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maskedpaki t1_jayb2dz wrote

Reply to comment by TinyBurbz in Security robots patrolling a parking lot at night in California by Dalembert

Yh and when it's disabled it sends an alert for a human to come in person. The idea isn't 0 humans in the loop. It's put these in the majority of a site area and have a smaller number of humans at a control center.

I'm guessing youve never worked in security. Most security guards don't do anything other than alert more senior members. I've worked security and can tell you a year can go by doing nothing more than sending a message to a security manager when something goes wrong.

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Llort_Ruetama t1_jat3jks wrote

Reply to comment by StarChild413 in Figure: One robot for every human on the planet. by GodOfThunder101

I guess for story purposes, I think even the concepts of beginning and end, of start and finish are based on human perception of space and time so are irrelevant when proposing ideas about the coming to being of creation.

Existence has no requirement to fit our understanding. We could have been entities which existed in higher dimensions, but were put in the toy box of 'space-time', and in the blink of an eye from the higher dimension have generated what we consider to be reality out of the concepts of language and pattern recognition.

The big bang could have been the opening in which the higher dimension remnants poured into the toy box, and everything that came forth was a consequence of those elements attempting to reform the nature of the higher dimensions, while being limited by the constraints of space-time.

Of course that's all speculative, but I think that's part of the joy of life, speculating. Science starts with a hypothesis, so we must keep in mind that speculation is actually the beginning of science.

(Rigorous practice, analysis and critical reasoning of the data collected is of course the body of it.)

  • TL:DR; I'm procrastinating other work, so I've spent too long enjoying the thought of alternative realities.
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flyblackbox t1_jaszex0 wrote

Reply to comment by Nastypilot in Figure: One robot for every human on the planet. by GodOfThunder101

The biggest things I can think of, born in 1987.

We had to make phone calls from a phone connected to a wall at all times and if you weren’t there to answer the phone, too bad. There was no cell phone service, or World Wide Web until about 1995, and only a few people even had email in the early 90s.

Trying to navigate to a physical location was a either a guessing game or literally looking at a map and trying to figure out where you were, where you were going, and running your finger across the map to see what roads went that way. If you didn’t have a map, you had to stop and ask for directions where someone else would tell you how many turns to make or what landmarks you would see on the way.

Oh and to learn any fact, you had to either know someone knowledgeable on the topic and ask them or physically go to a library, hope that had a particular book on the topic and that someone else hadn’t already taken it out before you got there.

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