Alien civilizations destroyed themselves through progress, study claims
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And what does that say about our own future? ;)
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Thread Safe Quantized Temporal Frame Ring BufferWithough having read your message...[^] I suppose it is true: Great minds think alike :rolleyes: ;) :-D
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If they are just going to guess, this theory is as good as any other, and a hell of a lot more melodic.
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No single factor is more important than the idea that intelligent creatures generally have a tendency that leans toward self-annihilation
Based on their sample size of 1, it must be true!
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And what does that say about our own future? ;)
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Thread Safe Quantized Temporal Frame Ring BufferDon't worry, humans are different. Greed will destroy them way before they make enough progress. :D
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No single factor is more important than the idea that intelligent creatures generally have a tendency that leans toward self-annihilation
Based on their sample size of 1, it must be true!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
The sample size is arguably zero; humans aren't self-annihilating. Progress has demonstrably improved our lives and reduced conflict.
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The sample size is arguably zero; humans aren't self-annihilating. Progress has demonstrably improved our lives and reduced conflict.
For a while... but, when something come, then it will be more devastating than what happened in the time without progress.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sen. Proxmire was right - NASA is overfunded. :sigh:
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The sample size is arguably zero; humans aren't self-annihilating. Progress has demonstrably improved our lives and reduced conflict.
I'm not as optimistic as you, I think our ability to heal is equaled only by our ability to do harm.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sen. Proxmire was right - NASA is overfunded. :sigh:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
William Proxmire should be dug up, reanimated or cloned, and then publicly executed as a traitor to his species. He and his ilk deliberately spent the late 70's through the 80's sabotaging NASA through deliberate politically-based mismanagement in order to abscond with any space-related budget for their own pork projects. :mad:
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William Proxmire should be dug up, reanimated or cloned, and then publicly executed as a traitor to his species. He and his ilk deliberately spent the late 70's through the 80's sabotaging NASA through deliberate politically-based mismanagement in order to abscond with any space-related budget for their own pork projects. :mad:
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delete this;IMO, your view of William Proxmire is only partially correct. NASA proved to be very good at extravaganzas such as sending a total of 12 men to the moon (it would have been 20, if Apollo 13 had succeeded and Apollos 18-20 hadn't been cancelled). It has proven to be very good at unmanned pure science missions. Where it has failed utterly is in the use of space for commercial purposes - the only commercial use of space has been for weather and communication satellites, which do not need an organization such as NASA for their launch and support. NASA's plans in the '70s and early '80s were mostly more of the same - a (planned) extravaganza such as sending men to Mars, a space station (SkyLab) with no real purpose, etc. Even one of NASA's successes - the Viking landers - was tied into the Bicentennial celebrations (Viking 1 was supposed to land on 4-Jul-1976). If we compare and contrast to the history of aircraft, we find that while lighter-than-air aircraft were invented in the 18th century, it took a new technology and almost 200 years for aircraft to become commercially useful. Tethered balloons were used in the US Civil War as observation posts, but that was almost the only use made of them. At no time were significant government funds involved in the development of commercial aircraft. We are now seeing the beginning of the real use of space, where people go to space for economically viable reasons rather than military reasons or national pride. SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, etc., while money-losers at present, may one day be remembered as the true beginning of the Space Age.
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