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That just isn't practically doable with any technology within humanity's reach, probably for centuries. If it ever will be at all.
The amount of energy needed to propel anything at that speed is enormous.
The Flu is caused by the "influenza virus".
So even though they are both contagious respiratory illnesses, they are caused by completely different viruses.
The reason we've seen far fewer influenza cases these past 2 years isn't related to the 2 viruses out competing eachother.
It's much more likely that the pandemic measures we've had in place, over most of the world, like social distancing, mask wearing, lockdowns, closed borders, etc., has had a greater impact on the flu, because it isn't as contagious as covid.
When we remove the pandemic measures, we're probably going to see the usual flu numbers again.
Maybe even worse than normal, for the first couple of seasons. Since we haven't been as exposed to the flu for 2 years.
"Proof of work" answers none of them.
New cryptocurrencies appear all the time. This dillutes the cryptocurrency space. There's only so much capital to invest in any of them.
And the dollar has value, because they're backed up by a government. Not because the bills themselves have an intrinsic value.
This puts a hard limit on the number of currencies, and how much they'll dillute the dollar (or any other country's currency). Since you'll normally only see a single currency per government.
Cryptocurrencies on the other hand, aren't tied to any country.
There's no hard limit on the amount of them. So every time a new one shows up, they'll they'll take a piece of the cake from the already existing ones, since the space is limited by the number of people willing to invest in them and how much these people have to invest.
I can't think of any other explanation to why you'd use the word "Though" here.
Nobody here's saying anything like that, though. Not sure how you got that idea?
But if the OS on your TV isn't being updated by LG any longer, then you won't be able install the newest versions of many apps, since they use SDK-features, that aren't supported by the older versions of the OS.
Whether an app is actually developed by a third-party, like the BBC or HBO, doesn't change the fact that "minimum supported OS version", is as crippling for a TV, as it is for a smartphone or tablet.
Last time I had to buy a new smartphone, even though the old one was still in excellent working condition, was because my bank and mobile payment apps, stopped supporting the Android OS version, it were stuck at.
I'd hate to also have to buy new TV's, just because the Netflix, HBO, or whatever apps I use, stop working.
To play devil's advocate:
This could be happening _right now_.
1) Create and release CoVid.
2) Engineer a vaccine, that also protects against a secondary, 100% deadly virus. (SinoVac?)
3) Vaccinate your own population.
4) Release the super-deadly, secret 2nd virus.
5) Profit.
> it is to big a project to not leak just based on everyone involved having to not tell anyone.
Yeah. This where it, and most of the other grand conspiracy theories, start to become unrealistic. It would be impossible to keep the secret from coming out.
But it would make a great plot for thriller novel.
What Christians believe, doesn't necessarily have anything to with what the Bible says.
Even when it does, then it's often cherry picked.
This has absolutely _nothing_ to do with what I wrote.
I have no idea why you'd even make this comment?
It's literally in the comment.
The redaction/retraction confusion here is rather funny.
"Redacted" scientific research on covid, would make a conspiracy theorist out of me too :)
> People insist on making simple things too complicated.
Didn't you just make it more complicated here?
By adding a disclaimer? And at the same time presenting possibly outdated information? And requiring people to verify the information with another source?
While deep down knowing very well, that a lot, if not most, will not double check the information, before they end in an emergency?
And also, verifying for accuracy once does nothing, if the information becomes outdated, between verifying and the time of the emergency.
The simplest solution here, was what they actually did. They removed the information that was the source of the confusion.
The problem wasn't about _being able to land_, when in the middle of nowhere.
If you're "in the middle of nowhere", how are going to get a helicopter to you? What are you going to tell them with no address etc.?
By going towards a town, they'll know where to fly to, so they can pick you up.
If you sell me a phone, and then deny me the right to use it as phone, then you are breaking the law. At least where I live. I would be able to demand a refund, and the Company could be penalized for lying about what they sell.
You are being absurd.
Also, private businesses should always be able to enforce their rules on their platform/property, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes like ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc.
Otherwise you could just shit on the floor of a restaurant, and they could do nothing about it.
Again, you are being absurd.
Oh, you sweet summer child.
Nobody was saying anything like that.
But go ahead. Have fun with your strawman arguments.
This is not true.
Those things have _nothing_ to do with each other.
The US southern states got very rich on cotton, tobacco, etc., and had a high GDP, during slavery.
Were the slaves not oppressed?
Again, GDP has nothing to do with being oppressed or not.
Unlike the religious people who believe, that they can sin as much as they want to, just as long as they repent, and then still go to heaven?
Do you think women shouldn't have rights too, if a country's government doesn't think they are worthy?
That we shouldn't care about the treatment of migrant workers in the Middle East?
Apartheid was fine? Slavery?
I mean, as long as the country's government thinks so, and the "cultural values are different".
It's honestly disheartening to read a comment such as yours here.
No, MY country's government isn't doing anything like that.
I guess you're talking about the actions of the US government, which I have not condoned.
So this is "whataboutism".
I find it funny, that nobody here's able to defend the CCP, without resorting to that.
No. Of course not.
How can you honestly believe, that a smartphone producer controlling what you can access _on the internet_, is the same thing, as an online platform having a say in what happens on _their_ platform?
That's completely absurd.
Doesn't that make _you_ the anti-chinese one here?
Since "independent survival" will never be feasible on Mars, your comment sounds like pure fiction.
It's not like you can just go out in the wilderness and kill an animal for food, or find a river to drink from. You can't even breathe there.
"Independent survival" is barely even feasible on Earth.
You will always be dependent on the facilities, supply ships, etc.
Then there's the question of protecting what you have, without having any authorities, law enforcement, etc. to help you.
If you go there, it will most likely be an experience as in the old mining towns, where a single company owned everything, (factory, shops, residential areas, recreational areas, etc), and the workers will mainly be paid in "company bucks", that can only be used there.
For most people, it'll be like a dystopian neo-feudalistic nightmare, you can't wake up from. One where you can't even quit your job, because there's nowhere else to go. Indentured servitude on another planet.
But the Elon fan boys will no doubt be happy to sign up for it anyway.
Its not a bluff, when the point is to weed out the ones, who aren't willing to actually do a written proposal.
> They're overkill for trivialities ... and or for things that don't really matter.
I think you answered your own question.
Like, I imagine that my country would the greenest & cleanest in the world, if we would get to disregard all factory and car emissions, from our stats.
And I'd be rightly downvoted for making that claim.
Isn't that a bit disingenuous?
I'd imagine you'd see similar improvement in other countries stats, if you remove the poorest and the drug gangs.
I wasn't trying to answer that.
I'm aware that my comment merely added an additional layer, between us and "the creator"/creation, (however you define that).
My point was more, that I don't believe our universe is unique, as in "alone". But rather that it is just one of many.
That some "God", or event, didn't create a single universe, perfect for (human) life. That's way too antropocentric for me.
Instead I believe that they are plentiful, and by chance one of them happened to be suitable for life as we know it.
We are not here because a universe _was created for us_.
We are here because a universe _could produce us_.