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Oh, and how viable is the idea of genetically engineering massive-algae farms in the ocean that grow like mad and shed excess mass to the bottom of the ocean? I'm talking a Texas sized clump of algae that we'll eventually have to nuke to stop it from stripping out atmosphere completely of carbon...

Difference between solar shingles and solar roadways is I don't need to drive a fully loaded 18 wheeler on top of my roof, and I don't have dickheads throwing garbage on my roof.

With magical nanotech, won't we be able to easily identify virus elements and separate them from other stuff in ways we can't now? Such that we aren't squinting with cumbersome tools, but are identifying very small structures with precision far beyond what we have now?

I like the idea of the Senate and Congress being 1000 people each. Each state gets 20 senators, and an amount of housemembers based on their population. Create a big stadium with stadium style uncomfortable chairs for them to meet in. Reduce the amount of time they can talk to be minimal. Have...

I don't see how this can be done with the current SCOTUS upholding the first amendment. I mean, if this is a fantasy land we can rewrite the meaning behind the constitution, make big money's influence in federal elections minimal and have state sponsored campaigns. Make it such that the only...

Thinking about term limits, I wonder if this would have the downside of making politicians less powerful and less able to stand against big money. If you're a 20 year incumbent housemember of a fairly happy district, your chances for re-election are so high and your campaign costs are so low...

Yes. Even if Trump continues to inch toward favorability (which would be pretty incredible), it's still much more firmed up than it was a few months ago.

All the good betting is generally outside the general election result, or betting on the swings. The margins are larger and uncertainty much higher when betting on who wins Iowa than who wins the POTUS. And while the race is pretty much firmed up, a few months ago betting on who will increase...

The takeaway for me is that even with an incredibly impressive propellentless drive we're still very, very far from the stars. We'll need a few massive technological breakthroughs beyond that to reach the stars without a generation ship.

Never been tested. I'm probably within a standard deviation from the mean. Picked forum moderator.

Planning on DS3 up. I hear good things about dex, estoc and pyromancy. Any build suggestions? I did a similar thing in DS2 and did winged lightning spear / sorcery in DS1. I'll probably play offline.

Not sure why you'd say that. It's reasonable to assume that a future propellentless drive using physics we don't think is possible would have limits in the form of heat generation or power draw. I'd say that being able to accelerate a ship at 0.1m/s would be pretty impressive for one of these...

Agree completely. And when asteroid mining makes the path to a generation ship possible by bringing massive amounts of usable resources to LEO, I'll be super happy that we're building a generational ship. Even if there's a 90% chance that we'll beat it to its destination, it's worth doing on the...

Not inevitable, but concepts like guaranteed wages become more tolerable. But, johnny handouts getting 30k usd a yewr doesnt mean the wealthy will give up the means of production.

PokemonGo showed the world that a pretty simple app that is slightly connected to the world and barely has augmented reality built into it can be massive in new and exciting ways, though the pokemon IP is a juggernaut and helped with that as well. VR / AR will be huge, 100 billion dollar...

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised either way. I haven't heard anything concrete about XP rates in EoK. I know the task rewards can give 30AAs, but I don't know if there's some AA pinata. I think where it concerns leveling most people are more focused on the tradeskill leveling they're obliged to do...