Carbon Capture is a fraud. It's always been a fraud.
Our Conservative Sask Party government blathered on about it for years as an alternative to "Trudeau's evil Carbon Tax". And it went about as well as you'd expect.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/carbon-capture-projects-not-meeting-targets-1.6241420
I think it's pretty clear from current events that that is exactly who we are.
Yes. But, much like us, the true "great filter" will turn out to be greed in one way or another.
I don't think we, as a species, are ever leaving the solar system. And I don't believe any other intelligent species would either. Exploration is high and noble, but the people who pay for it always expect a return on their investment. Finding the new world was about power, wealth and resources for those footing the bill. The exploration of the Arctic was a search for faster access to markets on the opposite side of the world.
There's no profit in doing something "just because it's there".
My belief is that we'll get into the solar system. We'll harvest its resources. And that's where we'll stop. When we think about the size of the solar system, the resources available to us will effectively be infinite. One species would never use them all up before the sun expands and goes nova. It's impossible.
So what is the return on investment to go to another star system? What's the return on investment to making all that effort?
I think we're in a universe that is filled with single-system species that just stay in their neighbourhood.
TIL "Adviser" isn't actually a misspelling of "Advisor" but an actual legitimate alternative spelling.
I was all ready to come in here and rake Reuters for such a basic error, but figured (as I usually do) that I should check my facts before making an ass of myself. Good thing I did...
Exactly. This is the good thing about federation. If you don't like the community you're in, move to another one that better aligns to your values. No one's speech is "limited", but other instances aren't forced to listen to you unless they want to.
There is a fix. It's called Unionizing.
If CEOs work so many hours, who keeps golf courses in business Monday thru Friday?
1 - Critical Thinking
2 - World History
3 - Civics
4 - Apocalypse survival skills (If the first three don't make a dent)
5 - Everything else (if there's time)
Vance is the Eric to Elon's Don Jr.
Been a while since I've seen an O.G. Shadowrun screenshot.
(O.G as in the video games. I'm well aware they were a role playing system long before that)
Anti-anxiety meds.
Anxiety isn't the cause of all people's short fuse, but it was for me.
And to be clear, I wasn't really "anger" issues as in "blowing up at other people". You don't work retail long before you learn how to put on a happy face. It was more "anger issues" that I would just seethe to myself at all the stupidity around me, completely unable to let even the littlest shit go.
Driving was the worst. I was an asshole as a driver. My entire time travelling to work would often be filled with a constant litany of yelling and swearing to myself, knowing full well that the other person can't hear me.
"Yeah that doesn't surprise me." -- Anyone whose ever seen an Italian Giallo film.