sure, as soon as i can afford it after i pay for all my medical stuff. someday.

Nuke it from space! It is the only way to be s...

Oh, yeah, I don’t mean to be at all dismissive of the havoc that a solid hit from a big CME might wreak.     Just responding to the implication in the article that it would be raining jetliners.  

The fastest CMEs get here in 15-18 hours, which is on par with the longest single nonstop flights. However, I wonder how many flights are realistically more than a few hours from a diversion airport, and the longest such allowed is 6 hours (ETOPS 370). I think you’d have to be taken quite unawares to be unable to get…

This is why I’ve limited my smarthome. I have TP-link Kasa devices. None of them are on the internet. The app works over wifi, and if that fails I have the ability to control them through a windows script or Home Assistant... or just hitting the on/off buttons by hand. I also like Govee bluetooth devices for their…

every time i see speculative information on this kind of event, it’s always from a very ableist perspective. i can be prepared for a little while without power (i live where i get both bad hurricanes and outages due to ice and snow), but not months. if/when this happens, millions will be seriously harmed and millions…

Destroying the earth is probably far easier, and like 7 billion humans are already helping.

In terms of simply shutting things down to prevent worse outcomes, California deals with this every year during fire season. More generally, there are wide swaths of the world where electricity is not an always-on, taken for granted thing. Modern utility companies of course won’t want to proactively shut down and…

Stephen got it wrong. The comparison isn’t the pandemic, it’s a hurricane or nor’easter. Ever try to buy a snow shovel when the forecast is predicting the snow to fall by feet?

Because space is lumpy. We use the speed of light to measure distance, but in a way that’s like using the speed of a runner to measure distance over land. That runner has to travel up and down hills, through mud puddles, sometimes not in an exact straight line. In the universe, there are gravitational inconsistencies…

One of the downsides to “smart” homes is the devices often don’t have any redundancy built into them (i.e. like the Texas power grid; it can handle normal use, but it catastrophically fails for anything greater than normal use).

“in the days leading up to the pandemic really taking hold in the United States” is the key phrase here. Did you have any issues buying toilet paper in January 2020, before, and when, the first case was found in the US? I sure didn’t. Did you have any issues in February 2020 when it was confirmed to be spreading to…

 Planes might crash into one another, as they’re essentially flying blind.

...a sun-like star 100 light years away called EK Draconis literally just launched one of these things...

If they’re showing concept images, why do they show devices that look less comfortable than what’s currently available? How tight are those straps to keep those massive goggles plastered to the faces of those unfortunate souls? Unless Sony actually discovered some new anti-gravity technology, and has decided that the…

Pretty much the same type of PR style images/videos they’ve had for all VR/AR since the start :)

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