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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 1, 2015 at 7:05 pm
(December 1, 2015 at 7:00 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: (December 1, 2015 at 6:56 pm)dyresand Wrote: If we find life outside of earth and i mean bacteria of any sort that will mark the end of well bronze age religion as we know it
and something more reasonable will come a long.
What makes you so sure? The devil will be planting that evidence, don't you know?
Theists don't even have any evidence of their god or their god boy or even satan for that matter.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today.
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 1, 2015 at 7:15 pm
You don't need evidenz when you got faith.
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 1, 2015 at 10:10 pm
It's all perspective.
You can choose to look at every advancement as a new leap, as a new achievement on the spectrum of scientific accomplishment.
You can choose to look at the simplest advancements as the first building blocks toward a great future.
Or you can choose to look at advancements as nothing too surprising, which you could do at any point in history, at any time. It's pointless.
I think a pretty amazing field right now is computing, because quantum computers are starting to be developed and are somehow already developed, yet we still hardly know how they work, and very few people even are able to understand the technology enough to create it. There are quantum computers located in a university[unsure, think it's in florida]and there is also one in NASA. Two.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 2, 2015 at 5:07 am
I think we should be more aware of the problems the development of AGI poses. It's one of the greater risks we face, and it's unpredicatable how fast we'll get there too.
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 2, 2015 at 6:37 am
(December 1, 2015 at 6:15 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: (December 1, 2015 at 5:58 pm)Kaiser Wrote: Hmmm.
Room-temperature superconducting springs to mind. As does true cold fusion. Anything on that level and upwards :3
Hmm.
Why on that level and upwards?
To my mind, these are things that would forever change the world. I'd think quite a lot of people would be amazed by it, if the correct PR was applied.
Stuff like discovering life on other worlds - or even a signal that was verified to be artificially made and from outside our solar system is a given, of course.
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 2, 2015 at 6:52 am
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Yeah, Kaiser, but why? I googled it but I still don't get it. Ok, I got that cold fusion would allow us to harvest the same amount of energy we would from a star - I think. But what about that other thing? How would that help?
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 2, 2015 at 8:01 am
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(December 2, 2015 at 6:52 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Yeah, Kaiser, but why? I googled it but I still don't get it. Ok, I got that cold fusion would allow us to harvest the same amount of energy we would from a star - I think. But what about that other thing? How would that help?
Imagine all (low frequency) circuitry operating basically losslessly. For instance, you are used to having to power an electromagnet continuously or otherwise it immediately demagnetizes. It wouldn't do that any more, you would simply short circuit it and the current runs on and on. Lossless wires. One might even use superconducting coils as superfast energy storage.Those are just off the top of my head
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RE: Wondrous times, less wonder.
December 2, 2015 at 9:17 am
(December 2, 2015 at 6:52 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Yeah, Kaiser, but why? I googled it but I still don't get it. Ok, I got that cold fusion would allow us to harvest the same amount of energy we would from a star - I think. But what about that other thing? How would that help?
Sorry, I should have been clearer. My vocabulary is nowhere near good enough to articulate all the uses, but basically all of the uses that superconductivity has today, except without the massive costs needed to cool the systems and keep them that way. Massively improved power transmission, much faster computers, more sensitive scientific instruments, the list goes on and on. Plus it could be used as a foundation for many future technologies that currently exist only in the theoretical. It's worth reading up on, if you want something techy to salivate over 
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