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Me: "Mom, can we have New Star Trek?"

Dune Mom: "You have Old Star Trek at home"

Old Star Trek At Home

TrashFuture has hit on a few new attempts at Killer App firms, but it's all Mindfulness this and AI that.

I think the last app I downloaded was an AI art app, which I used maybe twice.

Oh man, what do Boeing and Astrobotics have in common?

Can't seem to keep all their lids shut.

given the age of the Universe and the relatively short time it would take for an advanced civilization to spread across the Milky Way Galaxy (650,000 years, by Hart’s estimate), Earth should have been visited by an extraterrestrial civilization (ETC) by now.

It took humans 30,000 years to cross the Atlantic. Using modem propolsion systems, it takes us two years to get to Mars and 40 to reach the edge of the solar system. This seems like an extremely generous estimate considering the Milky Way has a 50,000 light year radius.

I'm as bullish about extraterrestrial life as anyone, and I think a fuller survey of even just the current Solar System has potential. But I have no idea how you get a full galactic survey in so short a time, given what we know about the soft limits on speed of travel and communication.

By Tipler’s refined estimate, an ETC would be able to explore the entire galaxy in “less than 300 million years.”

That definitely feels like it's more in the ballpark. But, again, it presumes a certain amount of steady cartography by the hypothetical fleet of Von Neuman probes.

There's a Sci-fi series called The Bobverse that explores the idea of a sentiment fleet of Von Neumans exploring the galaxy, and the various trial and tribulations involved. One point it discusses is that even with a saturation of probes, you don't get real time communication. So even in a hypothetical universe where alien life did exist and survey earth, what are they odds they'd be watching us at the moment of our development. What would an alien AI be looking for and what would it do when it was discovered?

We could still be too primitive to bare noticing. Or we could be living in between blinks of an alien camera that only reports back every 1000 years.

As we look out at the cosmos, we could be looking at things we don't understand. After all, what does a star surrounded by a Dyson Sphere look like to a telescope that is searching for glimmers of light, heat, and gravity? SETI is operating purely on conjecture. That's assuming alien civilizations are even capable of creating these hypothetical superstructures. Or that the structures would function as we intuit.

At some level, I have to question if we know what we're looking for. Because so much of this feels like we're searching for humans deep in space. Perhaps the reason we can't find aliens is that they are simply... too alien.

Picard was already bordering on elder abuse.

Going to the B-roll footage of Apocalypse Now to deny the existence of Vietnam

That's why 25 year olds in software are making 250k in the US

I know a few folks in software in the US, and the lion's share aren't making $250k/year. The ones that are all have Masters/PhDs and are leads/specialists in the Top 20 industry leaders. I don't know who you're working for that pays a quarter million per code-monkey flailing at python, but if there's a job opening that pays this well please let me know. I've got over 15 years experience doing big boy shit for a Fortune 500, and I'd love an extra $100k/year.

The best way to get promoted is to change jobs every 3-6 years.

We have bread lines, we just call them check-out queues and traffic jams.

We have concentration camps, we just call them detention centers.

We have a military dictatorship, we just call it the Joint Chiefs

Nice try, but everyone knows timelines only impact hair below the earline.

Adding 30 years to a cast that was already in their 30s/40s when the original aired was hard enough with Picard, when the people were supposed to look like people. And that series wrapped last year.

Curious to see what they do with the remake, but folks aren't getting any younger.