After two decades of work, engineers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are celebrating the completion of the world’s largest digital astronomy camera ever.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Why not invest the biggest research center to improve food safety and eliminate the need for processed food. The biggest housing systems to eliminate homelessness. You get my drift
Why not invest the biggest research center to improve food safety and eliminate the need for processed food. The biggest housing systems to eliminate homelessness. You get my drift"
No I do not get your drift and it makes no sense whatsoever if you think about it.
There is no "need" for processed food, I would think, and homelessness can be fixed by building homes, or placing the homeless in vacant properties -- there are many more vacant properties than homeless people at any given time in the United States so the problem is not related to a shortage of homes:
https://todayshomeowner.com/general/guides/highest-home-vacancy-rates/
Mankind so far? Other than discovering the infinity of space?
Mankind so far? Other than discovering the infinity of space?
4/19/2024 9:27 PM
Are you a troll? You have to be a troll. Even elementary school kids know about all the benefits. Try google, it has a long very long list. Better yet just try and think about....how could space exploration benefited my life? Try that before you even go to google. In fact next time you have a question about life in general do this. I
For example, the Apollo moon program led to advances in microelectronics and computing, which of course were in many ways far more valuable than any money spent on the program. This is part of the reason that silicon valley is so important today, relative to all other technology centers in the world.
But on an individual basis, of course, progress in technology also might be related to globalization, depletion of various resources and military conflicts related to that, military threats to the United States, social media threats to Democracy, internet pornography, fake news, job loss due to automation and AI, various stock and housing market bubbles and crashes, proliferation of WMD and asymmetric weapons such as drones, etc.
So, yes, it is entirely possible that technological progress could have various negative repercussions for many people. A historical example that might shed light on this, is the rapid progress in the early twentieth century. During that period, of course, airplanes were developed, cars were mass produced, there was progress in metallurgy, wireless communications, electronics, medicine, and ultimately the development of nuclear energy and weapons, development of chemical industries, measurement devices, optics, and so on. In particular, oil production rapidly grew, as did the provision of electricity to homes and industry.
Yet of course, there were two world wars that came out of this, the Holocaust, a stock market crash followed by the Great Depression, it led to both Communism and Fascism, and so forth. And the use and development of various forms of WMD, including chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, mass killings and genocide of various religious and ethnic groups, Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and also the Armenian genocide is another example, also numerous atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese (Unit 731 for example), communist Gulags and killings, etc etc.
Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, published a critique of technological advancement and the dangers it poses back in the 20th century, but he was also a supporter of the Nazi's in Germany:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/is-heidegger-contaminated-by-nazism
https://theconversation.com/heidegger-in-ruins-grappling-with-an-anti-semitic-philosopher-and-his-troubling-rebirth-today-200826
https://youtu.be/gaVmEN-vGWk?si=GGORlyahz3ZysFDI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
The question concerning technology, Heidegger concludes, is one "concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of the truth comes to pass."[7] In other words, it is finding truth. Heidegger presents art as a way to navigate this constellation, this paradox, because the artist, or the poet as Heidegger suggests, views the world as it is and as it reveals itself.[6]
The ratio of people dying in wars vs total people has been going down for hundreds of years. Every example you pointed out is wrong if you look at the actual numbers which you refuse to do. Again, think, do some statistics before you post.
On this point Heidegger was wrong. If you look at all the numbers in terms of longevity, reduction of violent deaths per every 100000, income and so on everything has gotten better with technology. All the numbers are out there.
"his paradox, because the artist, or the poet as Heidegger suggests, views the world as it is and as it reveals itself"
Sounds good, but is there any reason to believe this is true?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Morgan
Prior to her flight on STS-118, NASA seemed to limit Morgan's exposure to the press, but she did a series of interviews shortly before the start of the mission about what the crew of STS-118 would be doing to help build the International Space Station,[10][11][12][13] commenting, "You know, there's a great sense of pride to be able to be involved in a human endeavor that takes us all a little bit farther. When you look down and see our Earth, and you realize what we are trying to do as a human race, it's pretty profound."[14]
Also there are valid criticisms of his thought, but for better or worse his ideas have been very influential, they are popular at American universities for example :
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-destructive-impact-of-cultural-heideggerianism/
And yes, of course he was a Nazi, and there has been recently a great deal of anti-Semitism at some top American Universities, of course, most recently Columbia.
There is certainly an incredibly long list of 19th century wars by the way, many of which you may not be familiar with even if you are a student of history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1800–1899
There is no doubt that these killed many people for example the American Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Taiping Rebellion, which many Americans are no doubt, not familiar with but in which many people died:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
Certainly however, the two World Wars were incredibly destructive over large parts of Europe and Asia, there was the Holocaust, the rise of Communism and Fascism, and so forth as I mentioned : it is not controversial to associate this with the various technological developments of the early 20th century.
"By the way many people don't know this, but many years after the Challenger disaster, NASA did eventually put a teacher in space,"
They also wanted to put bigbird in space.
Many people don't know this but Reagan is kinda responsible for getting Challenger crew killed. He wanted the Challenger to in space for his state of the union address where he would talk to the teacher Christa McAullfe live. They had all sorts of warnings about the flight but did it anyway because Regan needed that moment.
Oh well.
https://youtu.be/kvLMH0wb_0k?si=AWFnJVd5V0CFXaia
Following that of course, the government created programs to raise cheese production, and privatized the cheese stockpile.
The statistics show that cheese consumption has skyrocketed which may be one reason why many Americans are overweight:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/183785/per-capita-consumption-of-cheese-in-the-us-since-2000/
The US exports vast quantities of cheese as well, and is a major cheese importing nation too, although the monetary value of cheese exports exceeds imports:
https://trendeconomy.com/data/h2/UnitedStatesOfAmerica/0406
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