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Don't worry AGI will make all human modes of warfare disappear for all eternity.
By disappearing the humans for all eternity. It’s all but a scifi cliche now.
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
I think humanity deserves it after so many consecutive weird years
The planet itself, being a rock, doesn't care, at all.
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
Going to have to start following this Derek Lowe guy. He also had a good balanced bit on room temp superconductor. Well done science reporting without the hyperbole.
If 2023 ends up giving us AGI, room-temperature superconductors, Starships and a cure for cancer, I think we will able to call it a good year...
It is probably too late with record high temperatures, every few years, for centuries to come.
The 2007 IPCC climate change synthesis report specified a deadline of 2015 for peak CO2 in order to meet the lowest mitigation scenario. Of course we've blown past that date and it's still full speed ahead with business as usual.
Alas, I try not to blather on about the severity of the climate situation in every thread.
Going to have to start following this Derek Lowe guy. He also had a good balanced bit on room temp superconductor. Well done science reporting without the hyperbole.
You’re in for a treat! Check out his “Things I Won't Work With” series.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo...
"It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water --- with which it reacts explosively."
- John D Clark, Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Going to have to start following this Derek Lowe guy. He also had a good balanced bit on room temp superconductor. Well done science reporting without the hyperbole.