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March 04, 2021, 03:08:56 PM |
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I'm fine with investing more, like 2x or 3x.
But some of the pie-in-the-sky ideas I hear here require spending 100x or 1000x more. Is it possible?
Even worse, some daydreamers don't even think about the costs. Or even laws of physics.
They think the 'magic of technology' plus 'magic of positive thinking" can solve absolutely everything. And soon.
One issue is that space has been not only politically unpopular for spending money on (something I nominally agree with as a libertarian) but also heavily controlled and regulated by the government for private companies (something that I don't agree with). The latter has somewhat been relaxed recently but not by much. We went to the moon for political reasons which meant we used technology that wasn't ready then dropped it when those political reasons were no longer present. If it had been for financial reasons, we'd have waited a few years for better tech and probably have moon bases by now or maybe not. Satellites have been financially viable and now there are 2,666 operational satellites of which 1,646 are commercial (data from April 2020).
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Fresh 'scientific' FUD: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629619302701Results indicate that in 2018, each $1 of Bitcoin value created was responsible for $0.49 in health and climate damages in the US and $0.37 in China.
Further, with each cryptocurrency, the rising electricity requirements to produce a single coin can lead to an almost inevitable cliff of negative net social benefits, absent perpetual price increases. For example, in December 2018, our results illustrate a case (for Bitcoin) where the health and climate change “cryptodamages” roughly match each $1 of coin value created. We should obviously get back to more ethical and less energy demanding storages of wealth such as digging up thousands of tonnes of soil to get a few micrograms of gold or sending little African children into the mines to get it for us.
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March 04, 2021, 03:15:43 PM |
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I'm with the other guy who thinks we should be grounded in reality for now. Space elevators are fun and all, but we could still cover a lot of surface area on the planet, maybe even in the oceans, for plenty of solar panels / arrays to power the world (or a bitcoin miner.) I found this before: https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127So it's not updated, but you can line up a whole bunch of solar panels near the equator and not much is needed to power the world (not including bitcoin miners) ... That article also discusses wind power and hydroelectric power. Edit: here is another one just for bitcoin. https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/5697
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March 04, 2021, 03:20:32 PM |
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
The battle for $50k continues... currently $49255USD/$62248CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Bouncy bouncy. Coiling.
Sometimes sideways is good.
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March 04, 2021, 03:48:25 PM |
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Seems like a different life sometimes. That is a nice photo of symbolism to a video I was just going to watch as I hadn't have time to in the last week since I found it on youtube shuffle. Bitcoin price keeps some people infront of their monitors watching the action take place but just like that, you got to keep active because you know idle hands is the devils workbench. Or something like that. I'll post the link to the video over the weekend and use that pic you posted back in 2013 to mark it as a must see. Posted up the video with link to this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5321650Youtube had temporarily removed it about a month ago due to it crossing one of their conditions restrictions but then put it back up. Some one was saying in the youtube comment section there was another film just like this one available on bitchute called: "The greatest story ever told!" I know what I will be doing this weekend for an hour or two.
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March 04, 2021, 03:48:56 PM |
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Because the powers that be are a combination of clueless (this one is decreasing) and afraid (this one is increasing).
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March 04, 2021, 04:10:31 PM |
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You need a counterweight to stop it all coming down to earth yup, geosync orbit is the midpoint of the elevator. well, more or less. as you say it needs a counterweight further out so it doesnt need to be the actual midpoint. one can go with no real dedicated counterweight, just make the cable twice as long and use the mass of the cable itself thats past geosync as the counterweight. i believe you can sling stuff off the far end too if its just cable past the geosync point. iirc. but you know this of course, this is for those who havent looked into it. didnt Arthur C. Clarke 1st came up with the space elevator concept?. Fountains of Paradise. Exactly space elevators are a great concept but not possible with the current materials. There is another way to get you to geostat in 30min without using rocket fuel but it's pretty insane but doable. Anyone from NASA can DM me
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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
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March 04, 2021, 04:19:15 PM Last edit: March 04, 2021, 04:31:32 PM by vapourminer |
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There is another way to get you to geostat in 30min without using rocket fuel but it's pretty insane but doable. Anyone from NASA can DM me shot outta a cannon ala Jules Vern's From the Earth to the Moon? obviously you can tell im not NASA lol
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March 04, 2021, 04:25:42 PM |
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Does it mean we see it today? nope. Does it mean we see it tomorrow? nope. Does it mean if you are storing billions in gold you should shift some to BTC? maybe.
Indeed. The value of gold is largely supported by speculation and those who want a hedge. As soon as any concrete measure in the direction of asteroid mining occurred, the price would surely drop like a rock.
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March 04, 2021, 04:27:08 PM |
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
The battle for $50k continues... currently $49255USD/$62248CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Bouncy bouncy. Coiling.
Sometimes sideways is good.
Bouncy yes. Vola down
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March 04, 2021, 04:32:05 PM |
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There is another way to get you to geostat in 30min without using rocket fuel but it's pretty insane but doable. Anyone from NASA can DM me shot outta a canon ala Jules Verns From the Earth to the Moon? obviously you can tell im not NASA lol Close but my idea is survivable by any healthy individual. It also allows you to send things up that weigh a lot
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March 04, 2021, 04:34:27 PM |
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Good morning Bitcoinland.
The battle for $50k continues... currently $49255USD/$62248CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Bouncy bouncy. Coiling.
Sometimes sideways is good.
Bouncy yes. Vola down DOWN suit's you hv_
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March 04, 2021, 04:56:21 PM |
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you can guess again ... touched 50k (50010) and we go back down again ... the third time this day! And continue until someone put so many money into, that we wet up to 52k ... (look the 4h cahrt) ... but it seems weaker ... last times(!) we went straint down under 49k (48,5k) ... now not yet...
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Richy_T
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March 04, 2021, 04:58:51 PM |
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We should obviously get back to more ethical and less energy demanding storages of wealth such as digging up thousands of tonnes of soil to get a few micrograms of gold or sending little African children into the mines to get it for us.
Nah, they want paper (well, not even that since it's all digital now) where they can create trillions at the push of a button.
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March 04, 2021, 05:01:17 PM |
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I'm with the other guy who thinks we should be grounded in reality for now. Space elevators are fun and all, but we could still cover a lot of surface area on the planet, maybe even in the oceans, for plenty of solar panels / arrays to power the world (or a bitcoin miner.) I found this before: https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127One of the big things right now is the minerals required for high efficiency generators, solar panels and batteries for storing it all. Mining space would be a good way to handle that over some of the ethically questionable methods currently used.
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I'm with the other guy who thinks we should be grounded in reality for now. Space elevators are fun and all, but we could still cover a lot of surface area on the planet, maybe even in the oceans, for plenty of solar panels / arrays to power the world (or a bitcoin miner.) I found this before: https://landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/127One of the big things right now is the minerals required for high efficiency generators, solar panels and batteries for storing it all. Mining space would be a good way to handle that over some of the ethically questionable methods currently used. Just produce stuff off-planet and send it in. Launch trash towards the sun.
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March 04, 2021, 05:07:19 PM |
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Seems straightforward then. We bulldoze San Francisco and cover it in solar panels.
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March 04, 2021, 05:10:52 PM |
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Just produce stuff off-planet and send it in. Launch trash towards the sun.
Ironically, it takes a lot of energy to drop stuff into the sun.
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March 04, 2021, 05:15:18 PM |
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Just produce stuff off-planet and send it in. Launch trash towards the sun.
Ironically, it takes a lot of energy to drop stuff into the sun. Can't you just point it there, fire a thruster, and let it go it's course? (I mean, calculate where it should end up, but yeah, basically go towards the sun.)
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