As with all things internet, I am left wondering.
There are a lot of things besides a meteorite that can make a bang and a cloud of presumably dust.
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One of the problems that comes with being a criminal is that I think in ways that I know most people donâtâŚbut some people do. I could get a chondrite meteorite for two-three hundred bucks using a friend as a blind buy so Iâm not a recorded âmeteorite buyer,â pop a firecracker in front of my ring doorbell, and then explain how I came home from a book signing and found the meteorite in my driveway.
Internet podcaster: Book signing?
Me: Yeah. Just Robbed a Bank. Absolutely hilarious. Available from any on line bookseller.
Fifteen minutes of fame can be really useful, and worth a huge return on investment of a few hundred bucks. Thatâs the internet.
I mean, Iâm not accusing these people, but thatâs the internet. You never really know.
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Given up waiting for Boeing - decided to walk home.
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Both of you guys crackinâ me up but for totally different reasons. 
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Speaking of cracking up
Space X rocket is lost in space then possibly seen breaking up
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Worrying for the Robinson family.
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I think they can handle it
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On a somewhat related note, I think the 2018 Netflix Lost In Space is worth binging.
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That qualifier seems a bit ironic in hindsight. That might just have been the most spectacular breakup in the history of rocketryâŚ
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Footage of the actual Starship 7 RUD:
Footage of the Starship 7 debris after:
Not sure what is up with the above posts, but those are supposed to be the first sources.
The below video might be the better choice:
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Lol. I had just read a report. I had not seen the footage. So yeah. Pretty obvious.
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The best laid plans of mice and menâŚI wasnât looking forward to AI data centers the size of Manhatten. Will they now make them even larger or try to innovate a new approach? Either way, there isnât really any time left for playing catch up.
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This is going to be the biggest market bubble since the bloody south-sea trading company⌠Theyâll pretend that whoever masters this crap heap of a dead-end technology they have right now will rule the world until the bubble bursts, and thanks to big-time government buy-in theyâll be able to keep it going for quite a while. And then weâll have a crash the likes of which we havenât seen in a loooong timeâŚ
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Iâm not at all sure they will. Remember, the prime interest governments have in AI is military. The chatbots they let us mortals see are just the tip of a quite disturbing iceberg. In announcing their rival AI system, the Chinese have instigated an arms race no country can afford to ignore.
Those who thought self-aware trans human AI was a pipe dream, or at least a long way off, were dead wrong. The first country to build an AI that can design an even smarter AI wins a huge advantage in the race - and everybody in power knows it.
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Young uns. They all think itâs about monetary profit. But wizened old folk know the real score.
The thought of a war conducted at the speed of AI calculations is beyond terrifying.
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Interfacing this high speed AI to actual weaponry will be a massive roadblock that will have to be overcome before we get there. Actual weapons require durability and reliability at very extreme levels. Combat conditions; temperature, electromagnetic interference, impacts; these are things that a weapon platform has to take in stride. Picture how long your phone would last in combat.
On the other hand, Trump has demonstrated how vulnerable a population can be to getting themselves herded into an alternate reality where their most dangerous enemy becomes their hero and overlord. In the 2012 election Karl Roveâs troll farms were not enough to get Romney elected; partly because not enough people were accepting their ânewsâ from completely unvetted internet sources, and partly because the troll farms just werenât fast enough. With AI that can generate commentary that cannot be distinguished from humans at trillions of words per minute, plus the current level of susceptibility, lies can become âuniversally accepted truthâ in a matter of what? Hours? Minutes?
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