Avi Loeb proposed this idea a few years ago in his book "Extraterrestrial" about the Oumuamua visitor.
Posts by Baximelter
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Lightsail space tech gets tailwind from Caltech breakthrough
Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

Re: Something in the water?
Actually, Boeing went bad when it merged with M-D and its new masters moved it from Seattle to Chicago. The only remaining decent part of Boeing is the plant in Everett, a few miles north of Seattle. Like HP, Boeing is one of many companies that began to smell bad when the beancounters took over from the engineers.
Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
China launches plan to lead the world in space exploration
Musk's Starlink rockets to 4 million subscribers
Re: While the company has taken steps to reduce the visible brightness of the satellites
Hundreds of large earthbound telescopes provide viewing time for many thousands of astronomers who advance our knowledge of the cosmos. Our few orbiting instruments will never provide that kind of research in depth, not at present and not in the foreseeable future. Starlink is and will continue to be a disaster for astronomy. It is just another aspect of the damage this one man, Musk, has done to the human enterprise. Is his support for Trump a surprise to anyone?
Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike
Re: replace them all
The US's economic health, which significantly outstrips that of the EU, is known to be partly dependent on massive immigration across the Southern border. The "illegal" immigrants comprise a hard-working, expert and eager workforce - especially in agriculture, meat packing, etc.
FBI gains access to Trump rally shooter's phone
Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall – tho as an opt-in
Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day
Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe
Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections
GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal
The GUI is not new to BSD
" . . . some of the other basic niceties that Linux take for granted but are still a novelty in the mostly text-oriented BSD world."
This may be true of FreeBSD, but I have been using a full-featured XFCE on OpenBSD for years. It can be installed in a single step with pkg_add, as can a full suite of other useful apps.
Alien rock remains found not on but deep inside the Earth
GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session
Wayland is just one more brick in the wall of "Why we hate Gnome". Having tried Gnome several times after it went bad, I go to sleep every night praying for its demise. The Gnome developers threw away every good thing it once had. Where do these people come from, and why do the distros favor it so heavily?
MariaDB ditches products and staff in restructure, bags $26.5M loan to cushion fall
New information physics theory is evidence 'we're living in a simulation,' says author
Beethoven and Brahms move audience members to synchronization symphony
GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default
As a long-time user of XFCE (not the detestable GNOME) I can manage window placement by myself, thank you. Here we see the developers of GNOME attempting to make the desktop even more unusable. What is it that drives the folk who build the distributions to foist things like GNOME and systemd on us?
Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email
Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500m bill
Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed
Is the person sitting next to you conscious?
We understand other humans only by what they do. Otherwise, they are opaque. We have insight into their feelings and thoughts only by guessing what we might feel and think in similar situations. And so it is with the AI that is under discussion. While there is no way to prove that the AI has subjective experience, it is the same with our fellow humans.
No more free API access, says Twitter: You pay for that data
Re: They just did this in the wrong order
Twitter is not like Tesla & SpaceX. Twitter involves the participation of millions of us in the common herd. The other two are authoritarian dictatorships. Twitter requires people skills that man-child Musk obviously lacks, and likely will come to a bad end.
FTX audit finds $415m in crypto mysteriously vanished
Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on
University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster
This seems to be a replay of the situation in Oregon a few years ago. The state hired Oracle to create a user interface to the (then) new Obamacare health system. The software never worked and never went online. In the end, the state used the software provided by the federal government - which is used in Oregon to this day. Oregon sued Oracle for the $240 million wasted. The lawsuit eventually was settled for $100 million.
World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course
Strong support for Snap and Ubuntu Core as Canonical meet IRL
Twitter layoffs were bad but Meta's mass ejections could take the cake
Elon Musk shows what being Chief Twit is all about across weird weekend
The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it
Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings
Re: And the problem continues to be
The problem is not violent people or crazy people. There are zillions of them among us. Always have been and always will be. Those who tell us we can solve the problem by funding mental health care for all those who need it are pissing into the wind, into a gale really. That isn't going to happen and can't happen. Removing or at least tightly regulating guns solves most of the problem. It can be done and has been done in a number of more rational nations. That is where we should put our energy.
Pop!_OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle
C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language
Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains
NSA: We 'don't know when or even if' a quantum computer will ever be able to break today's public-key encryption
US tech companies sucked into Russian sanctions row
Re: When did the United States go totally insane?
You need to understand that the US and the Trump government are two different things. Trump's opponent Hillary won the election by a substantial majority (about 3 million votes). Trump, however, was more skillful at gaming the Electoral College. Trump is clearly insane; he remains in power by manipulating his uneducated, racist white base. The republican congress support him because they are terrified of that base. Whether we will ever recover from this is uncertain. Every empire falls eventually.