On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 7:17 PM Lawrence Crowell < [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. >> > > > Taiwan is becoming the "Berlin" of the second cold war. > It's even worse than that, West Berlin did not mass produce a vital ingredient necessary for the world economy to function, such as cutting edge semiconductor microprocessors, but Taiwan does. I just hope Xi doesn't have a temper tantrum now that Nancy Pelosi has visited there. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> nix -- 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/CAJPayv3BSvP_wEV4rG%2BiduUprENZ1HcFCbWBvaaEz%3D6RuKwuoA%40mail.gmail.com.
