Retiredtoflorida

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[–] Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How about and environmental and economic collapse caused by ai, while fighting WW3, leaving us helpless to combat the next pandemic.

Because the project was started thousands of years ago, and then just kept going on autopilot. If that species still exists their priorities would have changed, and they would already have thousands of years worth of data. They let it run because they couldn't be bothered to turn it off.

[–] Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Mick Wests own words: "Mysteries remain. What the pilots who reported engaging a giant flying Tic-Tac saw is still unidentified, as are the objects in several other incidents. The causes of ghostly or rapidly moving radar returns are likewise, in many cases, unknown — although since the system is classified, if it's a system glitch or inadequacy, then the Pentagon isn't going to tell us.

We'll also continue to have no good answer for many photos and videos, simply because the object shown is too far away for whatever camera is being used. But "unidentified" means just that. It does not mean advanced technology."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mick-west-are-ufos-here/id1169885840?i=1000524224097

[–] Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Their deaths aren't that big a surprise. Look at human history and pre history. It's always the same story, poor sanitation, environmental degradation, corruption and climate.

Look how people responded to covid.

I strongly recommend two books by Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and steel, and Collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns%2C_Germs%2C_and_Steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed

 

We know how we are handling space exploration. We send robot probes. So once you get good at space travel. You set up automated factories on an asteroid and just churn out probes. Scattering them all over the universe looking for radio waves, nuclear explosion and polluted planets.

Imagine what it must have looked like to the swarms of interstellar probe cruising between the stars, when we detonated Ivy Mike or when the Russians detonated the Tsar Bomba. They would all come running like moths to a flame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

I feel I should point out that the civilizations who did this are probably long dead or just don't care what the probes found. After thousands of years they are gone or have moved on. The probes are just on auto pilot.

[–] Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That is so fucking funny. An ai generated piece of slop, pulls numbers out of its ass and decided only 1/3 of Americans are having existential crisis. Life has reached a level of absurdity that it reminds me of the 1985 movie Brazil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

[–] Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just remember, used sporting goods stores are a great place to find reasonably priced body armor for use during the food riots.