The technology for moving dead satellites is long overdue. Sure, it has military implications, but it's a heck of a lot more responsible than anti-satellite missiles.
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A complicated sunshield deployment seems somewhat inevitable, personally, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong there.
> Also there are famous scientists agree that NP=P. Hilbert, a great mathematician of the twentieth century, has afamous saying: we must know; we will know. It can be seen that Hilbert essentially agreed that NP equals P. Many mathematical problems in human history, including Hilbert's famous 23 mathematical problems, are constantly beingsolved. Isn't it a confirmation that NP equals P?
Also, meshing against a 1-tooth gear is problematic, so you would need to probably increase that to >4 teeth to have it work. Then your bigger gear needs to have >4x the teeth to get the desired ratio.
They briefly mention the statistic in the last paragraph.
For things like MP4 metadata that usually need to be near the beginning of a file for the MP4 to be considered streamable, it can be quite cumbersome. Being unable to expand a file from the beginning means that fancy MP4 writers write a bunch of blank space (perhaps guessing the necessary size of the metadata portion), then after the stream data is written, go back and hope that they allocated enough blank space to fit the metadata within. If the writer was wrong, either it has to put the metadata at the end of the file (preventing streaming), or has to rewrite the entire file with a bigger buffer.
Perhaps it is a wish that requires too many layers to be changed to be possible, but I like to dream.
Systems have inertia, stuff continues working until it hits a wall. The unemployment systems written in COBOL kept churning until now, for example.
I think the cuts in jobs might give the impression that "we never needed them in the first place," and maybe that's true in some cases, but it's hard to distinguish right now from the effects that take years to surface.
The original hl2 code leak was a fan from Germany that hacked into Valve's network and stole a version. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/what-drove-one-half-l...
There are YouTube channels like VNN that rely on Valve leaks, but most of it seems like running `strings` on their update files. He does claim to have some inside sources, but they mostly seem to provide social commentary on Valve internal politics.
Your strategy will probably keep you alive, but the same is not guaranteed for many millions of people that are old or with immune system complications.
There are a couple reasons this sucks: - some people seem to not care about that far in the future - people seem to be pretty bad at detecting change in their environment over longer time scales
A memorable example of the second one: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...
It feels like absurd lore in Fallout, but probably actually happened.
That said, Elite: Dangerous is pretty awesome. It helps ground how far away everything is. Even with the game's FTL travel, the fact that it takes actual weeks to reach Sagattarius A* boggles the mind.