Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: ​> ​ > > *What if nanotech *is* the filter? Then, the civilizations that survive​ > ​could be the ones that avoid that trap somehow.* ​ If Drexler style Nanotechnology had been developed anywhere in the galaxy that fact would be obvious by

Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:15 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: ​> *​* > *The Climatologists have pushed the worst-case scenario for 30 yeas.* 30 years ago they said if we don't do something drastic in 10 years it will be too late, well if it's too late

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

I keep trying to implore the prospect that mega-tech programs most likely do not scale in the linear fashion you keep advocating. There might be nanobots or von Neumann probes in this galaxy if they remain small or modest in dimensions. This would most likely be the prospect I should think. As

Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: *​> ​you have casually exaggerated based on the imagined policies of > strawman environmentalists.* ​Environmentalists claim to occupy the moral high ground but they have one hell of a lot to answer for. They managed to get DDT banned in 1972

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 9:32:10 AM UTC-7, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > I keep trying to implore the prospect that mega-tech programs most likely > do not scale in the linear fashion you keep advocating. There might be > nanobots or von Neumann probes in this galaxy if they remain small o

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: *> There are bacterial flagella and Eukaryotic flagella. Bacteria flagellum > is a single polypeptide chain. It is connected to a protein that protons > are pumped into. This induces the rotational motion

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

Lawrence Crowell > *> I keep trying to implore the prospect that mega-tech programs most > likely do not scale in the linear fashion you keep advocating.* You keep saying it does not scale but you don’t say why. Life has certainly scaled ​ beautifully​ , it started with one small creature, all

Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating

What energy systems would you reco? Exclusive even of GMO chat etc.. -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 1:12 pm Subject: Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: ​> ​ yo

Re: Neural networks score higher than humans in reading and comprehension test

However, challenging the “comprehension” description, Gary Marcus , PhD, a Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, notes in a tweet that “the SQUAD test shows that machines can highlight relevant passages in text, not that they understand those passages.” On

Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating

On 2/16/2018 10:12 AM, John Clark wrote: 107 Nobel laureates sign ​ed a​ letter ​strongly criticizing  Greenpeace over ​its mindless opposition to all forms of ​ GMOs ​: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/29/more-than-100-nobel-laureates-take-on-greenpeace-over

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

Systems do not often scale linearly. I can't answer how the complexity of astro-structures would scale. To answer that definitively would require a bit of research and calculation. Even life has scale limitations, which is one reason Godzilla is not realistic. LC On Friday, February 16, 2018 a