honestly, that's why I'm hardly ever in the office. there's someone there who's noise profile is utterly unfilterable. they fiddle with things, drop things, fidget, cough, snort phlegm up their nose, subvocalize, and…
maybe. but, imagine where we'd be now had science driven the rise of civilization. imagine if all the money squandered on war were invested in science.
great link thanks!
ok you answered my point...but is there not another way to shield consumer electronics ? wouldn't it be cheaper to find a good shielding system (magnetic ?) than to develop expensive custom hardware ?
this is something I never got: why don't they just chuck a whole bunch of cheap consumer gadgets on these things ? Is it really that hard to attach an array (for redundancy) of gopros to constantly transmit video at…
yeh that was one of my favourites too but thing is, nobody can predict which technologies are more of less likely to take-off, it's a mysterious thing but many smart people poo-pooed the internet, cinema, cars, computers
plausibility isn't the point - the scfi devices used are for reduction-ad-absurdum, to zoom-in on aspects of our current society. Also, in the real world some things develop faster than others. In San Junipero they can…
how can they possibly diagnose mental illness in the womb ?
yeh the thing being programmed not same as thing title said was being programmed, am annoyed too
really didn't like Utopia
Entire History of You is my favourite too, then the Xmas special and Be Right Back. White Bear was an interesting idea though, but not so believable.
And since life probably formed (in the same way, in deep-sea vents) on Mars and Earth in parallel, and was later exchanged via impacts, life on Earth is probably partially Martian anyway
counting simple statistics as intelligence is setting the bar very low let's not forget that Hawking is one of the great intellects of our time
Viruses are not living, because they have no metabolism and they cannot self-replicate (they require the replication apparatus of the host) Viruses are not self-contained systems, they are more like organelles of cells,…
honestly, that's why I'm hardly ever in the office. there's someone there who's noise profile is utterly unfilterable. they fiddle with things, drop things, fidget, cough, snort phlegm up their nose, subvocalize, and…
maybe. but, imagine where we'd be now had science driven the rise of civilization. imagine if all the money squandered on war were invested in science.
great link thanks!
ok you answered my point...but is there not another way to shield consumer electronics ? wouldn't it be cheaper to find a good shielding system (magnetic ?) than to develop expensive custom hardware ?
this is something I never got: why don't they just chuck a whole bunch of cheap consumer gadgets on these things ? Is it really that hard to attach an array (for redundancy) of gopros to constantly transmit video at…
yeh that was one of my favourites too but thing is, nobody can predict which technologies are more of less likely to take-off, it's a mysterious thing but many smart people poo-pooed the internet, cinema, cars, computers
plausibility isn't the point - the scfi devices used are for reduction-ad-absurdum, to zoom-in on aspects of our current society. Also, in the real world some things develop faster than others. In San Junipero they can…
how can they possibly diagnose mental illness in the womb ?
yeh the thing being programmed not same as thing title said was being programmed, am annoyed too
really didn't like Utopia
Entire History of You is my favourite too, then the Xmas special and Be Right Back. White Bear was an interesting idea though, but not so believable.
And since life probably formed (in the same way, in deep-sea vents) on Mars and Earth in parallel, and was later exchanged via impacts, life on Earth is probably partially Martian anyway
counting simple statistics as intelligence is setting the bar very low let's not forget that Hawking is one of the great intellects of our time
Viruses are not living, because they have no metabolism and they cannot self-replicate (they require the replication apparatus of the host) Viruses are not self-contained systems, they are more like organelles of cells,…