology — by 2100 even an individual (or a family) would convert surroundings to their tastes. And it would certainly be easier, than moving an appreciable quantity of people off-Earth...
I spent quite a bit of time in the American midwest. It is hardly unpopulated. And if it were any more populated than it already is, where would we get our food from?
Why would you think that they could not twist being treated like "normal" criminals as something special?
They can try and probably will. Think of it as attacking a heavily fortified bunker rather than open field; sure, it can be done, but it's a lot harder.
In the US, Muslim recruiting is prisons is very effective.
But this is only a problem if you buy Islamic State's claim of being a Caliphate and thus representing all Muslims. Otherwise we're just looking at criminals finding religion and straightening up, which is hardly a bad thing. And that again gets us into this being primarily a war between competing stories, rather than physical militaries.
Liars are gonna lie, nothing you do is going stop that.
Which is precisely why their story needs to be contradicted rather than confirmed at every turn.
Wars seldom end through peaceful negotiations. They end because one side completely and utterly destroys the other.
Well, no. A war most often ends in a negotiated truce. Otherwise most still-existing nations would have no lost ones in their history.
Then again, I can see you're working through some personal issues here, so I guess facts are of little importance. But perhaps you could choose some topic where you won't cause actual damage by venting?
I'm not sure if you should be modded Funny or Insightful.
With the UK likely going to pull out of the EU, anyway (one of the issues talked about by the Yes voters in Scotland is that the UK is leaning that way), I don't imagine the EU will be all that long-lived, regardless of how Scotland votes tonight and the consequences of that vote.
I would personally love to see them tell the queen to stick it, but unfortunately even if the Scottish vote to be independent of the UK, they'll still have a monarch.
Whether they eventually choose to ditch the old leech is an entirely different issue, though I personally hope they'll be emboldened by a Yes vote today and end up with a nice constitutional republic.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein