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Kubrik faked his death on a sound stage

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I like the way you’re thinking. I was actually thinking half the size of twice the solar system.

Isn’t engagement important though? I feel like if it gets people to read and learn about supernovae who cares?

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Twice the size as half the solar system?

What kind of natural event are you looking for? The atmosphere polarizes EM waves, binary stars polarize EM waves, debris disks polarize EM waves, supernovae apparently polarize EM waves...

Welp. That was an hour better spent than it otherwise might have been. Thank you!

I feel like we should use another unit of measurement

Wait! I can’t service here on earth in the mountains where I live. BUT WE CAN PUT IT ON THE MOON!

the proverbial end of history? :) the last 50 years have been all of my adult life.

this adaptation you dream of, societies lifeboat, will be boarded first by the elite and rich before finally being swamped by a billion poor fleeing a burning southern hemisphere

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The blast was the size of a solar system kinda crazy to think this is evidence of some sort of intergalactic war taking place and we are wittnessing their "atom bomb" events but they are wiping out entire solar systems for some reason...

Yes it is puzzling why it's called "The Cow". Hopefully science can explain that.

Antimatter is an excellent power source but think of it more like a battery, or an energy storage device than providing energy in and of itself.

You can collect some from radiation belts if you have efficient enough facilities, but your best way to create antimatter would be to have something like a dyson swarm collecting lots of solar energy to run a type of particle accelerator and continually collect the small amounts of antimatter it creates for storage.

Then you use the antimatter as an extremely energy dense and efficient portable energy source for things like space ships or deep space space stations in combination with fusion reactors.

I don't know, if you have time and robots, you could dig large holes and if you can make some kind of concrete out of regolith that might do the trick. It'll take years of constant effort that no human could do and involves tech we haven't invented yet, but tech we hadn't invented yet in 1960 actually got us to the moon.

My point is it will take a long, long time if it can be done at all and it cannot be done by humans working on the moon

You've missed previous half-a-century or so, didn't you?

He was trying to nuke Yoda, give the guy a break and let him bomb in peace.

prepare to die in the coming global climate diasporas

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For species we are interested in - we are that guarantee. For others - why should anyone care? Humans are priority. As for infrastructure: you probably aware we are demolishing and rebuilding it constantly anyway. Compare even modern roads with roads at 1900. As for culture - people change they culture constantly anyway. Any emigrant? Voluntary changed culture? Moved from a city to suburb? Change of culture. Gone to get college education? Change if culture. And cultures themselves are not something remotely approaching anything "constant".

It’s enough time to shut down generators if you know ahead of time you’ll only have a 30 minute window within a couples days time

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We’d see a spiral formation then, which would be distinguishable from an explosion along a plane

our infrastructure and culture hasn't had to weather radically sudden climate change. what provision will there be to adapt earth's other species for continued survival ?