When liquidity is abundant, people get hyped to invest in “grand” ideas that are often dystopian at best and pure garbage at worst.
SpaceX is another example. Our current understanding of rocket propulsion is nowhere near enough to escape Earth’s gravity, let alone travel millions of kilometers through space in a controlled, stable way.
So why are we celebrating landing a rocket on Earth when humans supposedly went to the Moon decades ago?
But that is not the point. Elon Musk is a master at selling ideas that sound revolutionary but are mostly shit, like the Cybertruck.
I hope humanity snaps back to reality as this mass delirium fades.
@Le_Patoff Ouiiii, des usines de production d'airbus en bout de chaîne d'un écosystème européen ca se déménage comme un t2bis. T'as jamais rien construit toi non ?
@ralifromparis Looool. Genre les usines airbus, le pole aerospatial et l'écosystème de ss traitants c'est 3 cartons et un clicclac xD. Va faire du coloriage jeanmi
In 1972, John Conway posed an intriguing question about the Game of Life: could there exist a still life pattern that has no predecessor other than itself?
A configuration that could only arise from itself in the previous generation, never from any other arrangement of living and dead cells. Conway attached a $50 prize to this problem.
Fifty years later, in 2022, mathematicians Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo finally provided an answer. They constructed a finite still life of 306 cells that indeed has the property Conway had wondered about - it has no predecessor other than itself.