Max Tegmark had a good bead on this years ago. Read his 'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'. If we are not very diligent and lucky then we truly are fucked.

An excellent presentation of current fusion efforts is given in this site:

https://scitechdaily.com/tag/f...

The MIT group says that their modeling looks really good. If they are successful then it is a whole new world!

https://www.psfc.mit.edu/

It is likely that all of this bickering, whining, and consternation is moot. MIT has partnered with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop a Tokamak type reactor which is based upon new superconductors allowing extremely strong magnetic fields to exist in the reactor. This means that the size of the reactor can be reduced and the efficiency GREATLY increased. If they succeed, the world will have abundant non-polluting energy. The researchers say that their numbers are good. Should know results of the preliminary experiments this year. Good on them !!! And, to everyone else, "Chill Out"!

https://news.mit.edu/2020/phys...

https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc

Max Tegmark addresses this in his book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. A really good read!

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Actually, if you heavily zoom in, the spots on the pillars are distinct and sharp edged. Likely film defects. These appear elsewhere in the images. The spots in the sky appear fuzzy. The white spots on the parking lot lamps are raven poop, and they are fuzzy. Real white objects are not distinct.

Actually, the files are too big to attach. So, I put the photos in Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/drive... I hope this works.

Yes, AC. Back in the early 2000's my wife was at work and I was in the parking lot waiting for her to get off. I looked to the north and saw two white objects dancing around each other. Hard to guess a distance, but I would think maybe 3 or 4 miles away. I had one of the old disposable cameras in the car and I took 13 photos of the objects. A co-worker of my wife saw the objects, and she also photographed them. I scanned my photos at 600 dpi, and I would be glad to attach them to an email if you can post an address.

I am reading Homo Deus. The author spent an entire chapter describing the deplorable conditions to which we subject animals. For example, sows are placed in 2x6 cages for the gestation period of their piglets. They are quickly rebred so that they yield one litter right after another. I really did not understand the author's purpose in this focus until I hit this passage: "In recent years, as people began to rethink human-animal relations, such practices have come under increasing criticism. We are suddenly showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because we are about to become one."

Soylent Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I am amazed by all the negative, whining posts concerning life-extension. Don't any of you guys ever read? Don't you actually think!? Our technological progress is moving at an exponential rate. In 30 years or so humans will be augmented to the point of being meatware/hardware cyborgs. In some decades after that we will be hardware/software/etheral beings. I relish living into such an enhanced state, and I just hope I live long enough to start on that path. All this talk about overpopulation, etc. becomes irrelevant as we blast into this future. Dammit, we are technologists! We solve problems! My hat is off to the team at the Salk Gene Expression Laboratory. Great Work!

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Actually, there appears to be an economical alternative. Natural gas can be "cracked" into hydrogen gas and carbon black by bubbling it through a column of molten tin. The carbon accumulates as a removable layer on top of the tin, and pure hydrogen comes off the top of the column. Switching to a hydrogen economy would be difficult, but it certainly is doable. Disposing of the carbon black is a problem, but is minor compared to the continued emission of CO2. Might be able to pelletize the carbon and dump it into a deep ocean trench ( I can imagine the screech coming from the environmentalist at such a suggestion! Deafening! ) Going this route would provide a solution to CO2-induced global warming, but I really doubt that government has the will or competence to do it. https://web.anl.gov/PCS/acsfue... http://newatlas.com/hydrogen-p...