Agreed - but that said, there are space elevator alternatives, like the Lofstrom Loop / Launch Loop, which at least theoretically can be built with modern materials (and have far better properties anyway - not latitude-constrained, provides dV, vastly higher throughput, far more efficient, stores energy / can add cheap energy at off-peak times, etc). One could always "waste" money on them trying something new
What you call destruction of service jobs, I would call the introduction to the age of plenty, and the end of the age of scarcity. There shouldn't be an "upheaval", but I know there will be. The haves are too good at dividing the have nots for them to stop.
You debunked your own comment, there's nothing for me to do here
China disagrees.
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Or is there something I'm missing?
What you're missing, as usual, is that IT DOESN'T EXIST YET but you're claiming that it does, as usual.
The source code is written in assembly
FTFS, "it's the first version of UNIX in which the kernel and some of the core utilities were rewritten in the new C programming language"
Put this source code in front of 99.9% of the people here on Slashdot and they'd be able to do nothing with it.
Yes, this place really has gone to shit.
Some of the technologies that would enable space exploration could also help us with the goal of repairing our biosphere though.
Yes, but we could also develop the same technologies and then not spend the money going to space, and instead implement them here, and think about space exploration once we're sure we have a future.
Well, if power hungry people didn't mid perfectly reasonable posts down, simply because they disagree, nobody would have to post as AC.
People do it to me constantly (a day without a 3-5 comment serial downmod is unusual) and I don't have to post AC to keep my Karma in the excellent range.
The game alpha centauri is a lot more applicable here. However what you are talking about requires future technology. You would need self repairing machines for that. While this is arguably semi-feasible (design machines to be more modular and therefore serviceable by robots which could swap modules) they don't exist yet. And once they do we will be too busy dealing with the upheaval from the destruction of service jobs to think about colonizing other planets or moons.
"Time to switch to iPhone then and keep that AI cruft off the phone."
How would that help? You don't seem to have been keeping up with what apple is doing to your precious toy.
I wasn't expecting you to self own so quickly, obsessed cuck.
If you can tear yourself away from protecting child molesters long enough, why not touch grass?
I love all the quality conversations we get from AC posters.
Slashdot should never have allowed them to begin with, and failing that, should have eliminated anonymous posting many years ago. It was never a good idea. Naturally the cryptocucks think it's great.
Merchants that accept one kind of Visa credit card wouldn't have to accept all Visa credit cards, for example. Under the current talks, credit-card acceptance would be divided into several categories including rewards credit cards, credit cards with no rewards programs, and commercial cards
If it's not clear which cards will be taken where based on the logo, then those logos will be devalued. Whichever processor STOPS doing this first will win.
What makes you think that I am in any way "obsessed" by you
I'll bring this up again next time you ride on my dick.
I like it, but can we just skip to the end part?
My apologies again.
No, I'm the one who should apologize. I've been living in your head rent-free for years, how rude.
Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries
