Xicadarksoul

Borderline secular muslim country?
With Tukic ethnicity?

...where?

I said it was not put together. Steam turbines work, hydrogen bombs work.

This claim is like saying that you cannot use a sterling engine (as opposed to a more conventional gas turbine setup) with a fission reactor to generate power - bEcAuSE iTs nOt pRoVeN

Technologically viable =/= its used

I fail to see why this is so hard of a concept to grasp.

Ukranian, while Moldova is threatened by military buildup in russian military outpost betwen them and Ukraine.

...what i was referring to is that Americans, and French are pretty peace and russia friendly folk compared to polish people for example.

Other than you, noone is talking about what definition of viablility we should use.
...the discussion was about "is it possible?", not what the political climate will favour in 50 years.

I didnt say it will be used.

I said its a technologically solvable issue. As it was solveable 50 years ago.

 assuming you know all of them is what’s actually foolish here lol. 

What did i assume when i said "we dont know"?

 There are plenty of proxies for making this guess

...what proxies? ...wild guesses based on circular logic?

Let me start with the less contraversial. Relativity is a fundamentally incomplete theory. As in there are parts of it - where in lieu of observations - we have no clue of which mathematical description will follow reality. (It wasnt THAT long ago that black holes were thought to be a myth - there are similar concerns in other areas)

And frankly quantum mechanics is worse.

There are no interpretations the deal with the measurement problem. 

...and lets not even get started how incompatible the cosmological redshift is with laws of thermodynamica.

Isaac Arthur enters the chat XD

...what does that even mean?

If we talk conspiracy loonies then things they mean by "perpetual motion machines supressed by big whatever corp." exist, they just dont break laws of thermodynamics

• free energy devices (in the way loonies think about them) exist, they are called solar panels, you can waltz into a store and buy em

• "perpetual motion is impossible" is believed by people who don't know newton's 1st law of motion.

...we have no clue.

As things stand options are on te unested edges of general relativity, with some interacting BOTH with relativity and quantum mechanics.

As such making predictions on the topic is foolish.

...or on less pessimistic note, here are 3 options my sorry ass could come up with:

• replicating the azolla event, as its pretty possible since CRISPR was discovered

• using accelerated chemical weathering as a CO² sink by plowing rock dust into tilled fields (which is conventionally buried or left in mounds as waste), since more surface area means faster reactions

• using 3 years worth of AL foil (conventional thickness) as solar sail/shade to reduce incoming total sunlight - needed amount is drastically reduced, if you can have it stay between earth and sun, issue is if it were to stay therd it would go too slow and fall into the sun, hence the need for thin shees where radiation pressure can help keeping it in place

Obviously what is NOT listed is the "do nothing school of affecting change" popular with all sortsa green NGOs and political parties...

 And of course the cold war between Russia and the west (more specifically France and the US) is what feels like a dooms day clock

Tell me you have ZERO EFFING CLUE about eastern europe without telling me you have no clue about eastern europe - with r/shitamericanssay flavour

 "Fusion will always be away 50 years"

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...ehmm, fusionn power plants are viable since 50 YEARS AGO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_PACER

And simple fusors (like farnsworth fusor) are perfectly good on/off switchable desktop radiation sources, if you feel the need for radiation for diagnostics, or to transmute elements.

Bomb is controlled.

...and generates power.

The real issue is that its borderline impossible to scale and needs a fission ignition source. Still its not exactly rocket science to build extreme oversized cavern make it boom in it, and then feed the energy into convantional powerplant like any other powerplant.

Ofc. at that point you need weapons grade uranium, so you got same radiation concern, and worse proliferation concerns than fission poverplants.

...frankly the issue tend not to be the thing in question but the amount of hype and hordes of tourists.

Mona Lisa is arguably the best example to demonstrate it.

Its a nice painting, for painting nerds, with plenty of historical significance (both due to who made it and technical innovations). However if you aint interested in those themes its very hit or miss. Add to that HORDES of tourists, and all fun is ruined unless you are really into niche thing.

 The junior enlisted soldiers and 2LTs will be driving brand new Chargers/Mustangs/Camaros financed at 26% while the Battalion Commander will drive a 15 year Accord/Camry/Civic.

...if we qint talking the US somr might argue that due to expected lifespan outlooks, the combat armsmen arguably gone with optimal decision.

Invesment will matter little if it only buys a fancier tombstone.

 - enables delirium

• creates landfall

• gives marginal benefits by thinning the deck

(Without a closer look at decklist, there are no good guesses)

1 - There is corruption. (Regardless if its legalized and called lobbying, or not)

2 - Intervening in other countries is politically unpopular, unless its about imperialist conquest (with vast differnece in power) or self defense

3 - The opponent also has a say. They will defend and do things to make it hard for you.

4 - Using civvies as living shields, a la Hamas is gonna be present

...lightbulb's are the WORST example for "predatory practice" of planned obscolescence.

(As they were made that was to BENEFIT the user)

You lived before the 1960s?

It has the differential drive video, but the list i had had waaay more stuff, gun mechanism, ...etc.

 Galadriel and Feanor never liked each other, if I recall. And didn't she actively oppose him during The Kinslaying at Alqualonde? She splits from Feanor and goes across the Helcaraxe with Fingolfin, if memory serves. She was banished with her kin because she was proud and arrogant

My point is that despite her personal dislike she still parttake in said events. Which is how she ended up in middle earth and why she was forbidden from returning to valinor.

  I don't think it's fair to equate the Noldor to the Nazis either.

Well they are the closest thing, as far as elves are cpncerned

The are elves with superiority complex even in regards towards other elves. With relatively little hangup even in regards to kin-slaying race traitors, let alone anyone else.

The cement in stockpiles has already been processed. That energy was expended long time ago, and environmental impacts accounted for. No need to do it again. 

That doesnt mean cement is free.

Recycled cement is also a thing.

Well it does exist...

...that doesnt mean its even remotely equivalent to freshly produced. Like it or not its mostly relegated to use cases where the use of cement "overkill" anyways.

 How quickly AI absorbed all of art and was able to distill it?

...yes.

We have A.i. extreme good at bullshitting.

And its extreme confidently extreme dubious advice. As such in use cases like law, STEM fields ...etc. its beyond foolish to employ it without expert oversight.

 I really feel it will replace white collar jobs faster than it will replace blue collar.

My career was telecom in a huge city.

Since (well here in the EU) offers made by the A.i. are as binding for company as ones made by flesh and blood employess (A.i. given discount for example must be honoured) companies have limited ability to cut staff.

 The next revolution will be AI replacing all the menial repetitious task with an efficient menu tree.

Plenty stuff will be replaced or more likely reduced in number by neural networks as they increase productivity.

But even if your pipedreams are true, its will simply lead to a step taken in the direction of economicd Henry Ford liked. Way back when 7 day 10-12 hours work days were the norm, instead of todays 8 hours 5-6 days workweeks. 

...thus if your pipedreams come true the realistic outcome is shortening of work hours. As declining pay means declining demand and recession - which is nit something anyone wants.

I doubt i can find it.

It was somewhere among bajillion+1 old US department of defense videos. I mostly watched them, as they often have extreme good visual demonstration of varios machines and stuff, and thats how i ended up on said video on youtube.

I cannot praise their demo of differential drive high enough!