Don't Look Up

Watch it again.

https://youtu.be/zicGxU5MfwE?s...

The Slashdot discussion from crossing 400 ppm in 2013:

https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

This year's monthly average peak so far, and a new record, was 430.51 ppm in May.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/tren...

AI ethics

Vibes and snake oil

Hmmmm

But what if how the world really works differs from the intention of the policy?

Foxconn renames two factories in Zhengzhou to "Vietnam" and "India". Chinese government confirms by assigning territorial sovereignty of the loading docks to the respective countries.

Solar+battery means not having to participate in expensive old dirty energy. The grid can adapt or become nonviable.

When we terminated our Comcast cable internet service we took our mandatory leased equipment to their office and like everyone else took a selfie of us turning it in to the clerk because that's how trustworthy they are. When we terminated CenturyLink it was more fun. You're fired. Why? We got Starlink so you're fired. Hahahahaha.

LOL. When Russia invaded Ukraine they effortlessly hacked and disabled the other Satellite Internet providers (hard bricking the hardware) in the hours before. They also jammed the cellular links and cut the external cables. The only network left standing in the conflict zone was Starlink, and without it we wouldn't know about the Russian atrocities that took place under the cover of that communication blockade. Which led the relevant Ukrainian secretary to reach out to Elon on Twitter and request assistance. Starlink had been waiting for government approval to enable wide availability and interpreted the request as such approval. Within a day semi trucks full of free Starlink ground stations were en route.

Russia has had their top electronic warfare people on the Starlink problem ever since. The only impact they have had was for Elon to thank them for the help on hardening the network against attack.

The goal is to pay for Mars. And they're getting it done.

Don't let your children take career advice from people who sold themselves into slavery.

Nuclear power is expensive and reliant on external fuels. It takes over a decade to build. It makes a mess we can't clean up. And they lie about all these things.

If you started today you could have a nuclear reactor built by probably 2040. But only if you're lucky because 19 times in 20 they spend a bunch of time and money and then cancel. It would cost many times what solar wind and battery are going for at that time. But the renewables you have online in a year. The reactor doesn't fire up until you have been paying compound interest on the price and overruns for a decade or more.

We don't need it. Which is good because like I said it takes forever to build. We need solutions now, not empty promises that never turn out 15 years from now.

That was 12 years ago. A 12 year out of date critique of a web technology that has had ongoing language updates and two entire rewrites in that interval should be viewed with some suspicion. Also, are you really just citing the title of the article and none of the content?

I'm not even defending PHP here, just questioning lazy kneejerk, "but it sucked once, so now I hate it forever" thinking.

I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.

And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.

(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)