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Cause beeing poor can force you to stick together, and with relative richness, we are alone and divided with our choices.
I think we are doing something very wrong with electric airplanes- namely, the idea, that you have to have one craft that has to archieve vtol lift off. My Question: Why?
Why not a tug drone, that gets a plane up to altitude in a VTOL way, fly with full battery capacity and then land with a rotor arrest like a helicopter - with the tug long detached and returned.
I always wondered, if there is a way to geoengineer clouds to refill those aquifiers.
Find out the main windband going there, go over the ocean, create a artifical thermic (via solar) and produce lots of moisture (ultrasonic foggers driven by solar?), creating rainclouds in a synethetic way.
If its this, or triage, a bloody thump up should be sufficient. If the regulators dont like it, let them come down and out to review procedure.
Higherups will usually defend by hiding behind the process - aka the virtual will and orders of the social golem that is a company.
And nobody alone is responsible for the process. There is not necessary a feeling of responsibility on top- just because powers are granted by the process.
The generation is not switched off - in fact the generation is not off-switchable- that is the problem. You can break the circuit, but on any connection of source and ground - it still shortens- so if the solar plates shater due to heat stress and connect with dirty water ...
Actually governments walling the internet in, results in lots of smaller local alternatives due to protectionism.
Which might- if freedom is allowed to fluctuate- may result in competition. Look at chinas weechat
Launch Loop or Space Fountain are superior. Even the Laser Transmitted Energy solution is. Why? Because they do not have such tremendous costs to install and do not rely on hypothetical yet to develop substances.
There was a small project where somebody used a hygroscopic substance (Silicagel) to collect water in the atmosphere in the desert and freed it with concentrated sunlight, and then condensed it.
http://perkscience.com/harvest-water-desert-air/
Yes, she is a nice little sockpuppet for the car-industry and obviously getting what you want as a industry always damaged the industry itself. No innovation, no risk taking, no fast adaption of new tech..
This sort of behaviour opened up a whole industry for disruption, so in a way corrupt politicians are the grave-diggers of old industrys.
Deserts are abandunt- in fact they are the default ecology on all planets.
https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/229_RSER_WildLife_2011.pdf
If solar panels could be modified to create substained microclimates below that would be awesome. After all, there is still enough straylight getting below, to allow for a average forrestplant to exist.
Imagine if we could do solar in space.. infinite area- no soil wasted, the power transmitted as a ray of death... oh, so this is why we do not do solar in space.
I always found it astounding, that all those extremists rather prefer to dwell in this nightmarish bureaucratic western democracies, while paradises are abundant. North Korea, if you fance the Communistic spectrum, somalia if you are a libertarian and plenty of religious outliers to live the life of ones dreams. And yet, here they are..
Branded with bleeding ears. Dolby.
Not conspirancid related - but a real problem. If there is a fire, solar panels produce power while preventing water from reaching the roof - and electrocute fireman. How to solve?
Lots of capitalistic countrys have suffering citizens, but there is there private fault, because they dont work hard enough. We all know the various ideologys immunity declarations. I wish there was a downvote for boring.
One particular outrageous mob-lob in germany is the driving instructor caste.
Basically, the old generations, are allowed to drive everything with there old driving allowances.
Now for every generation coming after that, new driving allowances are needed, per various class of vehicle, wether you have a trailer attached and so and and so forth.
Its the new kind of mob activity, that uses the law to pressure people into paying for unneeded services and obstruct buisness for new buisnesses.
> all prices of everything need to adjust because the 'stupid currency' is fixed.
Thats a price system like at the gas station, right?
Sounds good to me.
Its the war of mom & dads state sponsored sock-puppets waged against chemical induced self-destruction.
It would be really interesting to have a panel where both sides could express there interests, trying to find a compromise.
From Impact-boom to elevator-bling in 2 years. Not bad, Mr.Musk, not bad at all.
Yeah, tell your wife she can marry the mortage.
We have deformed it, redefined it, idolized and frozzen parts of it and restored seperat parts of it. And we are still part of it.
I am a animal. The bacteria inside of me is there so i can diggest other living beeings, who devoured either directly or in a chain sunlight. I am part of nature, and im trying to be it in a responsible way.
Part of that responsible way is to not give into any emotional hipocrisy. I call the one, buying a plant to eat, where a whole forrest had to go forever, erasing all future opposum-opportunitys more cruel then a girl who tired eats a egg in the morning, for which she fought in rain and storm on a non-high-tech farm.
Sorry Sir, your high horse has Atresia ani,we have to put it down.
Seriously, one longs to stand on the sideline, revelling in the irony of seeing a city dweller chased down by his own delusional kind.
But then.. no. The Possum is part of nature, its trying to feed on farm animals held in small numbers- is part of nature, its death because it tryied to hard - is part of nature. Im very glad the author is not part of your progress. The extinctions, the fully automated farms, the wildlife instinction with gas and traps, because "hunting" is to much for someone so refinend and noble a creature.
I wish you would starve for a day. I want to see drawing calories ouf of morals. I want to see the doubts vannish in that all encompassing hole your stomache becomes. I want to see you break out of that disney delusion of nature, into the ugly reality that is nature. To accept it as part of what is. Notice how the author is not poisoning everything that crawls on her farm. Notice how she is honest to herself. How she is exausted from a lot of what life throws at her?
She is a adult.
You are not.
Millenia of continuity- as in there always where citys, there always where villages, there always where fields.
No civil war destroyed all records.
No civil war spanning more then three generations.
No locked in against foreigners syndrom.
One of the reason the sowjet state collapsed is because they lapsed when it came to surveilance, as in they started to built massive public housing projects, allowing for family to move into theire own flats and thus escape surveilance.
Another lesson seems to be, that historys smallest revolutionary cell can be bribed into neutrality by economic success.
I honestly find this attitude fascinating. A Technology that exists since- 5 years, and yet, expertise is demanded, as if these exchanges could attract and hire the experts of banks.
In china central governance can be measured in milenia
They are deep in denial here on cultures whos main job it was to guarantee continous existance and not technological advances. Nice try.