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Being vulnerable is not the important part. They have been vulnerable for years. The problem is the probability of being exploited. If everyone knows about the exploit details before a proper patch is available the number of exploited systems will skyrocket
How a nanoprobe (required by the propulsion solution) can send data back to us from >10 ly away?
Some reference material that can be helpful https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-3
The baton is passed forward, not backward.
Prove that they were right by making the same attitude yours.
That's the best gratitude to be received. Especially when you are not young anymore. Proving that what you did was not in vain but it had a good impact on people and it will outlast you.
What about going logarithmic with time? The more it's in the past the more errors are forgiven. Explained in another way use the relative time difference (diff/(now-value)) to compute the score and not the absolute time difference
Starship can be used to release a probe with gigantic fuel reserve and a bigger than usual energy source (solar or nuclear). Then the probe can use a VASMIR or other electric propulsion to gradually accumulate a vast amount of delta-v
That's an orbital-velocity ballistic trajectory.
And that's sub-orbital. Barely
"The payload is data." Elon The data they get from the test and they focus on getting the most and most valuable data. This is an explicit choice. A physical payload at this stage would reduce the overall value that they are able to get from a flight.
We know physics very well.
We should tell it to physicists ;-)
That was the same in 1700s. Laws of mechanics were well known and they were convinced that it was just about getting better in using math with it.
Then electricity and magnetism emerged.
Then nuclear physics and quantum theories and relativity.
And we know very well that they don't match up.
And we have anomalies all over in our measurements and no good theory to explain them.
But just using "known" physics theories we have warp drives and warmholes and quantum teleportation.
Going to the moon was something impossible and we accomplished it.
Before the same was for flying or going deep underwater.
Do you need more examples to get some fate?
- Circular economy.
- Food production with low resources consumption.
- Distributed, low-scale production with high efficiency. So no need for high consumes to keep high production efficiency.
- Implementing renewable energy and the concepts listed above from the ground up in every aspect of life. That's scarcity, harsh environments and need for you together with bright minds.
- And many many things that we can't even imagine from here.
“war is over, if you want it”
The problem is the "if you want it". That's for most of the unsolved problem we have on earth.
If you keep failing generation after generation maybe you need to change your point of view to understand how small we are and as we are not much different each other and from other living things.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
That's not it if you discriminate between linear and circular polarization. You can use a phase inversion mirror to do it. That's the point of the experiment.
It wluld be interesting to send one beam alternatively throught a linear or circular polarizer. Then you can check the polarization on the other beam and see if you have faster than light information transmission. With all the implications about causality.
Maybe process informatic is functional programming
Most if not all these supposed dilemmas are the author missing to account for the aftereffects.
Organ harvesting: How bad is the fear in every healthy person for risking to be harvested? Healthy people are much more that people in need organ transplants. How that fear condition their life. Is range generated? With what effects on in need organ transplants?
Framing the innocent: If the action from sheriff comes out and don't get punished what's the effect in people that that fear to be framed for no reason? What's the effect for people losing trust in justice? If you need just a temporary guilty just fake it as long as you find the real criminal or you improve the situation with other means. Obviously situations abstracted from the context and for others lines of actions lead to absurd solutions.
Deathbed promise: Considering the aftereffects of this case are so complex that giving a clear response is quite complex at best.
Sports match: Just save the person and let the other people know that they helped to save a person in need. Gratification will be much more that annoyance for short interruption and memories for that extraordinary events will be good too. If the person was just experiencing a little distress for the latest minutes of mood landing just let him experience it. Utilitarianism let you balance different situations.
Cookie: If we are talking about cookies who care. If we are talking about reward we can balance two things: - a gentle act toward a mad person can have much bigger effects - letting people know that good people get rewarded can generate more good people and more good with time
The Professor and the Serial Killer: Professor do good mainly with his work and with his personal life. Charity is only a small part. How being a lawyer would affect this total outcome? These more money he earn come from somewhere. What's the total effect?
Excess altruism: An altruist get joy from helping others so giving the cookie to Sue the total pleasure is maximized.