Management paid little attention to dates in the 20th century does anyone seriously think they will pay attention to a leap hour as an edge case for time? I'm gonna have to get more popcorn. Obviously the issue is because software is still made as cheaply as possible and even with the subject of time right in their face they still don't code to handle it. So let's abolish accuracy and assume the earth is always the same size - slaps forehead.

Maybe 360 days would make it nice and round.

Fuck it - let's go epoch time all around the world no more DST, no stupid 720 degree clock or timezones. While we're at it - let's get rid of days of the week, month and years as well. It's 1791452533 right now, I'll see you at 1791452533.

I'd say another drawback to getting rid DST is that any tradesman working outside would have to start banging hammers an hour earlier to miss the heat of the day waking people up whilst construction projects miss an hour per day, per person, per project because exhaustion leads to fatal work accidents.

Then there is the additional energy consumption required for lighting in the evening that would have been provided by the sun for free.

I'm starting to see just how complex this is all going to be and that the only thing worse than daylight savings is not having daylight savings.

As impressive as it is there is no abort capability for starship and the technology for seats that gimbal through the flip maneuver still don't exist. Falcon's retirement also retires the dragon which is the only proven functional human rated capsule in exchange for Boeing's Starliner and, well we all know just how good that is. Unless of course NASA wants to ask Russia to take American astronauts to ISS.

Then again the only realistically viable lunar lander is Alpaca which by-passes many of the issue both Blue Origin and SpaceX has with their landers. So, IMO, I think there are some compelling arguments to keeping Falcon if America wants to beat China back to the moon who, in reality, are starting to look like they will get back there first.

Of course SLS Block 1B could do the entire thing in single launch IF NASA could afford the tower upgrades.

How does materials change orbital phenomenon?

By far, with all these new mega constellations the biggest risk we face is from the Kessler syndrome from which there will be no way back and end any ambitions for human space exploration for thousands of years.

It would be worthwhile to have tight international regulation as it is the one interest that all countries share.

This will be the next frontier, the question is what happens when you keep pumping heat into them. I wonder what will it to to infrared astronomy? Also, electronics will have to stay inside the Van Alan belt, so it will be interesting how the issue of cosmic radiation flipping bits will be handled.

They're too busy eating all the kumquats off my fruit trees to make any noise. If you said Kookaburras then it might be a different story.

Also Birds. I prefer to have birds around than stupid drones delivering shit. The only consideration is if it uses less fuel energy than a driver with a truck full of parcels.

Eagles in Australia are known to attack and disable drones and are notoriously territorial, big, dangerous, fucking awesome and a protected species - meaning you are liable if your drone hurts one whilst it is attacking your drone.

In Australia it could cause a bush fire - so you've actually raised a very valid safety concern.

You mean plankton and zooplankton isn't there bro.

Mom it's a floordrobe!

It bio-accumulates. Radio-isotopes mimic micro-nutrients and are used by the body of plants and animals until they are eaten by something else.

Which is how people accumulate radio-isotopes in the body because it is humans on the top of the food chain. After that it takes about 6 years of internal radiation exposure for body tissues to gestate a tumor. Plutonium Chloride is really good at creating leukemia because it looks like iron to the body and readily absorbed by people.

When the animal (or human) dies the radio-isotope is returned to the environment to begin the cycle again until it goes through enough half-lives to decay energetically.

It looks like it's the other way around. DP we've had some really good conversations over the years. Of late I've seen a lot of outrage from you which is odd because it seems like we agree on many, but not all, things. With all sincerity, I hope you are ok.

I've analyzed roughly 12-18 acts of law, some international agreements and written letter to politician on both sides of politics framed in language they understand. My work here raised awareness amongst politicians who didn't realize some of the things they were endorsing into law, like body cavity searches on minors. The politicians would often write back thanking me, or telling me the party line. Sometimes I see the effect in the media. I've read thousands of pages of legislation, then written formal submissions most in the 10-100 page range. I've lobbied extensively on Human Rights and Freedom of speech issues.

I think that tells you I'm a bus driver except no one pays or thanks me. Tell me about the work you have done.

This is exactly what Franklin was trying to warn us about. He was saying "Look this constitution is good and I think government is a good idea but none of it is perfect". He was saying that a day will come when the ideas that make a nation great will be subject to corruption. Look at the Soviet Union, that also collapsed from corruption but I don;t see anyone in the west saying "Hey that could happen to us too". You're not going find any argument from me that corruption is bad. It is the enemy of civilization.

It's not that humans decided the systems should favor the wealthy, it's the wealthy who decided it should favor the wealthy through lobbying over hundreds of years. It was the psychopathic self interested people taking advantage of ok, dumb and also well meaning or even naive people that is destroying democracy - again what Franklin was warning this current right now living generation that this system is imperfect and there simply wasn't facility enough in his day to build a system of government that could resist corruption.

The question is; what are YOU going to do about it. I know what I have done about however I am one person and laws are sometimes thousands of pages long. You think the politicians read all of it? Have a go drinkypoo find an act of law that bothers you, read it, analyze it and write to the policritters. Complaining to me does nothing. Once you do that you will understand why a Technocracy is actually a pretty good idea, especially if we incorporate the lessons Franklin was trying to teach.

No. Crony capitalism is devolving us towards corporatism, the 21st century version of feudalism. Feudalism is what communism tries to convert capitalistic democracies into - but we're doing it for them with apathy, which is *exactly* what communist leaders predict will happen to us. Pure capitalism is absolutely terrifying which is why democracy is an attempt to moderate it into something that resembles civilization. However a democratic society is open to corruption by it's very nature. It has to be otherwise it would not be democratic and you're observing the vectors for eroding democracy in the triad of apathy, stupidity and self interest that causes corruption.

So don't be blaming democracy or technocracy for human nature because all that is is an excuse to do nothing.