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 Discussion on answer by L.Dutch - Rei…

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Bald Bear
Nov 11, 2019 01:39
what is sattelite is painted black to avoid detection? And there is a bunch of small sattelites rather than one large one?
 

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Bald Bear
Nov 9, 2019 06:15
Pluto has surface temperature of 33 Kelvin, and it is close enough to the Sun to orbit it. I think 33 Kelvin is pretty close to absolute zero. Maybe have your planet orbit a star at medium distance, so there is some heat, but no tidal effects like on Mercury.
Bald Bear
Nov 9, 2019 06:15
Without a star, wouldn't the planet freeze to absolute zero over long term?
 

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Bald Bear
Nov 6, 2019 10:48
would cold-war experiments with psychotropic drugs count?
 

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Bald Bear
Nov 1, 2019 01:14
The unknown chance of malfunction is similar to what explorers and other sailors faced before radio and weather forecasts. It did not stop them from sailing. Same will be here. Expect same culture to emerge: if you can die tomorrow, you might as well engage in every possible sin today.
 

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Bald Bear
Oct 25, 2019 05:43
did you mean wormhole? I.e. a gateway to some distance place in our space, or a parallel universe? You can store stuff there, and maybe there is a energy source there like a nearby star
 

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Bald Bear
Aug 3, 2019 11:05
You are right to pick male semen. Female semen has very few nutrients.
 

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Bald Bear
Jun 22, 2019 06:07
The "TLDR" section is much easier to read. Use it to ask a new question. Have one specific question: like which metal to use, or how could it be made. IMHO, nobody in medieval or modern times can make nanobot weapons, no matter how ingenious they are. If you want a single AI sword in the world, have it dropped in by aliens or time travelers.
Bald Bear
Jun 22, 2019 06:07
Your Q seems out of scope: you want us to come up with new ideas, while we here prefer to predict consequences of your ideas. You need much better grammar and punctuation. And finally, if you want AI that learns and improves wielder's own martial art style, then metal weapon is a wrong path. Make it an armor or a jewelry item (helmet, necklace, etc.) that is infused with nanobots that penetrate wielder's body. And nobody in medieval setting can make anything like that, it would have to come from future or aliens.
 

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Bald Bear
Jun 22, 2019 02:45
It might be more efficient to burn plants (after they dry out), or burn their sap, and use heat like in a standard coal- or gas-burning power plant. It will even be sustainable, since all the CO2 you release was previously absorbed by plants from the air. Would that be OK?
 

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Bald Bear
Jun 21, 2019 08:40
I vote to reopen. The linked question is fundamentally different from this one: there, people in simulation have to figure it out for themselves from within the simulation. Here, somebody outside the simulation tries to show the truth people inside the sim, overcome their skepticism, etc.
 

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Bald Bear
Dec 7, 2018 06:56
@Shadowzee: No, if a random someone releases the video, and it is known that such videos are easy to fake, nobody will believe it. If CNN releases this video, some people will believe it, but others will point out that Putin and Trump's schedules (which are public) have only a few opportunities to meet, and all of them were in known rooms which do not match the room in the video., or the clothes they were wearing at the time. Which would make CNN ratings drop, so CNN would never post it in the first place.
 

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Bald Bear
Nov 14, 2018 20:24
You should consider making a rule that the other hand should be kept out of the hand, e.g. behind the back. Otherwise the finger will never penetrate the defense provided by the other hand.
 

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Bald Bear
Oct 15, 2018 18:50
Liquid Nutrition is definitely possible, even in humans. E.g. this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement);
 

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Bald Bear
Sep 27, 2018 12:59
I do not know enough for a proper answer, but it could be a hit from a small but fast object, going perpendicular to orbital plane of planets. It should knock enough material from the sun, and disperse it over in a cone on the other side. The object would have to be sturdy enough to survive passing through the sun, fast enough to knock material out before it can cause subtantial gravitational effect on planets, and heavy enough to knock out enough material. A black hole comes to mind, but what would make it go so fast, and aim it so precisely?
 

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Bald Bear
Sep 26, 2018 14:45
Good answer. To illustrate the second paragraph: gecko does not have the "hardware" that is powerful enough for intelligence. You cannot run videogames on a basic handheld calculator, and you cannot run "intelligence" on a gecko's brain.
 

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Bald Bear
Sep 25, 2018 20:34
what about rain? Do you want it falling out of the cloud or not? B/c that can be hard to avoid, and can be pretty disruptive in the long term ...
 

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Bald Bear
May 21, 2018 18:47
if dragon's scales are heavy as stone, it will barely be able to fly. Square-cube law would really work against the large beast like you describe.
 

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Bald Bear
May 5, 2018 16:31
It is very hard to prove causation with observational data: we do not know what would have happened if Romans built their road elsewhere. Prosperity came from trade, and that is very dependent on geography: mountain passes, river fords, sea harbors. At the same time, road crossing can give rise to a new city, and an established city can persist for a long time
 

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Bald Bear
May 2, 2018 03:44
delete genes responsible for enlarged brain cortex. That's the hardware that runs the intelligence software.