then wed live in the world simon stalenhag imagined, go look it up its great (the soviet union invents anti gravity tech lenin-laugh )
Comment on bro pls
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Imagine if only 1/10 of all countries GDP went to scientists and patent bullshit didn’t exist ? We’d be mining asteroids and sipping coffee on Mars.
bazingabrain@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I like to analyze art ( usually alone and in my mind ) so bear with me. His art is Very interesting but it’s always big robot/drone/ megalithique structures in an open field. While I can totally imagine a big robotic mascots rotting away for months after a malfunction, his work more akin to the 50s view of what the future would be but with modern lenses/tech than a plausible future . In the steel vs digital war, the digital won and his work doesn’t show any of it.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Venus would take longer, but would be vastly easier to terraform to a habitable world. The atmosphere should be able to be transformed into an earth like atmosphere by dumping a few comets and some bacteria in. Might take the bacteria a few thousand years, but they did it here in Earth caused the first mass extinction.
We might wanna check to see if any bacteria exist on Venus first, but honestly if there are, they haven’t made the evolutionary jump in the last 4 billion years, so I doubt it will happen just cause we add the necessary water.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m partial to the idea of converting Mercury into a star lifter / thruster / planetary shade. Blocking sunlight to Venus would cause the atmosphere to cool, then freeze and fall as snow. Then you can disassemble Venus too for more raw material. That’s a massive store of carbon, oxygen, and sulfur. Solar powered mass drivers operating out of a planetary vacuum cut costs of launching material into space.
I’ve watched a bunch of Isaac Arthur.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t disassemble Venus. That planet is far too easy to terraform. Disassemble Mars, asteroids, and the various otherwise useless moons, comets, asteroids, and proto-planets in the heliosphere
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, I understand the argument for terraforming, but I’m more of an O’Neil Cylinder kind of guy. I prefer the idea of overwhelming surface area via orbital habitats rather than gravity wells. Considering the eons involved with stripping both inward planets down to the last bucketful though, I’m certainly in favor of a few millennia to fully explore and research them both beforehand.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not seeing why the same couldn’t be said for Mars, drop some mold spores and water bears down there, maybe some photosynthetic bacteria, slowly build a blanket of CO2 to warm the planet, melt/release the water from the surface, a thousand years gives a habitable planet, no asteroid steering required.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mars is roughly a single order of magnitude larger than The Moon, in mass. It doesn’t have a magnetic field protecting it, and can’t unless we add a significant amount of metals to the planet. It also doesn’t have an atmosphere due to the two previous facts.
Meanwhile, Venus is roughly the size of The Earth at a scale of 4.8673 : 5.97222. It doesn’t have enough water though. It also doesn’t have a large iron core to create a magnetic field to protect the inhabitants. However, we could re-route several comets fairly easily to impact Venus giving it a small amount of mass, but also all the water that is needed to start the bacteria creating a Nitrogen rich atmosphere that has a large percentage of Oxygen, turning Venus into a tropical planet that will lose its atmosphere in a few billion years. To counteract this, as we throw 20-30 comets at Venus, we should also throw 100-200 Iron rich asteroids at Venus so that they will be absorbed into the molten core and form a magnetic field for Venus.
Now we have 2 Earth-like planets in a few thousand years.
To create such a gravitational well on Mars, so that we aren’t constantly losing both our normal skeletural muscles, but also more importantly, our organ muscles, you would have to create a stable black hole in the core of Mars, or you would have to bombard Mars, and its pathetic moons, with millions of asteroids.
To create a long term naturally stable, new earth, Venus is just closer to the masses that we actually need. By dropping just the comets onto Venus you just added a lot of mass, and that gets Venus even closer to being “Earth-like.” We will have to give Venus a comparative moon, but with asteroid mining, and starlifting, that shouldn’t be an issue.
FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s all fine calling patents bullshit until you start getting large corporations stealing technology from small and medium enterprises.
The way to ensure that large corporations and no small businesses can thrive have an even bigger monopoly is to get rid of the patent system.
Tired of this shit on Lemmy. Do your homework.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
It’s currently used to monopolize important discoveries and technologies. The Huawei debacle is the biggest proof. No country should be able to control another’s technological advance based on weither they’re friends with them at the moment or not. Also, it’s not like big tech stealing from small/medium enterprise never happens. Either they just buy the company or strangle it one way or another to bankrupt it and then buy it for cheap.
brianorca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just because big tech does these things doesn’t mean we should remove any pretense of rules against it. If they want something a little guy has, they should buy it, not take it for free.
FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You make the patents too easy to get and it fucks the little guy over as the big corps hoover up all the ideas. You make them difficult or impossible to get then that also benefits the big guys over the little guys as they will just steal people’s ideas and produce them for cheaper with their existing infrastructure which creates an even bigger monopoly.
There is a sweet spot that society is trying to reach. It’s imperfect like any system but it’s far far better than having no system.
You’ve not even considered that in order to get a patent granted you have to disclose your invention to the public which stops big corporations hoarding too many trade secrets.
All in all, the idea that patents shouldn’t exist benefits nobody except the large corporations. Say goodbye to start ups growing in size if that is the case.
TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This comment doesn’t even make sense. For example, the USA government spent 37% compared to the GDP.
If you mean 10% of government spending towards science then that question makes sense.
The USA spends about $75billion of the $800billion defense budget on R&D. It spends another $120billion on non-defense R&D.
Which is about 1/31 of federal spending for the US.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Thanks for the correction. I never knew what word to use and used GDP because that’s the closest thing to what I mean. Thanks again !
HubertManne@kbin.social 10 months ago
Honestly I thought your original comment was refering to basic science so the 10% would be huge.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Would be neat if they found a way to only spend like 200 billion a year (the GDP of Hungary) on the people grinder.
TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But we spend nearly $200 billion just paying salaries. We spend the most because we are also an expensive country to live in and that means paying the folks who volunteer a decent wage.
We would have to significantly downsize the military personnel and pretty much operate as homeland defense only.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That sounds great
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
I don’t think even a purely defensive military could be that small for the US. We have a lot of coastline on two oceans, plus distant holdings in Alaska and Hawaii. Even discharging Guam and the like would still be a lot of ground and ocean to cover.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My googling says the US spent 185b on the DHS last year and has 100b for FY2024, which includes the stupid mexico wall. I’m sure there would be more things to deal with not included in that and it would take time to transition, but any reduction is a positive gain.