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Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48860916

I listened to the podcast version (and was awake for much of it). There was talk of self-replication probes and if there is intelligent life out there where are the probes swarming all over the place.

In addition to the probes out to colonize the galaxy, many of these problems are likely (it seams) to spell trouble for any space economy. It would be interesting to solve some of the problems (and see real world [solar system] use) of the technologies / techniques.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01902-0

A blogger known as Student Geng, whose real name is Geng Hongwei

There is so much to be done and it is not going to be solved by any one thing. That in mind, something like an independent third party patient advocates / advisors would be great. It is hard to be an informed patient these days, Navigating insurance and paperwork is tough and getting second opinions is sometimes had.

It still needed a little electric help.

Notice all the references to the B-21 are future tense.

I sometimes think those in the environmental movement have made a mistake with their messaging. It is too often "we need to suffer to save the planet". It could also be things like:

  "Why do you want to pay more to drive a giant expensive gas guzzling vehicle to work so that you can pay for a giant expensive gas guzzling vehicle to go to work in".

  "Why do you want to pay for extra electricity when conservation and efficiency will help save money for other things"

  "Single use items are thing you pay for time and  time again. Durable maintainable items you pay for once."

  "Throwing things in the garbage is like paying to store things forever (landfills are not free)"

That out of the way, it looks like a nice project except I am running linux on my laptop. Is there something like this for Xfce?

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/index.php?src=nav

This is unfair. I have gotten settlement checks for as much as $15 US Dollars. I have never gotten a coupon.

My eye doctor asked, during my last visit, if I wanted a prescription for reading glasses and then asked if I wanted them to read close up (book, phone, etc) or for a laptop.

So, to make a guess at an answer to your question: Maybe different people have different needs.

I had no idea. This was before Babbage and Lovelace even. To work all that out on paper must have been a tremendous undertaking and it still turned out pretty good.