Would not be surprised if this is used as a pretext for Trump to ban travel to and from certain African countries.

Bandwidth is a term that applies to many things other than internet access. The amount of data that can be transmitted is important for any application. The most logical applications are controlling robotic prosthetics, and supplying sensory input for the the deaf/blind.

So I’d be able to have Lightspeed Briefs adverts streamed directly to my brain? Shut up and take my money!

Just say no to connecting your brain to your easily hackable phone.

It’s actually more like $5.38/bomber. There are about 122 million Americans paying federal income tax. You can’t use the full population of a country to calculate each ones share - many of them don’t pay taxes because they’re too young, too old, or too poor. The person you were replying to is still backing the better…

Jesus Christ, do you really think this is all the issue boils down to? And if you want to amortize costs, do you have any concept how much $2 per capita would buy if we spent the money on something useful, like education, infrastructure, or medical care?

Yeah, that’s definitely not how this works.

If I see a red fucking hat, it’s open season on the motherfucker wearing it.

I believe the episode was called Robot Jox.

Space exploration isn’t really comparable to the Age of Sail.

The cost difference between human and robotic missions is so enormous, though, that it makes it hard to justify sending people if you can otherwise send more and better robotic missions (and they are getting more capable). 

I dunno. I don’t think a fully robotic space program would get the same funding levels as NASA does today, and that would weaken NASA’s political power within the government (leading to future funding cuts). There’s a romanticism to human spaceflight that makes Presidents and Congress reluctant to cancel it outright…

Space exploration is a worthwhile endeavor.

Weird, isn’t it?

This comes pretty close to being a duhscovery. Thick, light-dimming pollution interferes with solar panel power production? Color me shocked! Nice to have numbers attached, I suppose, but this could probably have been done in a few minutes given any good solar irradiation data set. A very similar study was release by…

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I’ve seen estimates as high of 15% of Polish labourers volunteered which is a fairly large number. Other countries probably have similar numbers depending how economically depressed they were.  It worth noting that many countries had their economies crippled by German Occupation and often weren’t in good shape to…

I’m sorry where did you get that “many volunteered”. Majority of them were, as the name suggests “forced” to do labor. The adults and kids were forcibly abducted in the occupied countries like Poland, Belarus, Ukraine,Russia, Czech\Slovakia and other Eastern European countries and shipped over to Germany to do hard…