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Promenade / Re: How do you know?

« on: August 24, 2018, 06:40:10 AM »

Do not take a skull jack when it comes, even if it's trendy and increases your interface ability. Your brain might be hacked!

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Energy / Re: Is Solar Right For You??

« on: August 24, 2018, 06:37:23 AM »

It won't power The Ship, but it might light it.

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Promenade / Re: Quantum Computing

« on: August 24, 2018, 06:35:26 AM »

Once Quantum Computing gets real, someone will use it to ruin crypto by mining coins like mad.

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Communication / Re: packet radio

« on: August 24, 2018, 06:27:00 AM »

You can bounce clusters of packets off of random meter trails that are overhead even during the day in intervals from seconds to minutes, establishing an uncensorable, long range, if slow, comm system. Detecting the ionization trail with a transmitter/receiver is petty easy to do, hook it up to transmit during time that you have an active ion trail to bounce the signal over and hold for the next.

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Escape Velocity / Re: Do I have to get a job?

« on: October 16, 2017, 06:31:04 PM »

I always liked the idea of credits based on the energy you give to the system. Solar, wind, hydro, etc. All need watts on the power grid, and if you have excess you might as well get paid. WattCoin or something. Will have less heat loss "tax" once we get room temp superconductors.

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Communication / Re: What is money?

« on: October 16, 2017, 06:26:03 PM »

Alternative to money is barter. If all you have is chickens and eggs, but everyone near you has plenty good luck buying anything. The town 50 miles away might not have a lot of chickens, but they raise pigs and cut a lot of firewood. Eventually you get sick of pig roasts and need to get tangibles.  Money let's you "pretend" that you have just what someone else is looking for, because they can buy it. Credits on a ledger somewhere is money also. Depending on the tech, everyone knows your business or nobody does until you advertise this fact.

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Promenade / Re: Introduction

« on: October 12, 2017, 07:26:18 PM »

Yarr! I think I would like to let this inspire me to write, and perchance to imagine new things, which I will share of course!

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Communication / Re: What is money?

« on: October 12, 2017, 07:15:05 PM »

In general terms, money seems to be just a means of keeping track of stuff. I have 7 sheep, trade me for 3 horses etc.  It's easier to meet in a bar or wherever and trade symbolic stuff than the real stuff usually. It has been precious metals because they are rare. If you used rocks, everyone would be rich and the "price" of items would climb higher than most could carry. Electrons aren't rare, but smart people have figured out ways to  give some of them value. Whether this remains so we shall see, maybe crypto is a 21st century "Tulip Mania". Duckduckgo that if you don't know. Fiat used to be gold and silver backed notes, now they are veritable religious literature, depending on belief to mean anything. Crypto is at least equal to that now if not better. They will try to coopt it into GovCoin or destroy its use in most places.

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Energy / Re: Solar Roads

« on: September 28, 2017, 05:57:29 PM »

Make charging and storage available every 10 miles so you can use the time the road is empty constructively!

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Promenade / Re: Weaponized Currency

« on: September 28, 2017, 05:54:49 PM »

Offer to exchange it at any time for equivalent in Bitcoin or whatever.

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Features / Re: Subsystems

« on: October 16, 2017, 06:38:16 PM »

Power:Solar is fine and all, but it currently can't deliver consistent performance  Storage can't yet be light enough for most Amps/hours tasks. You have to add something with ooomph like a Thorium Reactor, but those wouldn't be private "legally". Conversely you can reduce the power needs or limit it during dark hours.

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Features / Re: Subsystems

« on: September 13, 2017, 12:08:55 PM »

Future comms: find a way to keep an entangled particle in a magnetic trap.  its also entangled mate is in another magnetic trap.  You can read its spin with a laser. If the laser is polarized, you can make it have one spin or the other depending upon which side of the trapped particle you illuminate with the laser pulse. This can be how you exchange ones and zeros, hence communicate.  In theory nobody can eavesdrop on the changes in the entangled partices, although each side is still subject to normal bugging in the room etc.



A side benefit is that in theory there is no range limits or even signal delays, but this has yet to be verified, the Chinese make a lot of claims.



Vision: a and held, private comm with connection to one other anywhere in the solar system or even the universe, with no delays.