The Straight White American Jesus podcast did a deep-dive on Thiel's thinking recently. It wasn't what I was expecting but then I hadn't previously been paying attention to him. Apparently he's all about tech-utopinism with himself as the King and no regard for the fate of his fellow non-tech-utopian human, as in his mind such people are just holding back human progress.
I haven't watched any of his Antichrist talks but I take it that he's not thinking of this entity in the Christian sense. Instead the Antichrist is a person with some amount of power who is trying to find solutions to mankind's problems using the tools of the old order, rather than through technology and its kings.
If the U.S. ever goes to war with a major adversary, one of the first waves of cyberattacks will likely target infrastructure that rarely comes up in discussions about digital threats: railroads.
For a long time I figured that was just the right way to do multitasking. Hook the interrupt and pass control to the next task when you are done. I also figured most of what I wanted was popup TSRs anyway - how can a human possibly pay attention to more than one program at a time? Makes me wonder how much my brain has changed over the years by being exposed to a multitasking and multiple windows on a large screen.
Having grown up in New England in the era, I remember "acid rain" being a big concern too. The polluters fought to keep anything from being done about the problem, but decades later some steps were actually taken by the US government (and others) and apparently there's been a fair amount of success.
I agree, now that "corporations are people" in the US it's hard to imagine being able to successfully battle them and force large-scale, cross-industry environmental-health measures to be taken. That is, unless it so happens that such measures maximize short-term profits in some way.
And more tape drives. But Space:1999's moon base still had a huge number of Blinkenlights and related gear that I have to believe was under an expensive IBM support contract. I wonder if the company found a way to get out of the contract? Some clause requiring the moon remain in its historic orbit maybe?
Here you go. This is the second time in the past few years that cat was used to process bikers in the NW WA wilderness. The first time was fatal. I used to live about 15min from where this incident occurred.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/cougar-attacks-cyc...
Not to suggest that the phenomena are necessarily related (though it wouldn't surprise me), there's also this:
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I'm somewhat surprised he didn't talk about evidence of space-faring ancient civilizations. If humans perish and a new intelligent species comes around in millions of years, they would be able to find stuff we've left on the moon, provided we pepper it all over its surface so as to survive any future meteor impacts.
12 people have been to the moon for about a total human surface time of about 6 days 17 hour mostly spent most of that time spent within a small radius near the six landing sites. and we haven't bothered to go back in over 51 years the number of tablet you would have to bury on the moon for a civilization as advanced as our to find one would be ridiculous you would essentially have to tile the moon in them for us to have guarantee we would have found one of them.
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter has mapped the lunar surface to, best as I can tell from a quick search, about 1m resolution. So I think a reasonably sized stele or 2001-style monolith would probably have been discoverable at our current tech level.
But we wouldn’t be able to detect human level lunar activity in a million years time.
We can barely detect human activity from 50 years ago when we know exactly where it is.
I think we are More likely to spot ancient Geostationary satellites, which will have drifted away from a perfect circle but should still be noticeable. LAGEOS aren’t in anywhere near that high an orbit but should survive 8 million years. They have a plaque on them designed by Sagan should a future civilisation find them.
But we haven’t put anything built to last on the moon - rovers and landing stages are very small and relatively fragile
A similar civilisation may have gone to the moon, but thanks to irradiation and micrometeorites over millions of years. Footprints and tyre tracks would certainly be gone, and while you could land at an Apollo landing site and detect remains of refined metal, it’s unlikely to be something you could see from orbit with our level of equipment, you’d have to get up close and personal, and we haven’t done that.
How long would it survive as a monolith on the surface before it would appear to be another boulder? How long until it is illegible due to micrometorite abrasions?
The “2001” monolith was heavily implied to have been explicitly buried. It was detected first as a magnetic anomaly, and when touched while exposed to sunlight it emit an enormous RF burst.
In other words, it was specifically protected from the elements, in a way intended to be detected only by a species at a certain minimum level of technological development.
I haven't watched any of his Antichrist talks but I take it that he's not thinking of this entity in the Christian sense. Instead the Antichrist is a person with some amount of power who is trying to find solutions to mankind's problems using the tools of the old order, rather than through technology and its kings.
https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/brad-unf...