Given that the process of evolution - a blind and brainless process - produced humans, it seems obvious that humans could produce an intelligence greater than our own. There is no such thing as a “spark of creation” - as a species, we have created innumerable artificial things. There is obviously no theoretical…

While I agree that super-intelligent AI is not currently a threat, I think it’s dangerous to start pretending we know how far away it is - It may very well be “centuries”, or it may be decades. Humans have never been good at predicting their own future technological progress; a mere two centuries ago, the idea of…

As someone who bought a (2020) Kia Telluride SX with Premium package for MSRP in September 2019, I can tell you that (a) it’s a great vehicle, but (b) no way I would have paid $79k for it. I paid $46k for mine. I know Kia raised prices for the 2021 model year, but that dealer is insane - for that much money, get an…

Exactly. It's important not to confuse the people who pander to idiots for profit with the idiots themselves. Tucker plays an idiot on TV, I'm assuming in real life he's not completely moronic, and he absolutely already got his vaccine. I wouldn't be surprised if you paid off a private doctor to keep it a secret lol

And I had been so hopeful that the younger generations weren't as gullible as their predecessors. *Sigh* Gullibility never goes out of style.

She reminds me of Astrid from the show Fringe (also a complete cutie pie).

That’s a really interesting gif. What sort of extendable pole is that? I've never actually seen anything like it.

I always appreciate a good hitchhiker’s guide reference! And while I agree wholeheartedly with your suggestion of a nuclear-electric ion thruster probe (since it is the best technology we have in the near term), I wouldn’t want to see this gravity-assist/chemical-rocket interstellar probe canceled in the hopes that a…

I don’t think he was saying it would be a nuclear engine, it would be a nuclear power generator that supplies electricity to an ion thruster. The same sort of thruster that propels the Dawn probe that explored Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt. It’s a very viable technology. I don’t agree with his larger point that…

>”increasing the chicken’s internal temperature by as much as 60 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 16 degrees Celsius)“

Excellent, thank you for digging these up. I've just now gone and tweeted these exact tweets back at each of them, with the appropriate swap of Texas for California, and Republican for Democrat. 

And to be clear, this couldn’t be powered by your body heat anyway, since the (not real!) chip would be in your bloodstream, with equal temperatures on all sides. Creating an electrical potential requires a temperature differential; you can’t extract work from a uniform sea of warmth, which is what your blood is, seen…

This inventor, Pais, seems to just inject the word “quantum” into his sentences, possibly to distract from the fact that they are nonsense.

Hopefully enough people turn around and spend the money that it benefits some of the small businesses that have been suffering. Not that $600 is enough to really help most people, I think. F'ing McConnell.

>”...thanks to these heathens.”

To the extent that all that is true, liquid-fuel ballistic missiles are still more problematic and require more pre-launch time, and are more vulnerable to boost-phase ABM systems, than solid-fuel boosters. There’s a reason that the two nuclear superpowers have moved almost entirely (or entirely at this point) to…

Subsidies for COAL??!? Wow. Ballsy. Coal is a dirty, polluting fuel that worsens climate change more than any other energy source. Mining it is dangerous and unhealthy, transporting releases coal dust in residential areas, burning it releases mercury and vast amounts of CO2.

Ha, perfect commentary on this.

Neither Apple nor Amazon have any sort of social-media platform, and aren’t a significant source of news for people - with both of them, users are the customers, not the product. Google, on the other hand.... there is a reason Google’s search is free (along with maps, and GMail).

Yeah, man, these stupid experts, what do THEY know about anything? With their science, and their numbers, and their “evidence”, what a bunch of hooey. Clearly, Trump’s raging gut knows better.