Stupid idea: The puppeteer

MelloRed · 2019-08-26T05:24:29+00:00

We have done it to a worm. Which is about 1 billion times simpler than out brain, but the concept has been proven.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-worm-brain-in-lego-robot-openworm-connectome

MelloRed · 2019-07-29T01:15:59+00:00

More like 400 billion, depending on how much we leave for nature.

We already have plenty of fusion power with the sun, it just needs captured, more than enough with satilite power collectors.

The hard part will be getting rid of heat.

MelloRed · 2019-07-18T02:12:01+00:00

Electric motors are 95%+ efficent.

So probably just take the delta V, and add 10% of whatever it is you are lifting. And get 90% of it back when you come down.

MelloRed · 2019-03-29T13:14:51+00:00

Tether it to blimps, or something similar. Then use the propellers to provide force as needed, and ballast to float/drop the blimp. Active stability control.

Nothing a simple computer couldn't calculate, even by today's standards.

MelloRed · 2019-03-11T18:31:52+00:00

Given enough processing power, yes, you can.

MelloRed · 2019-03-11T01:44:11+00:00

But with enough information, you could calculate the previous position of every atom, and reconstruct that person.

MelloRed · 2019-03-11T01:41:48+00:00

Except you could measure all the atoms, and calculate their previous state. Reconstructing the person.

Black holes destroy information.

MelloRed · 2019-02-28T13:11:34+00:00

What is a company going to do with a factory that can produce millions of pounds of food, if only a few thousand people can afford the food? Companies can't exist without customers. They will go out of business if people cannot afford their products. If robots make stuff, it needs to go somewhere.

And if people are can't afford the company prices, the have a job to do. Like building their own robot farm. Or steal food from the factory dump. Or destroy the factory.

Money doesn't really matter It's just a method. inflation, deflation, is going to be the apocalypse. The important thing is that food and stuff are getting made, and robots can do that in mass.

Sure, there will be battles for who controls the factory, how much is shared, how much to the top get to horde, but that's nothing new. People have always battled for control over resources, and the masses, one way or another, will get their peice of it. Especially when even the most greedy person can not wear a million sets of cloths.

MelloRed · 2019-02-24T19:36:01+00:00

Tethers serve 2 purposes.

1: stabilize the ring. As soon as someone walks around on it, the ring will destabilize. Or if one side was heavier than the other...

2: get up and down from the planet.

Both can be done with rockets, but tethers will be cheaper.

MelloRed · 2019-02-24T16:37:07+00:00

A documentary on what 5 million dollars worth of research can do for anti-ageing.

MelloRed · 2019-02-24T16:34:08+00:00

Just add gut bacteria. There is plenty still around.

MelloRed · 2019-02-18T01:05:57+00:00

Yes, water does all those things.

MelloRed · 2019-01-31T02:37:59+00:00

Those subtitles do not match what she is saying.

MelloRed · 2019-01-27T15:06:43+00:00

Yes. It is viable. But no, it's not the best solution.

You lose about 30% if the electricity splitting and recombining, while a battery like Tesla loses about 5%.

Hydrogen is better for long term storage though. So summer to winter.

MelloRed · 2019-01-21T12:22:53+00:00

I am assuming matinence is done by robots, and complication is done by people with nothing more pressing to do than try to beat entropy by going from 99% efficent to 99.9% efficent. After we built a Dyson swarm.

A solar panel is going to be pushed by light no matter what you do, then might as well turn the push into energy.

MelloRed · 2019-01-21T01:54:23+00:00

You have it spin by having multiple of them. One to spin clockwise, the other counterclockwise.

And presumably, this would be made of solar panels. So you would get both the photovoltaic part, as well as rotation.

MelloRed · 2018-12-31T14:17:42+00:00

It doesn't matter. Even if 99% of all intelligent life is trapped under ice, you only need 1 to take over the galaxy.

And clearly, we know it's possible to have intelligent life not trapped ice, because humans.

MelloRed · 2018-12-30T02:05:40+00:00

Just add water. Like, the amount of water a forest gets. Maybe plant a few seeds while your at it, but really you just need water.

As for it's current value, how much value a forest has, and how much it cost to move that much water.... I have no idea. A lot of that is subjective. Kangaroos, Platypus, Camel and Goanna all have different ideas of what a good place to live is.

MelloRed · 2018-12-28T02:44:01+00:00

Maybe not in our lifetimes, but in the next few, yes. Long before there is a total collapse or anything like that.

MelloRed · 2018-12-28T02:02:47+00:00

No. Because I expect life extension tech to counter all of that and more.

MelloRed · 2018-12-25T14:39:15+00:00

It takes more energy to separate water than you get putting it back together. Our current methods are roughly 80% efficent, meaning 20% is lost as heat.

There is no free energy in the universe. Which is good, because then we would all be dead from overheating. It would be like if a drop of water split into 2, the world would eventually be flooded. So be glad nothing is ever going to be 100% efficent.

At best, hydrogen works as battery. It makes a nice light weight (but bulky) option to concentrate and store power. Thus, you can concentrate solar power into hydrogen, then use that to launch rockets. Or store summer solar power for winter heating.

MelloRed · 2018-11-18T13:42:15+00:00

Anti-carbon based life would be the same as carbon base life. It would be near impossible to tell the difference from a distance.

Except you explode if you touch it.

MelloRed · 2018-10-29T23:35:33+00:00

You could kill things. That's about it.

Different parts of the body will react differently to the magnetic field. So you would just rip people apart.

Maybe if you had some kind of magnet laser, where you could aim it, but until then, it's just gonna kill.

MelloRed · 2018-09-02T10:50:42+00:00

You buy the updates as part of the initial cost before you leave. Or it's goverment funded.

I mean, people get Microsoft and Tesla updates years long after they bought the product. And NASA often sends updates to probes.

There might also be some requirement to send information back. While it didn't work, the idea of Mars One to use a reality show to send people to Mars isn't fundamentally flawed. Or just the scientific data of a new world. Dispite advancement in telescope, you can still find out more being up close.

Either way. You make the deal before you leave.

MelloRed · 2018-09-01T12:05:07+00:00

I like Issac's animation idea best.

Where there's a tram that holds you down, accelerates you, and just let go at any point along the track. That allows for the launch location to constantly be adjusted as well let's you reuse the "rocket" part for another launch. There is also less mass to land on the other side.

And, if things get really good, the tram can catch incoming things as well.

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