Recent content by Jarhyn

That's the problem though; people have a horrible track record of understanding that even when an alarm is not in the alarm state, it's still being "used" for the peace of mind provided by its existence. It is "used" to make this fundamentally dangerous area safe enough to live in

They're going to try to, but it's not going to work. Apparently, there's a second set of Epstein files being put together by the victims which will very likely "key out" all the redactions. Hell, it may already have been put together, according to the lawyers for the victims. The very fact...

The funny part is that Lamarck did successfully describe at least most of "social/memetic evolution", and how ideologies evolve. Its just not how biological evolution happens, at least until memetic processes impinge on the genetic ones (like through gene editing via technology).

We spent the time trying to become the thing ourselves. Honestly, I really hope it isn't, but even if it is, we have likely thousands of years to punt whatever it is out of wherever it's trying to grow, and we have an insane home field advantage.

As I said, we're really early. It takes some time to get the ingredients for life all together.

Seriously? That's like asking "reproduce and spread on whose dime?" Its do that or perish, over time. By the time humanity is able to do that, we will be mostly "digital hybrids", assuming we survive at all. We will be existing at legrange points as pure computer hardware constructions. What...

Andromeda, a whole other galaxy, will be flying through before then. Galaxies themselves are "intergalactic". The question is whether we can "tag" an interstellar rock like this one on its way through with something that can soak up enough energy somewhere along its pathway to activate and...

Still doesn't change the fact that one of these days, we will be turning rocks like this into 'earthling probes' ourselves. Over time that probability will increase exponentially, if only because we are the reason.

"Practical" You realize that there is no real time limit, ya? If you're cold and have sufficient ambianr energy for most of the trip, from your perspective time moves as fast or slow as you want. It's not really a "long" game taking a hundred or a thousand or ten thousand years to get aroind...

I'm just kinda floored that all the Republicans I have talked to seem to have a bigger focus on who uses what bathroom than the fact the president rapes kids.

I can only imagine that if you have a probe designed to launch life into a system, the most dangerous places to go with it include "anywhere near the habitable or inhabited world". The goal wouldn't be research the goal would be "beach-head" and competing over an already contested world is...

It could, but that still means needing to get the thing. I would much rather get as close as possible to a destination before dropping payloads, also potentially because some kind of scans might be on the itinerary. my goals in a system, if I were to be an alien driving that rock, would be to...

I mean, it might not even be a "probe" but a whole vessel, if we are in the realm of wild speculation. The near passes of 3 different planets IS wild, though, TBH. If I were to design a craft, it would look kind of like this one does. I keep saying the best way to travel is to paint a rock...

You don't but moreover you don't have to with AA. It doesn't have to be overt or even conscious racism. It doesn't even have to be current racism for AA measures to work. The reality here is that you, Loren, have been busy assuming some component other than the howls of racism and the echos of...

My favorite is "The Pedophile"