the6threplicant

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by the6threplicant 2mo ago
I really thought Evernote would scratch this itch nearly a decade ago (or so it feels). But it ended up being a WORN service (Write-Once, Read-Never). Would love something better than markup but not as CPU intensive as Evernote.
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
This is a ridiculous way of looking at things. Galileo was persecuted by The Church not other scientists who supported him. Fermi's paradox isn't what you've stated. Listen to the scientists. Not the politicians. Not the mili
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
And when we had the evidence we changed our minds. Just like it should be. So the question should be why are so many people believing in aliens when there is so little evidence for them?
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
Breaking Special Relativity is not some 15th century "oh, there's some lovely dirt down here" impressionable pleb. We have machines that can confirm SR to within ridiculous level.
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
What do you want people to do. I see lot of "close minded" people looking at the evidence and concluding that it's not enough evidence to conclude aliens are visiting us. It looks like these UAPs are everywhere but the eviden
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
The people that believe that these UAP seem to think there is both a Fermi paradox and reverse Fermi Paradox at the same time.
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
A lot of things would be demonstratively broken if Special Relativity is wrong.
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by the6threplicant 4y ago
I want a whole group of scientists to investigate the evidence. I don't trust the military or Congress since they're happy to spend money on ESP or telekinesis studies and still not be able to reach a conclusion. Military pilots h
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by the6threplicant 5y ago
If scientists speak out they then get labelled as political. It's a lose-lose situation that scientists face. Misinformation is like junk food. It triggers people's endorphins while scientific thinking is vegetables and fruits. It
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by the6threplicant 5y ago
Curiosity and not Smart: down the conspiracy rabbit hole you can go Smart and not curious: who knows? psychopath? Both: fun person to talk to at a party
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by the6threplicant 5y ago
I presume that it would more feasible to do a dipole antenna based radio telescope like LOFAR to take advantage of the radio silence.
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by the6threplicant 5y ago
My favourite how different the "home budget" and a national economy works is if you want to save some money for a trip you just stop spending a bit and keep the extra money in a savings account until needed. If an economy did that
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
In other words it's following a logistics curve. This is what every pandemic does: the problem is that we can't know when the inflection point is. Sometimes it's quite early on, and sometimes it isn't. Plan for the latte
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
Absolutely worth it. You do need to book/reserve a tour.
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
One of the problems I see with CO2 sequestration is that it will be a nice way for companies to suck at the teat of taxpayers the world over. I'm sure Halliburton-like companies have a 3 step plan to be right at the front of the money
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
Pretty much anything by James Burke, either video or print.
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
You need infrastructure. You need petrol/oil to power the machines to build the roads so you can build the electricity to be able to build the internet connectivity that you need. The nations are wealthy but if the profits are siphoned
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
They are inalienable rights first. It has nothing to do with citizenship. If I'm on US soil then I have (roughly) the same right as a US citizen. That's what so great about the Bill of Rights. (note there some specific clause for
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
I get giddy with excitement whenever I see someone has rewritten/touched my code.
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
10 years ago?
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
One could say that particle physics is more a victim of its own success.
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
The opposite is happening. We're making the oceans more acidic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
Isn't that the whole point of the Senate?
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
It's the same logic as "If we don't use antibiotics in cattle they'll all die!". Totally ignoring the unintended consequences of antibiotic resistance in humans.
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by the6threplicant 7y ago
But the Dutch have it as well and no one goes on and on about it.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
> I'm not sure if what we do in the U.S. and Europe will have much impact It's not like all of that plastic is just domestic consumption. Right? We just exported our negative externalities. We don't really have a moral hig
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
I seem to find different coloured folders and inconsistent line spacing when listing folders in column view but not this problem.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
> much-loved Vespa with an Unu Motoros electric moped Your neighbours love you now.
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
As one of the PIs said at the NASA briefing. If you can bring Opportunity home I'll prefer if you bring back 180kg of Mars rocks. We already know what the rover is made of. :)
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by the6threplicant 8y ago
We need to start using the term "amateur" in it's original sense to mean "for the love of". This is why people call themselves amateur astronomers, say, not because they failed astronomy class but because they love

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