Recent content by kamaz

Of course. But here's the funny thing: if the proposed theory was that it's a cloud of comets, you wouldn't be demanding a detailed orbital solution. Mercury's maybe less. ---------- Post added at 05:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:06 PM ---------- So what? We have also observed...

For starters, if someone is building a Dyson swarm, then we should see an orbiting cloud of material which gets bigger with time, as the civilization's demand for energy grows and the swarm is expanded... oh wait, that's exactly what we are seeing. Especially if the dimming has been going over...

First of all, the "extraordinary claims..." adage was coined by Carl Sagan when he was presented with an extraordinary claim with pretty solid evidence. Problem was, Mr. Sagan was uncomfortable with accepting the evidenced claim, so he coined this logical fallacy to be able ignore the evidence...

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/avr-gcc On AVR, address registers are 16-bit, while arithmetic registers are 8-bits. Compiling with -mint8 results in 8-bit int and 16-bit void* mirroring the internal architecture of the CPU (as it should be theoretically). However such setup would mess up a lot of...

Your moon crashes have a plausible explanation that you are learning to land on the Moon. OTOH this route can have no purpose except for a suicide:

MH370 Pilot Flew a Suicide Route on His Home Simulator Closely Matching Final Flight http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/mh370-pilot-flew-suicide-route-on-home-simulator.html

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That's obvious. People are promoted so they will stop doing damage. ---------- Post added at 08:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:15 PM ---------- The idea is that you should catch only if you know how to deal with the exception yourself, otherwise you just let it propagate up to the...

That's the wrong approach. How about building something which is cheap, small, fast, highly maneuverable and attacks the enemy using kamikaze tactics? Swarm the enemy with this at 50:1 ratio. https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/cheap-drones/...

Oh, contrary. The pilot is the limiting factor in dogfighting, because human body cannot withstand high g loads. An AI-controlled plane will be able to fly sharper turns, so it will outmaneuver any human pilot. So even if the AI is slightly dumber, it will compensate by aircraft performance...

Three Taxes for Farmers under the sky, Seven for the Businessmen in their halls of stone, Nine for Wage Workers doomed to die, One for the Treasurer on his dark throne In Ministry of Finance where the Shadows lie. One Tax to rule them all, One Tax to find them, One Tax to bring them all, and in...

Went to see Tannhäuser today. My first real exposure to Richard Wagner, and while sitting in the theater it occurred to me that some musical phrases I was hearing sounded very much like heavy metal. Did some googling, turns out many people think the same.