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Oh really. Starting in the 1950's the United States Air Force used unmanned drones as target practice. They were just cheap remote control aircraft. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.or…

Yes. A recent one. Prior to 2003, people were less interested in non-sentient autonomous machines. Drones. As technology advances, autonomous machines may very likely grow beyond t…

Also: Nothing I've stated has any pop-psych/pop-social tripe requirements. That's just you skimming my comment and launching a knee-jerk reply. Belittle something else, please.

The Fermi Paradox posits the premise of ANY artifact indicative of intelligent origins. It doesn't have to be "self replicating drones." It could be inert bullets, arrow heads, sha…

Just because you like the idea, doesn't mean it gets adopted.

Yeah, I really don't buy that premise at all. Just because some individual likes the idea of drones, doesn't make them implicitly virtuous. The decision to use resources to pollute…

If that's the case then we definitely do not want to face the universe as primitive indiginous people unceremoniously discovered by technologically mature explorers.

I, uh, don't happen to understand where... precisely, that real people paid with their lives, due to these leaks. From where I stand, he released Power Point slides to journalists,…

I can't help but stand this next to the Challenger Space Shuttle O-ring thread, without feeling a profound sense of resonance between these 2 scenarios. https://news.ycombinator.co…

"Do you realise the astronauts will run out of nitrogen on day 59 and die?" So Mars One isn't really funny, it has probably set back the credibility of the movement by a decade. I …

Very true. The Mac Pro is eternally reminiscent of a trash can, and it feels hazardous leaving it out in the open, because maybe someone might actually mistake it for one and drop …

Oh, definitely true. Apple is always a higher price in general, just as a brand name. It's their intended marketing strategy. Even within Apple's own product line though, compare w…

An iPad with a keyboard. God help us all. And looking back on ye olden MacOS 9, prior to OSX, there were things that just felt nice about the interface that no longer hold sway. Cl…

But don't actually LIKE the mac mini. It's not something I particularly want. I do kind of want the huge cinema displays. But they're expensive. I do kind of want the cylindrical m…

Sometimes I get the feeling that those who control industries that profit from climate-altering human behavior believe that it's okay to alter the climate, because whatever they ha…

Last time I checked, a jet engine doesn't quite blow smoke entirely across a tarmac. Maybe hot air just rises anyway. Maybe kinetic influence matters less than boosting the thermal…

No, that's a bad idea. TC articles ARE many times vapid, uniformative and click-baity, but... They will remain tech-oriented, timely and do serve the purpose of initiating conversa…

But by Christmas of 2001, a lot of people would just roll their eyes, and say things like "Oh come on. Iraq? Bullshit. No way." [0] By mid-2002 there were weird goings on, things l…

Yeah, that's probably true. I'm thinking in terms of conversations at Christmas parties in 2001.

If there's only one source of news that feeds into the grapevine effect then you only need to tune into the grapevine. There are like five journalistic camps that feed into my grap…

My house didn't have cable at that time, and I was not yet in high school. We watched the first gulf war in social studies class, putting it in league with the space shuttle challe…

Yes, but that was tabloid junk. A seedy hollywood yarn. Not an air disaster that demolished two buildings filled with people. 9/11 had teeth that other stories couldn't come close …

There was a period of time, starting upon the day of, and then continuing for some years after the 9/11 attacks, where " The News " was something you couldn't help but be engrossed…

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