Recent comments in /f/Futurology

Self-Medicated-Dad t1_ja9fyw2 wrote

It's going to be used as jet fuel?! Well, fuck the maintenance crews further then. Like benzene wasn't enough to worry about.

I can't wait to see the air emergency that forces them to fuel dump over civilians. Or the crash with toxic plumes that makes first responders hesitant to approach.

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AlphaWolve2 t1_ja9ez0x wrote

Get two magnets and push opposing sides together and then watch one violent flip so it can attract, like that… Now imagine a dog shaking water or fleas off its back, everything on the surface will go flying off some right out into space and everything else crashing back down to earth including you!!!! Zero rate of survival…..

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Zestyclose-Ad-9420 t1_ja9ebaw wrote

Temperature difference: only work during the night. Or the day, which ever's easiest.
Moon dust: a constant electric charge to create static.

These things are technical issues. Very difficult ones. But the last few hundred years hint that if you take some egg heads and throw money and give them time, they will probably figure it out. Now give them supercomputers and nanomaterials as well.

The real problem, time and time again, has been working with the constraints that our governments, economies and cultures limit us with when it comes to distributing energy for problem solving.

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OsoRetro t1_ja9dzbj wrote

I’m not on a quest to figure out animal brains. The relationship is for me. Science has proven it’s good for me. My dog will eat his shit if I don’t stop him. I realize how his brain works. If you’re suggesting dogs don’t love that’s BS but Thanks for the science.

Yay for robots and all that shit, but AI dogs is gonna be a hard sell for a lot of folks for a very long time.

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HiddenCity t1_ja9dr0n wrote

Are the catcalling construction guys a victim of their jobs increasing their testosterone? If we made a bunch of insurance agents work construction for a year would they start to feel the biological compulsion to yell "why doncha smile?"

/s

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Courtside237 t1_ja9dqfx wrote

Every car on the road automatically switches to reverse. Every plane in the sky turns upside down. People will begin wearing shoes on their hands and going in through the “out” door

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DxLaughRiot t1_ja9dh5c wrote

I’m trying to say we can’t even figure out perfect something as simple as “don’t sexually abuse children”. That was supposed to be easy!

More what I’m trying to say is it’s naive to think that with as messy and complicated life is that anyone will ever agree on a universal moral framework. Humanity has tried to for millennia, and typically what happens when people try to trot out their new super awesome objective morality is that people go to war over whether it’s right or not.

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Amazing-Ad-669 t1_ja9dfqg wrote

I'm not a scientist, but I've read it can be as simple as recalibration of gps instruments to mile-high tidal waves.

In any event, probably won't be alive to see it.

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