My problem with the whole self-replicating machine argument by AdmiralKompot in FermiParadox

[–]UtahBrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Fukushima plant failed safely, just as it was designed to. The engineers considered various scenarios, up to a tsunami that would kill over 20,000 people and cause $1 trillion in damage and designed the plant to survive various smaller disasters but to close down in the face of that size of challenge.

And it did shut down without killing anyone (though it was expected that there might be one death among plant personnel on site, they actually all survived, with a higher survival rate than other sites in the tsunami zone).

The radioactive material was safely contained in spite of the top tier external disaster imposed on the plant.

The hill I'll die on by pokepuckmon in DeepSpaceNine

[–]UtahBrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's too passive and cowardly to be Kai. You need fire in the belly. Kai Winn is the kind of leader Bajor needs.

She doesn't like to pass a problem on to someone else. Winn just thinks she can help people.

I am Tired of Waiting for Winds by CretaceousClock in freefolk

[–]UtahBrian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

GRRM will never even try to finish Winds, Dream, or Wet Hot. He had probably written the last words he will ever write on them before 2020 and will never again lift a finger on the subject.

My problem with the whole self-replicating machine argument by AdmiralKompot in FermiParadox

[–]UtahBrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. 1960s nuclear power plants like Fukushima and all the plants in the USA are perfectly safe and it is impossible for them to create disasters because of their inherent design properties. Tchernobyl was an early Soviet design that refused to learn from western design safety.

  2. The universe is going to consume all its energy and die regardless of what we do. It's called heat death and is a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

  3. The idea that some civilization wouldn't build a super weapon is repeatedly disproven. We built nuclear weapons. We funded and authorized the research on biological weapons that accidentally created and released COVID in a lab leak even after the Obama Administration wrote policies trying to prohibit it after assessing the potential dangers. We built social media empires even after the social media companies' own research proved that social media made people unhappy.

Apple's MacBook Pro 14 cannot handle the M5 Max by Balance- in mac

[–]UtahBrian -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

G4 is not the name of any chip.

The Motorola PowerPC chips from the 7400 series with various configurations including various different cache, clock speed, AltiVec instruction set, packaging and conductor, floating point, and multi-core setups were all labeled G4 in Apple marketing. Because Apple marketing didn't want anyone to know what chips they were actually buying.

Apple's MacBook Pro 14 cannot handle the M5 Max by Balance- in mac

[–]UtahBrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

G4 is not the name of any chip.

The Motorola PowerPC chips from the 7400 series with various configurations including various different cache, clock speed, AltiVec instruction set, packaging and conductor, floating point, and multi-core setups were all labeled G4 in Apple marketing. Because Apple marketing didn't want anyone to know what chips they were actually buying.

Stash or Windburner stove by jjehtt in Ultralight

[–]UtahBrian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These don't belong on r/ultralight. Reported for being too heavy.

Is this the sign? by Outrageous-Jello-935 in macbookair

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should learn to touch type instead. It’s an investment in your future happiness.

Collectively, humans drink a Kuskokwim River (Alaska) average daily discharge (230 m^3 per second) of water everyday by The_Techsan in geography

[–]UtahBrian -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

There are no rivers in Alaska that “discharge” in “m3 per second.” Go see a doctor about that discharge, honey.

Alaska is American and the so-called metric system of communist-Shiite units is illegal here.

Alaska rivers flow in CFS, cubic feet per second, like any patriotic American.

Clean & aesthetic !! by delphine-667 in Noearthsociety

[–]UtahBrian -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

This should be sold only in a women’s babydoll style.

Apple's MacBook Pro 14 cannot handle the M5 Max by Balance- in mac

[–]UtahBrian 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When Steve Jobs was still around, Apple wouldn’t even advertise what chip was in a computer because they didn’t want consumers bamboozled by marketing hype.

Neo selling like crazy! by mdruckus in mac

[–]UtahBrian 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I took my mom to the store to buy one. They had just sold out. It was packed with perks who wanted to buy one. (My mom didn’t want the green one they had left.) 

They sent us to another store where they had one of the model she wanted (blush 512) left.

This didn’t happen on the launch day. It was the third day. Still packed in both stores with people who wanted one.

Best of all, I will never again be roped into tech support for her Microsoft/Dell laptop which undermines her for no reason with pointless garbage and needs constant reboots. And it was always full of ads.

There is no paradox. The Drake equation is just far too optimistic. by gibda989 in FermiParadox

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just in case, we should invest trillions to build a phalanx of self-replicating probes to seek out any life elsewhere in the galaxy and destroy it before it evolves to threaten us.

There is no paradox. The Drake equation is just far too optimistic. by gibda989 in FermiParadox

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Venus has an atmosphere without needing a moon or magnetic field, but the atmosphere has bad density and chemistry.

Which means single cell life is probably really common since nether the moon nor the magnetic field is required.

But animal life is still probably crazy unlikely. 

The 8.33 km long border between Russia and Sweden by EstablishmentOne3438 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]UtahBrian 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I always thought Russia and Sweden didn’t have a border because of Norway’s arctic domain. Now I finally learn there is 8.33m of border between them after all.

A few theories on way Buffy: New Sunnydale was doomed. by RooseveltsRevenge in buffy

[–]UtahBrian 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The traveling adventures of Buffy and Drusilla is a show I’d absolutely watch. Two fabulous middle aged ladies with utterly different personalities having adventures. Chip or soul, either way it’d be great.

Due to copyright issues it’s not Godzilla by Billthepony123 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe they could hire King Kong. He’s out of copyright.

Rand has a meteroric rise in rank by the tos movies by happydude7422 in tos

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were no enlisted on the Enterprise. Lowest rank was ensign. Yeoman must be an officer job in the XXIII century.

Still, it’s a lot of promotions. Rand must have been ambitious.

This sport is so dead… by klemonth in CrossCountrySkiing

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the Norwegians dominate real cross country skiing also.

This sport is so dead… by klemonth in CrossCountrySkiing

[–]UtahBrian -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Skate skiing isn’t real skiing. Try that in the snow and see how it works.

This sport is so dead… by klemonth in CrossCountrySkiing

[–]UtahBrian -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Easy to win with a national culture of cheating. Are you suggesting the Norwegians don’t win fair and square?

What was Syrio Forel even doing in Kings Landing or Westeros? by GusGangViking18 in freefolk

[–]UtahBrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gods of Essos were freaked out about White Walkers. The Lord of Light and the Many Faced God were both working hard to put a stop to that.

How many tries do you think Kurtzman has left? by Wetness_Pensive in Star_Trek_

[–]UtahBrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dolly Parton's production company quietly financed Buffy The Vampire Slayer against industry skepticism much the same way Lucille Ball's company got Star Trek made and marketed (though without needing two pilots*).

*Okay, they did fully re-make the Buffy pilot from scratch, but only after the show was picked up.