I read science research every single day. The researchers involved are, ever-brilliant, as to be expected. But, I am always haunted by the words of Princeton physicist Gerry O'Neil, where he said, "scientists tend to overestimate the impact of breakthroughs, and underestimate the impact of straight forward extension of the knowledge we already have."
So for example, we may obtain a breakthrough in fusion plasma reactors, but impact-wise, it may never bring commercial fusion any closer. Plasma driven spacecraft derived from fusion experiments, yes, lighting homes nope. For civilization, proving O'Neil's point, I'd look to wind at sea turbine farms, and home rooftop perovskite solar. On Sunday, January 17, 2021 Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> wrote: There are molecules that already do this. DNA and polypeptides are sequences that are in effect codes. LC On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 12:28:18 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: "How do you get from chemicals to code? How do you get a code without designing one?" "What You Must Do to Win The Prize You must arrange for a digital communication system to emerge or self-evolve without "cheating." The diagram below describes the system. Without explicitly designing the system, your experiment must generate an encoder that sends digital code to a decoder. Your system needs to transmit at least five bits of information. (In other words it has to be able to represent 32 states. The genetic code supports 64.) " https://www.herox.com/evolution2.0 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4bae6b73-6a2a-4213-8744-b0e82e23c65cn%40googlegroups.com . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1733744554.2808307.1610930257125%40mail.yahoo.com.
