Imagine the implications for things like space travel if you could siphon power off a few stars and power an absurdly large thruster, without the weight penalty of carrying all of the fuel.

They make these crazy things nowadays called clothes. You can put them on your body, and it actually traps in the heat that you produces to keep you warm. I know it's hard to believe, but people all over the world go outside for longer than ten minutes, and they don't die.

Because it's a tremendously stupid recommendation, at least for people living in the US.

I'm practically a best case scenario person when it comes to this sort of thing, living a mere 5 miles or so from work, and even I couldn't trade my vehicle in for an ebike.

For most of the year temperatures here are either in excess of 90 to 100 degrees, or well below freezing. Even if you're comfortable with a lengthy ride in the heat, around half the year is simply too cold to ride something like that comfortably.. and about a third of the year is too cold to ride safely.

Happy to see I'm not the only one thinking about this. I'm gonna take a stab at it.

First, I think the U.S. still has some runway, for the following reasons: 1) It's still a popular place for immigrants. If the smart ones manage to build lives here, this country will continue to be the leading standard for innovation and quality of life. 2) Despite the terrible state of American politics, there are still plenty of reasonable people to give us a chance to return to common sense. 3) U.S. law is still unbelievably unique in its allowance for people to pursue whatever good things they want (career, family, etc.). Of course, major generalizations here lol.

Canada is attractive for its easier immigration policies and similar English Common Law. However, with the way its parliament is looking right now, it's a tough one. But hope is not lost. The country is somehow churning out some of the best minds we've seen in our lifetime.

In terms of national power, China is one to look at for the next 10 years, IMO. But I'm no expert, so I'll stop there.

Europe is a tough one, but I'm rooting for southern and eastern Europeans. They're not entirely woke (yet), and places like Poland and Germany are still popular. But their abysmal birth rates are stressing them out. And I'm not too familiar with their laws to say how accommodating they are.

I'm quite optimistic about Australia and New Zealand. Immigration is quite easy, nice quality of life, reasonable education.

For me, I'd be looking at immigration trends: moves to NA for reasons already stated, to EU to replace their declining population, to AUS (I know its a popular immigration spot for south and southeast Asians). My guess is that the future belongs to immigrants.

Scale, my man, scale! Imagine if we could pull energy directly from the Sun to use on Earth. It would take longer than the lifespan of the solar system for human needs to draw enough energy from the Sun to have even a 0.1 percent impact on the energy level of the Sun.

Or decouple existence faster and faster into an entropic muting because it's actually a vacuum that pulls from another universe, and the more energy that's grabbed from there the more it enforces its universe's stronger deterministic nature and overrides ours into an incompatible atomic cancer.

I have read EPC and O&M contracts and EIA for my and rarely do I find decommissioning plan layed out in the states. Europe has much more firm grasp on tackling recycling than we Dos

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I thought that we would do that using interdimensional wormholes and large capacity batteries but this is probably more efficient.

Idk but I'm feeling pretty good about being in Michigan.

I've literally never heard it in that context. So whatever man lol go be miserable and run from opportunities to grow yourself in the name of comfort.

Now I'm imagining our sun randomly getting extinguished due to aliens somewhere else draining that bitch.

This is absolutely a project that would have merged with a SPAC in 2020 and hit a $50 billion valuation.

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>>We certainly don't need to create challenges and force them on people

Ironically, that is exactly what climate change is doing to millions (billions?) of people.

I mean, I work at a city hospital and I see at least 20 employees come in by bike every day, even in the ice, snow, rain, etc. Since they do it voluntarily, I doubt they feel they're suffering.

Me, I walk to work. In all of the above weather. I just wear layers. No appreciable suffering.

That was the plot for a Stargate Atlantis episode. The other universe came over to stop it.

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Meet the car that no one will own in the next 20 years...

> There's no other options available to them.

BUILD

TRAINS

You mean like this?

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The average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day.

As long as it's not, like, Houston or Phoenix, it should be fine for biking.