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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How familiar are you with the year 1793?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure thing, Lord Kelvin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re treating scientific uncertainty as if it means “anything is possible.” It doesn’t.

  Except I’m not.

  I am treating things as if we are a species who barely has enough knowledge to send a small group of individuals off of the planet, and I am stating that while humanity seems to have a fairly okay ability to do that(and barely get to the next rock over), we probably shouldn’t be speaking with the confidence as if we wrote our masters thesis on interstellar travel. The moment humans stop having tons of massive scientific discoveries about space travel every year, that’s the point that we might have a good argument that it’s impossible for someone to escape a particular planet.

  At this point, we can’t even confidently say that we know what that planet is like. Hell, up until recently, they believed that planet couldn’t even support life.

  I am not questioning the laws of physics.

  I am questioning that humans’ understanding of them is complete.

  But you go on with your bad self, with your complete assurance that nothing will ever get off of that planet. The good news is that both of us will be dead before anyone even gets to know that it’s been tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how Earthlings assume that all of the variables on other planets would be exactly the same as they are on Earth, leading them to believe they have any idea about what other species might be dealing with on other planets.

  It’s cute.

  You do know that they couldn’t even estimate the functionality of the heat shield fo of our own planet? That they had to literally increase the angle of entry because they couldn’t accurately predict the behavior of a planet that they’ve been studying for all of recorded time?

  Are the laws of physics actually a thing? Clearly. But here’s the thing: The kinds of organisms that might exist on such an object could be absolutely massive compared to us. And for us to assume that we would have an understanding of the laws of physics that would be anywhere near as great as animals that might have brains exponentially larger than ours? And hell, the energy that might be available in such environments? We don’t know what’s in space around these objects, or whether there are any kinds of characteristics which would make unconventional (to us) means feasible to get off of the planet.

  For all we know, they could be scientifically a billion years ahead of us and might be able to manipulate time or matter in ways we couldn’t conceive. It hasn’t even been 100 years since humanity learned to harness nuclear power.

  No, there are too many variables. Life on such planets could evolve in countless different ways, and the different characteristics of the environment, and the resources on and around the planet provide too many options for us to be wrong.

  And before you respond that I am arguing against science, no, it’s actually your opinion that is arguing against science. History is filled with organisms finding unusual solutions for problems that were long deemed impossible to solve. And when people said “Well, I don’t think we have enough knowledge to make such a firm claim,” history is also full of people like you who insisted that there was no way. And history is full of people who walked into the room, picked up the rules as they wrre known to that point, and basically flipped over the game board.

  You are literally the person arguing that a scientific process is impossible given environmental variables because they don’t match the laws of physics.

  But you don’t understand that you are arguing not for the infallibility of those laws, but for the infallibility of our understanding:

  1. of the laws as we understand them

  2. of the chemical makeup and geography of the planet

  And all of that is not even to mention that the estimates of whether the planet itself was capable of supporting life have literally changed relatively recently because humanity developed a better understanding of science.

  If I had a nickel for every time someone proudly claimed something to be impossible because it hadn’t scientifically been done yet I would be richer than Elon Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We make a mistake by assuming that life forms would likely be at the same scale as us. Larger planets would likely develop life forms appropriate for those planets instead of appropriate for ours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the profit margin on the warranty is much larger than on the product itself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy when I buy a $3 product on some site and the site offers me a 3-year warranty for $20. No thanks, bro. I’ll take my chances that I won’t have to replace the item seven times within the next three years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In multiple shots (no pun intended) it is shown him holding a phone to record. Question is what happened to the phone and why not release his video?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *stole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The BBC found images of Zora while investigating the global trade of child sex abuse material, estimated to be worth billions of dollars by Childlight, the Global Child Safety Institute.

  You can tell capitalism is problematic when reporters feel a need to estimate the monetary value of child sexual abuse material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like if an author had a five year old why shouldn’t the kid get royalties if their parents is in an accident?

  Like I said, all it does is prioritize the desires of the dead over the needs of the living. It’s not justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the BARE MINIMUM of reason.

  There’s no reason IN THE WORLD for any kind of idea of “intellectual property” to exist once the creator is dead.

  NONE.

  It doesn’t benefit the creator in any way to have such a system where people can claim ownership of another’s work after death. All that does is deny the living things that could help them in favor of some ridiculous notion that you’re helping the dead; it’s asinine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antony Starr had to knock down 'The Boys' fans glorifying Homelander: 'This guy is not the hero'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Homeowners be monsters, y’all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it matters.

  I honestly don’t think it’s a meaningful question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe the microorganisms and food sources that life forms are exposed to have more of an effect on how the macroorganisms evolve than is currently talked about, which would explain why so many things in similar environments evolve similar traits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually comments like this which will scare people the hell away from trying Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frostwire is still available and it actually works better than Limewire ever did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Vagina