Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
@jenstilmanydots Really advanced technology may be able to synthesize any element from any other element (i.e. "transmutation of elements"). Until we have cheap transmutation, we need mining.
@TFL1728@MichaelFKane Don't get me started on the portrayal of asteroid fields in science-fiction movies. Do you know the average distance between asteroids in our asteroid belt? Even the densest regions? (hint: it's many tens of thousands of miles)
@NCJRothschild It's clearly a government black ops entity behind it. They will sell short a massive amount of Bitcoin, and then start dumping the Satoshi bitcoins, triggering a mass panic. Then they will buy the entire planet.
@unhealthytruth Less than 5 grams of sodium salt (NaCl) sounds good. Potassium salts, on the other hand, you need more of than sodium. 5+ grams of potassium salts may be healthy.
@clif_high This chip, while kind of neat in that it demonstrates a cool principle (i.e. the Casimir effect), is almost completely useless. It generates 40 micro-watts. It would take 10,000 of them to light a very small LED bulb.
@clif_high That's a sci-fi book from my youth. In it, humanity has evolved into the three-toed Nebish, who are pacifistic and crowded in cities. They need to de-evolve into real humans again.