Doesn't change the fact that they are quite impossible. Interatomic bonds are simply not strong enough by many many orders of magnitude.

If your money is on solar etc.. then you really need your money in power storage. Either massive "cheap" batteries (liquid metal batteries) or something. Pump storage is not a solution to the general problem.

Thorium reactors give no real advantage over reprocessing U fuel cycles. It is the same waste. They are a long way off, even if you started today, and have a lot of critical design aspects that are completely untested and unproven.

Where do people come up with these numbers? its not 100k, not even close. With reprocessing it is like 100 years. Maybe 200 if your really paranoid.

No, it also has it own gravity and the suns gravity and the air pressure, also is not stable. Run the numbers. They are quite impossible. And really why would you want one. Lots of smaller traditional stations would work better anyway.

I would use a service like netflix in a heartbeat instead of torrents for the convenience factor. But in my area there is nothing on it. Also ISP here don't give a shit about torrents or american copyright trash. We have our own laws that make enforcing them pretty dam impossible.

As for morality. We are talking about TV shows and movies and other crap. Not feeding the world. Keep it in perspective.

You can call it whatever you want. I call it bittorrent. It works for all movies and tv shows almost the day they are released, it works on all my devices and in all countries. They are dinosaurs holding on to a dying system. The proof is as simple as pointing to iTunes. It is run my a hardware provider because the industry was too stupid to see the writing on the wall.

They are losing money plain and simple because they really believe they can make it work with a difference licence for different devices in different countries. It is *not* working and well the only real part of the company that is benefiting from all that legal work is the lawyers. I would love to use something like netflix with a few requirements. 1 High quality, you don't get genuine HD movie in 700MB so stop using comparable bitrates to that. 2 Timely releases, it is plain stupid that I need to wait 5 months for some shows to be available in the EU. We are on the internet. We have friends in the US, we know when it was out there. 3. everything should *not* be region restricted. Shit i spend quite a bit of time in difference countries. I don't want 10 accounts just because i spend time in 10 different places. Not to mention trying to switch accounts is a nightmare.

Not really, since organ failure is not the problem, at least for healthy people (I am). It is *everything* just winding down. Tissues just lose there ability to regenerate. A good example is bone tissue, as we all probably know people that are shrinking with age once old enough.

Occasional? Pilot error is by far the leading cause of crashes. Mechanics screwing up is probably 2nd.

There are in fact some schemes that copy a lot of bitcoin and get rid of the wasted work problem, there are a few proposals in the literature as well. These changes just plug in to a bitcoin like system.

If your an economist you don't like doing things without utility. Artificially restricting supply of something does not require that much wasted effort. Hell even the human working hours wasted on designing the ASIC miners would have been better used to do something else.

I am currently working in biology and mutations and stuff in particular. I am quite aware of the challenges, hence the comment on "some pretty fantastic breakthroughs", the next few decades because i am not getting any younger :D.

However from a purely information perspective, that is how good can we theoretically replicated cells etc, being effectively ageless is quite possible. Theoretically. (aka Shannon's information capacity of a noisy channel). But alas i doubt such deployments are going to be around while i am still alive to benefit.

Err no. It is like starting with a finished pizza and taking off a few toppings, then claiming you made a pizza from scratch. I do work in the field. This is nothing more than a "knockout" bacteria, where they started with a bacteria. It is not anyones definition of "from scratch". Even worse it was trial and error on what bits to keep, so it is still not even all that well understood.

I would love to have a system (like bitcoin) that worked properly, but for something to be a useful medium of exchange, it needs to have more price stability than bitcoin. It is hoarded and that just stops it being all that useful as a currency.

You can in fact design the whole thing in a way that doesn't use a shitload of electricity for absolutely no good reason.

I currently live in Switzerland. I thought it all came from the Nazis :D.



Boom Godwind! And i win internets for the day.