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Comment Re:Can I build my generation spaceship from this? (Score 1) 57

If you're catching the products of your exhaust then you're now negating the effect of producing the exhaust in the first place, so you're not going anywhere.

Yes Newton's 3rd law. Inconvenient. AI tells me we need better Closed-Cycle Engines.

It's very hot vapour coming out the back, but I guess it is freezing pretty quick and creating a cloud of some kind. Nebulas seem to stay in the same place. And we could model where this gas is most likely to be. Maybe by trailing a massive charged (sticky) net of some kind we could fish some water back in.

Not all rockets produce water. Rockets that use hydrogen and oxygen do, but not all rockets use that fuel blend.

My one does. 8) I'm guessing a generation ship is running on momentum most of the time.

Frozen water does not have most of the things to sustain life. It has water, which is a component required for life as we know it, but that's only one component.

Yes, most was a poor choice of words. More accurate we cant live without it. Wonderful thing about water is it's utility, I can drink it, break it down into H2 and O for fuel and O to breathe. Why we are so keen to find it. I fully expect you know that ;)

Thank you for exploring the idea with me, a pleasant distraction from the work I should be doing.

Comment Re:Don't let Trump deter a useful distinction (Score 1) 106

An insight into your fear and ignorance might help others.

There would be no America you love without immigration. People back then, knew that, it wasn't a mistake, it was intentional.

A billion people is a massive migration, that just isn't happening, it's fairy tale nonsense to frighten children. And if it did happen, the best way to manage it is rationally and compassionately, not emotionally with fear. That's what happening in your country, immigration has been weaponised, been used as a topic to frighten you as it very evidently does. You see immigration as the end of your world.

When you are scared, and you are very scared, you are easier to control. Why would anyone want to control you? A very wealthy minority want to control you to protect and extend their power. It is always about resources, this minority want the best of everything and only want to share a little of it with their supporters. They are just playing out their survival strategy, a primitive and short sighted one.

What's motivating them is something very old and evil, greed. We are all selfish, ruthless and greedy to some degree, a minority are very selfish, ruthless and greedy and a reliable measure of that is how much wealth they have accumulated so far.

Immigration is not something to be scared of. It is something else to manage. Being ruled by the most selfish, ruthless and greedy is something to be scared of. Greed is like a cancer, all it wants to do is consume and it will until it kills its host. Immigration is being used to frighten you to enable greed to kill your country, it's not intentional, it's just human nature playing out.

What do I want? For you to show some American courage and not kneel to lesser men, ruled by a fear of not having enough.

Comment Re:why do leftists always support murderers? (Score 1) 106

Because it is barbaric and sadistic and a propaganda gift for recruiting terrorists.

I don't think your bigoted and brainwashed.

I think you are bit thick, mocking you is like mocking a retarded kid. It's cruel.

You'll forget about your petty crusade in 10 minutes and go back to pulling the legs of kittens.

Comment Re:Don't let Trump deter a useful distinction (Score 1) 106

You still breathing? Try stopping for 5 minutes, do it for your country, make it a happier, friendlier place.

You migrated out of the USA to the United States of Assholes a long time ago.

In the USA, land of the free, home of the brave, the statue of Lady Liberty has this written.

  "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Comment What is wrong with their code? (Score 1) 107

2,500 commits a day? Are they bug fixes?

Is it possible, by using AI, they have made themselves an impenetrable ball of mud , that only AI can fix?

No wonder they are surprised when their software does something novel like hack a government website. They don't know their own code.

That sounds like a dependency risk to manage for anyone considering vibe coding their own ball of mud.

Comment Re:Don't let Trump deter a useful distinction (Score 0) 106

... but you would be so much better looking and useful without your head.

And stoning you to death would be a blast. We could get the kids to join in. Put it on the socials so your disappointed family can see it.

Another American coward, bad enough having one as a president. Who's afraid of the big bad mid terms. Lol.

Time for true Americans to take out the trash.

Comment Re:Can I build my generation spaceship from this? (Score 1) 57

Yes . Make it very big I guess and have a lifeboat inside.

Maths and physics are not my strengths, but it seems one of the challenges of space are mass and fuel , you want something big to live in and grow food but then you have got to move it and your fuel has mass too.

If your mass is your fuel, like a human body when it goes into ketosis , that feels efficient, it works for us, we eat to top up our mass, some considerably more than others.

Frozen H20 has most of the things to sustain life too. Construction with ice in space, assuming you have the components is spraying some kind of structural mesh. Or start with a big lump and carve it out.

I am also not a chemist, but I assume a rocket is exhausting water , so my truck needs a trailer to catch that so I can spray it back on my space igloo and keep the walls nice and thick. Eventually we are in trouble, no change there, but hopefully we have got there by the time we have consumed our mass. ..and I am only on my second cup of tea. ;)

 

Comment Did they consider it toy really ? (Score 2) 100

I love slashdot for sending me off on interesting distractions.

I believe you are referring to the Hero engine, nicked by Rome from the Greeks and possibly by the Greeks from the Egyptians.

If my AI Summary is right.

It would be wrong to refer to AI as a toy as it would be to refer it to it as the bringer of an age of abundance and utopia as it is presently marketed.

Similarly it's wrong to call it intelligence, it is at best a simulcra of a sub set of features of intelligence. But even to call it that we'd need a definition of intelligence and we've blown the Turing test, by kinda cheating it with a clever parrot trained on the collective works of humanity, without its consent.

No it is not a toy. It hasn't been invented and marketed for play. It looks more like a weapon, a subtle knife, to achieve something very old and primitive, dominate knowledge, become the undisputable source of truth, a god that is really the Wizard of Oz.

Actual intelligent humans are rejecting that idea. AI content has been labelled dross and slop. Cheap.

Eventually we will get bored of people like me using it to pretend they are more knowledgeable than they are. The constant AI quoter will be treated like a "Smart Ass" though "Dumb ass" is more accurate as being dependent on AI is a dumb move painfully realised when your connection is offline.

On the upside when the bubble bursts, LLM is still a very useful niche tech and we'll have an abundance of spare compute power going cheap to use for something more useful in science and engineering than creating content for advertising and putting poor people out of work.

Comment Re:You're All Wrong (Score 1) 53

Wow! A touch of Gillian Anderson. Time *is* the fire in which we burn.

I regret my previous comment, and I am sorry. Aging is particularly hard on women in our world. Most men end up looking like a thumb with a beard option, nice and uniform and totally forgettable. I am currently sporting the hobo look, it goes well with my hobby of ranting in the pub like a prophet.

Least she hasn't gone down Botox road and turned herself into a duck billed gargoyle , but I suspect Brazil is on the way, if not already visited.

Peace to you sister.

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