I guess the hard part is that you can't use any materials there to construct anything. Nothing in the foreseeable future would be able to survive a trip to the surface and back. So everything would have to be extraterrestrial. With Mars or a moon colony, the thought is that you could mine raw materials from the surface and use them to construct things. Venus doesn't even have a moon you could mine.

Or just get over it. People have been photoshopping celebrity porn for over 20 years, and that's been fine. Have their lives been damaged in any measurable way? Absolutely not. The slippery slope we'd have to climb on to create legislation around. This is not one I ever want them to go down. Is your life really affected in any substantial way if someone made a digital representation of you that was getting Eiffel towered? Nope. Everyone knows it fake. For that matter, you're not going to be the target of this unless you're a celebrity or a politician. (Basically some kind of public figure) If they start making Barack Obama porn, a lot of women will probably be happy about that.

Yeah, the story of how the first AI process was developed is quite fascinating actually. It wasn't on an analog computer at MIT in the 1960s. The actual process is simple.

Was entry level when the dot com crash happened. For 6 months I couldn't find a job. Everyone was saying that in the future every single software job was going to be in India. Why have it anywhere else? Everyone drew lines parallel in it to the manufacturing industry and pointed out that everything is made in China now. I was convinced I was going to have to switch careers and that software in the US was dead. And then it wasn't, and then I ended up making more money than I ever thought I would make.

It turned out all those stories about every single tech job going to India were wrong. Now I'm hearing all the same people say all the same stuff again. I'm skeptical this time around.

It's just clickbait. Look at a chart of total tech employment over the last 10 years. There's a huge surge especially from 2015->2022. Then there's a small drop. Employment levels are still higher than they were at the start of 2020 in tech despite the total USA workforce having shrunk by hundreds of thousands of workers in the same period of time.

I mean, if I ever end up on a dating app again, I'll probably use one or two of my Lensa photos.

This is just clickbait. No reasonable person who chose to send a bunch of photos and pay money to an AI that generates a bunch of images of them and privately sends them to them to post, delete, or whatever genuinely has a problem with a couple of provocative photos coming back. Yes, maybe a few unreasonable people do, but we don't need to bend reality for unreasonable people.

Mostly. They've already proven it too. Right now they are building their next generation reactor that will actually produce power. The last version demonstrated the release of energy correctly.

The one step that will have some consequences is creating the helium-3. The problem with smashing two deuterium atoms together is that neutrons can't be constrained by a magnetic field. That reactor will likely need more maintenance as a result. We could try to capture the neutron with some sort of modulator. The problem with beryllium is that it's extremely rare and typically has uranium inside it in low quantities. This uranium accumulating neutrons will create radioactive waste.

The second process can be completely contained with a magnetic field.

Helion has a plan to create helium-3 and then use it as a fuel source.

Basically it works like this:

1. they use a process to extract deuterium from the ocean. (Vapor and electrolysis, this is easy enough)

2. they use a dual plasma mechanism to slam two hyper heated balls of deuterium into each other. This fuses and creates helium-3 releasing a neutron which can be captured with a beryllium blanket making this process mostly energy neutral. (Some production) alternatively, this can just be moderated in water so as to not have any nuclear waste.

Note: Some tritium is also created, but this can be easily captured by mixing it with oxygen and letting this water vapor decay with a half life of 12 years into helium-3.

3. they then use a separate reactor to slam two mixtures of helium-3 and deuterium into each other creating helium-4 and spitting out a proton. The proton pushes back on the magnetic field creating power directly without the need of a blanket or steam pumps. The loose proton finds an electron and is just hydrogen.

I was going to add a bunch, but I realized this is just 2022.

I mean if life somehow evolved to survive in sulfuric acid, it would grow to require it.

On one hand, oxidation is deadly to organisms. On the other hand, the reactiveness of it is a great resource for generating energy.

"Molecules containing Oxygen". O2 is wildly reactive. It doesn't stick around long.

It seems like the most intuitive source for all the oxidation on the planet.

Well, the question is where did it come from? Oxygen is highly reactive, even in space. We also know that mars had a liquid ocean and a magnetic field once upon a time. Earth was like this too with almost no oxygen in the atmosphere for millions of years. During that time, life was evolving. Eventually some microorganism evolved photosynthesis and proliferated rapidly with seemingly limitless energy, abundant CO2 and no competition. This caused a massive swing in a geologically short period of time from nearly no oxygen in the atmosphere to oxygen being very plentiful as it was essentially a waste product of the process.

The high reactivity of Oxygen made it toxic to nearly all life on earth causing a mass extinction of most organisms. The ones that evolved to tolerate it survived.

On Mars, there's no proof that such a process happened, but I think it did. I believe photosynthetic life existed on there for millions of years. After it all died off, the oxygen gradually reacted with the surface and carbon in the air until O2 levels were mostly gone.

Uh, why is it red then? I was under the impression that the iron rich surface had oxidized to give it that color.

Well, make no mistake, the "new money" people were scamming a community of gullible people online. Them going to prison and losing everything is good.

I mean basically what they were doing was taking small volume stocks, scrounging up a whole bunch of activity from these random people online to buy up a ton of it after they already took on a healthy position and then quietly sold it.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. If a public figure telling you to buy something so they can pump it up and then dump it is a crime, how the hell is he okay? Is it the "entertainment" disclaimer that makes it all ok?

I was doing a deep dive on this. I think fuel is going to be a limiting factor and production of it. Essentially a fusion engine just fuses hydrogen into helium. You need Deuterium and Tritium and fuel for this (hydrogen with one neutron and hydrogen with two neutrons). Producing a small amount for a test is one thing, but to produce this fuel at scale for a reactor to power a city is a problem. Also the actual energy generation is an issue. They used to use Beryllium as a neutron moderator to generate heat, but they have a new method now.

I mean I've owned the pixel 2, 3, 5, and now the 7. I also owned the nexus 1 and 5 before that.

I've owned the Samsung Galaxy S4 active and s7 active as well as the original Samsung Galaxy (1).

I agree, I much prefer a Google phone mostly because they don't have any of the bloatware on there.

That already exists. The Galaxy Z flip 4 is basically a normal sized phone that you can fold in half.

You can't compare power usage of a x86 core and an ARM because one was designed for high performance, and the other was designed for low power consumption. It's also why every cell phone uses an ARM processor.

It's like comparing the fuel economy of a Ford 350 and a Prius. Sure, if all you want to do is drive around town, the Prius will get you there just as fast, and it'll do it for 1/3 the gas.

Seems like breeding them would be financially great. Don't they lay like hundreds of eggs?