Ramin_HAL9001
@Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml
Software engineer, functional programming enthusiast.
- Comment on US Air Force successfully tests AI-controlled fighter jet in first dogfight against human pilots 2 months ago:
It was also the plot of the Terminator series of films. Well, except for the detail that the AI controlling the aircraft (called “Skynet”) became “self aware” and that is what caused it to launch all the nukes to kill all the humans.
So how it differ from Terminator’s “Skynet” is that these real life AI are being controlled by genocidal maniacs (the largest concentration of whom seem to live in the US and Israel at present) and they are setting these things to “auto-kill” mode, like what happened in Gaza recently. And the genocidal maniacs gleefully ignore international law, saying “you want to stop me, you and what army?” So who is to keep them from turning the robots against you and me?
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 2 months ago:
I am upvoting this thread for being relevant to the discussion, but man, this article makes me sick. They are completely ruining Star Trek.
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 2 months ago:
they’re not really illegal at all, are they?
If a police officer commits murder but the D.A. covers it up and the officer is never charged with a crime, does this make murder legal?
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 2 months ago:
“Illegal?” DS9’s S31 was protected by Starfleet Command. They were completely untouchable.
They can be both protected and illegal. Sisko noted that the organization was completely antithetical to the laws of Starfleet, but their existence was neither denied nor acknowledged by Starfleet. This is part of the reason why he asked Bashir to act as a double-agent.
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 2 months ago:
Deep Space Nine made it absolutely clear that Section 31 is an illegal black-ops org with garb somewhat reminiscient of Nazi storm troopers.
Yeoh has described it as “Mission: Impossible in space,” and likened the tone to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Mission: Impossible, the longest-running, pro-CIA anti-communist propaganda series in US history making illegal black-ops Nazis look cool.
Fuck these fucking producers. I want my gay space communism back.
- Comment on Gravity Storage 101 Or Why Pumped Hydro Is The Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage 5 months ago:
Cool, I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks!
- Comment on Pretty cool fan made intro to a non-existent show 5 months ago:
Wow, I am impressed. I am just finishing up the entire Deep Space 9 series, this really adds to the ambiance for me.
I am so curious where they got all the 3D assets for the Defiant, Deep Space 9, even one of the Orb of the Prophets… did they actually do all that by hand? These aren’t just available on Thingverse or the Unreal Engine Marketplace, right?
- Comment on Gravity Storage 101 Or Why Pumped Hydro Is The Only Remotely Real Gravity Storage 5 months ago:
There is only one other gravity storage system that I know of that isn’t hydro, but it isn’t really a storage system. It is the Forterra ropeway used by a quarry in the UK where buckets of minerals are sent down a rope line similar to a ski lift. Since the quarry is uphill from the processing area, the energy from the material traveling along the rope is used to pull up all the empty buckets. Tom Scott did a YouTube video on it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RiYXI1Tfu4
I don’t know why they didn’t just put the mineral processing area closer to the quarry, maybe it moved over time?
But anyway this is the only example of a viable gravity stored energy system that I know of that is not pumped hydro.