On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 7:06:14 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 9:44 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > *> What's this? Talk of no star travel whilst we are very near to >> producing the mighty Bussard Ramjet to cleveth the night sky with a mighty >> roar! Actually, I think all the fusion power stuff may be uneconomic >> (unaffordable) till our AI is fast enough to cut through the maths in >> diverse areas of science to make it cheap enough. BUT, it will be peachy >> keen for interplanetary travel. For Dyson Sphere's yeah, we do the solar >> system (descendants) and then red dwarf stars which are said to last some >> 2-10 trillion years. I visualize these as some sort of very long holiday, >> for some reason? * >> > > That is a very ambitious plan but I see no scientific or technological > reason that would make it impossible, however there might be other things > that could prevent it from happening, Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan could > be one of them. That's why I hope she doesn't go. Nobody knows for sure > what will happen if she does decide to but the possible risk doesn't seem > worth the possible reward. You might say that China's threat is just a > bluff and maybe that's true, but are you willing to bet your life on it? > And the timing is particularly bad, China's economy is stalling and this > fall the 20th Communist Party Congress is supposed to give Xi an indefinite > extension of his role as leader, so Xi needs something to make him look > strong and get the people's mind off pocketbook issues, ramping up > hostilities against Taiwan could do that. We already have one hotspot in > Ukraine that could lead to nuclear war, we don't need another one in > Taiwan. > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> >
Taiwan is becoming the "Berlin" of the second cold war. LC > > awt > > -- 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/e8b905a7-75b9-4009-af89-5da6a4a877ccn%40googlegroups.com.
