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Yeah, that wasn't clear at all. I should have just said "deployment on Navy ship". If you are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expeditionary_Strike_Group https://en.wikipedia…

It's really starting to feel like we "live in the future" more and more everyday. The stuff we used to dream about as kids is becoming reality. Amid all the doom and gloom that see…

Solutions don't necessarily need everybody to be on board. Somebody could come up with something tomorrow. Maybe a bacteria that can populate the ocean, which precipitates carbon f…

Our conventional weapons and economic influence are the leverage and deterrents. It's pretty unlikely that we would ever again nuke a non-nuclear entity. The non nuclear entities k…

If anything it would just be one of their Von Neumann probes looking to fuel up, probably from Jupiter or Uranus. Maybe it would send some pics of us back to the home world where t…

Yes, it would be like the ants on the other side of my yard waiting for me to come over and have a conversation with them.

Maybe the problems of today will be solved with the technology of tomorrow. As far as nuclear bombs, we don't really seem to be using them much anymore. They are just trump cards i…

Yes, but Karl Marx's plan relies on motivating self interested humans, who have a natural desire to minimize their output energy expenditure. Machines can make us more and more stu…

Agreed. Once we build a clanking replicator, or it's biological/nano counterpart, we'll be approaching a state where thought manifests reality. As a thought experiment, if every on…

Author here. I am hoping to get some feedback from the readership here on HN. You basically connect 5 or 10 keys, such as Cherry MX, to an Arduino. The software on the computer cre…