Eros Venus now, sasa?

Precisely. The original post shows there could still be labor willing to do the work, but it does does not address how that work would be funded. Even if the labor was free there are resources required to build and maintain that plant that are not free. Where do those resources come from?

Now this is the kind of content generation I was hoping to find when I came to Lemmy!

The lowest donation in that tier is 240k, they could and are probably giving more.

Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids sit at Lagrange points. Material found there is not counted in the ‘clearing the orbit’ criteria. They are in stable orbits caused by the mass of the planet in question, not in lieu of a massive enough body.

You can boil whole grain wheat down into porridge. It’s not the go-to use for wheat now, but the rice cooking method still provides a nutritious meal.

Robotics (or more broadly mechatronics) is a super interesting field. To do the work at the mechanical/electrical interface is really hard.

The field of industrial controls skips the hard part and just buys stuff that is pre-designed to move. Then those pre-designed pieces are made to fit and work together. It’s like complicated Legos and is honestly very fun and rewarding.

If you want to do programming with a physical result, controls engineering is a great option. I would recommend shooting for the hard stuff (real programming - DSP, FPGA, etc) knowing you’ve got a safe fallback with industrial controls (PLC programming).

Yup. The people pushing AI are not concerned with the social or economic reprocussions of pushing AI. They just want line go up.

The “Don’t Look Up” greed + willful ignorance will crush us all.

I think the most reliable way to advance a scientific field is to find a technique used in a different field and apply it to yours. Even more reliable if you use techniques from theoretical math.

It’s so weird thinking about how we’re just copying DNA. That’s pretty much the purpose of life; replicate these strange molecules as much as possible. Consciousness is some unintended byproduct of the ‘copy forever’ algorithm.

This is why lectures should be obsolete at this point. Lectures should be a video done really well once. Class should be practice time where you can ask experts for help when you get stuck.

Is this just gerrymandering in sandwich form?

Technically that is profit maximizing, where as profit is just surplus value created. Nothing wrong with profit, profit maximizing at the expense of all else is a recipe for civilization collapse.

In our tree mushroom example, if both organisms grow faster by sharing nutrients than by hoarding, they have both made a profit.

Is chemical energy more readily available from plastics than from wood? You’d have to imagine it is if evolution is adapting these timescales.

It’s a bird, so that’s prob the he.

1 fascist beating ~= 10 citations.

Get to it, bud!

Agree with the sentiment, but FDR was less than 100 years ago. He was a damned good world leader IMO.

They also quite demanding of what types of food to eat to the point where they make us crave what they crave.

Cool writing prompt: Elusive Dawn

He just needs to make it an employee owned company. I believe it would make it a stable institution.