Your podcasts with Greg Cochran are quite possibly the most interesting (interesting stuff per minute) audio I've ever listened to.
Thanks!
Readit NewsInteresting points, though the abstract is quite hard to follow. I guess it makes sense:
1. aliens spread at a certain speed after developing spaceflight
2. they're not here
3. there are no spacefaring aliens in the galaxy currentlyHanson doesn't think (2) and (3) follow because of the possibility of panspermia. It's possible that our galaxy is the only one in a billion light years that has given rise to life, but there could, because of panspermia, skill be a high probability that a planet in our galaxy outside our solar system has life. See this podcast Hanson did with me: https://soundcloud.com/user-519115521
jamesdmiller commented on The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) golem.ph.utexas.edu/categ... · Posted by u/woopwoop
Unless he was born on February 29th (good luck getting that drink at a bar), reading after only hitting two birthdays is the stuff of legend.
That said, having been told so by a genius, I feel like I'm now unshackled, ready to pursue a life of mathematics as a non-genius.
Children with hyperlexia can often learn to read before they are two. I personally knew a children who before the age of two was reading.
no because expansion only happens on the largest scales
But if I travel for 45 years at 1-g doesn't the largest scale of the universe become significant to my travels?
Does the expansion of the universe reduce how much you have to slow down if you wish to land on a very distant planet?
jamesdmiller commented on There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here fakenous.net/?p=2365... · Posted by u/erwald
How ridiculous the ET assumption is depends on the amount of plausible alternatives. And for the Nimitz encounter to be something mundane, several very different things must have glitched or been missinterpreted and one has to put how ridiculous THAT would be into perspective.
Yes, if it's aliens or a 1 in 10,000 glitch it's the glitch. But if it's either aliens or three such independent glitches, it's likely aliens.
jamesdmiller commented on HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users twitter.com/internetofshi... · Posted by u/minimaxir
Honestly I'd rather them not send an apology email... because then I'd have two useless emails. And in the grand scheme of things, it's literally just one more email I receive during the day.
HBO should email everyone to give us all the choice of whether to get an apology email.
Can you provide an example of a past technology that was unimagined by mainstream physicists and that was sucessfully implemented in secret and kept secret for decades?
I can't think of anything.
Fission bombs were widely believed to be physically possible, were developed in secret but used publicly within several years.
I do not beleive the military has some secret antigravity, inertia modifying technology or warp drive of whatever.
These things always start with basic physics. There is no known basic physics to support such things. Therefore it is extremely unlikely that the military simply developed them from theory to implementation in secret.
The ability to break the Enigma code might qualify. German scientists, I think, considered it unbreakable.
jamesdmiller commented on Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel uni-goettingen.de/en/3240... · Posted by u/mrrazz
There is a cool calculator of what happen if you travel around with constant 1G acceleration.
Long story short: to travel to Alpha Centauri it would take for the traveller still about 4 years, and when back at home, people would have aged only some months more than the astronauts.
Crazy things happen if you decide to go on galaxy-wide trips though, to the astronauts because space contraction they perceive their own trip as happening still rather quick, a 100 000 ly trip (the size of our galaxy, for reference) takes 22 years for someone inside a spaceship with 1g acceleration, perfectly doable. But people outside still see it taking 100 000 years... (meaning they will be 100 000 years "older" from the point of view of the astronauts)
After I found all this out, I concluded space travel isn't THAT hard, assuming you have a way to accelerate constantly at 1g for 22 years (that is the hardest part actually), you can get anywhere in the galaxy in a human lifetime, no need for generation ships, cryogenics or other crazy tech.
In fact even going to other galaxies is easy, a trip to Andromeda takes 28 years!
Mind you, all those calculations were done assuming you will burn at 1g until half the distance, and then burn at 1g to brake, if you don't brake you can get even faster to places (although that wouldn't be very useful I guess).
According to google the universe is 93 billion ly wide. If you accelerate (and decelerate later) at constant 1g, this trip takes 49 years for the astronaut!
I think because of the expansion of the universe, you don't have to decelerate as much if you travel to far away galaxies.
I'm currently taking 2mg once a week on my rest day; I started with 1mg and after 1 month added another MG. I'll continue each month until I reach 8MG once a week, which is the dosage the doc I worked with in Texas to get my prescription recommended and most people seem to take.
Also - I would say that NMN + Rapa is a completely life altering combination for anyone 50+. I feel like I can lift harder and longer now than when I was in my 40's and things seem to be getting easier the farther into my rapa routine I get.
Also also - you can find rapamycin online / overseas under its other name - Sirolimus - and the cost is a little lower than getting a proper US prescription.