Stephen Hawking's Universe is what it is. http://www.youtube.com/user/Gravitationalist#grid/user/E1FDD899F0F06549

that phrase can also mean 2 things, that it was because civilization has went as you said it would or it was because of capitalism, that we are so successful that it would not be much to spend.

It is also leaned more towards going to other star systems. So such a ship would be made after we are able to get about our own solar system is trivial. that would mean we would not be using ~10% of all the earths metal to make the ship

hawkings said that the civilization or person that donated most of the money to get this going would be the most generous in all of human history because it would be something they would never see again. ill try to find it as it is a really good movie if you are interested in that sort of thing.

the planet to planet latency issue does not need to be resolved, just let them fork. or make a MC coin, mars coin. changing to and from MC and BC would be really easy and take at most an hour without any centralization.

or you could just never generate coins on mars. you could just interface with earth via radio or whatever and spend coins that way. I don't see it to hard to believe that people on mars would own earth boxes that control from mars. this would cause issues with spending money at storefronts though. this could be fixed with centralization.

overall it would be best to just make MC or BC2

the whole https thing seems silly to me. who thought it was a good idea to combine https with verifying who you are talking to is who you are talking to. it makes doing this more difficult for less technically inclined people to think that who they are talking to is automatically bad. I believe these 2 things should be completely separate so we don't have to buy certs from some moron who thinks they have more trust than someone else.

I don't think that eme would work well, it would have a lot of latency, and would still be difficult to get a signal from NA to EUR. because the earth is a sphere, it is not visible from everywhere at the same time. im sure at certain times of the day you would take advantage of this, but not all the time. for BC to work well, we need it to be up 24/7 with few times of interruptions, because in just 30 minutes the chain could fork.

if it became necessary to make mining less profitable in a world where it was too cheap and was causing problems, AND it was mainstream, all that would need to be done is make the mainline client mine by default, then it would make it at least 10% more difficult just because of the sheer volume of cpus that would be mining.

in the future we will have things attached to our hearts, when they stop beating for 1 week it automatically sends the coins, the devices also connect to the internet. the send signal keeps trying to send for a year, so as long as your body gets to a internet spot you get the coins sent, longer if you take the device out.

yes i made that up in like 2 minutes.

I don't think a firewall exists today that could block bitcoin at a national or even isp level, and there wont be one for at least another 5 years a minimum. look how hard it is to block BT, this is similar to that, exept BC uses 80% less bandwidth. as said before, we could use phone modems if needed and it would still work.

no, no, no, no, no, its...all just fun and games.

Could an admin just change the persons email and password and prevent them from ever logging in?

It seems more like an issue of bugs than them purposely trying to steal your money. Someone should make an opensource online wallet?

Either way i don't trust them with the amount of reports I see. And i dont trust any other wallet site either because of fear of "fractional reserve walleting"

did anyone get the domain?

are there any pools that don't charge transaction fees? Id like to mine for them instead, and in addition, there was a small amount of evidence that one pool was ddosing bitcoinpool. I can not confirm or deny it, but the staff of bitcoinpool, which i place some trust in said it was likely. so trust them if you want, but the only reason I would ever mine would be to provide 100% free transactions.

I did have a bunched typed to say how that is wrong before I posted the first post, but its beyond the scope of this discussion.

I don't care for china's way of doing things. They have very heavy censorship, and a communist government by nature is no good for any kind of investing.

This is also not mentioning some very unethical trafficking ventures they do in prisons.

If i had a choice i would defect from the world and conduct business in limbo.

would it ever be profitable to rent a box with lower latency to and from the trade server?

how hard is it to make free transactions now? what client will allow me to do this?

how secure is the hardware, what happens if i try to open it. is flash memory embedded inside a plastic casing that cant be opened, easily anyway.

edit: they showed it.

edit2: seems a bit pricy, this drive is a lot cheaper, but im sure its not as secure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6J-Dh8gQeo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139060
I don't think it destroys the data after x amount of attempts either, so it is likely viable to brute force. if you use a strong password, you should have a few days to make the wallet worthless so, idk use at your own risk, and only buy the ironkey if you are paranoid.

it has design challenges, but is no doubtfully safer than my suicide plan.

but for now i think the best solution is nuclear and launching the waste into space toward the sun using the magnetic rails to escape the earths gravity, overcoming the dangers of rockets and them being a dirty bomb.

i will try to answer the question the thread was made for as well, although i don't fully understand the subject of nuclear chemistry, i know a thing or 2.

Fertile material is a term used to describe nuclides which generally themselves do not undergo induced fission (fissionable by thermal neutrons) but from which fissile material is generated by neutron absorption and subsequent nuclei conversions. Fertile materials that occur naturally which can be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor include:
thorium-232 which converts into uranium-233
uranium-234 which converts into uranium-235
uranium-238 which converts into plutonium-239

so really nuclear reactors work by just giving some elements from neutrons and them making another fissile isotope, then that splits and releases energy and various elements.

From what i can tell the advantage to using Th is that it does not need to be enriched as opposed to U? i have no idea if that is correct because i do not know what it is or looks like right out of the ground. id be nice to have a nuclear engineer around to explain it all fully.

why would we do this? it adds a plethora of additional challenges and complexity. why would i mine for bonds, when the current system gives me real money now. sure i could trade the bonds, but why, i got real money now, do you want 2 currencies competing? making each other less valuable.