I never understood the aliens as harvesters as a threat movie plot / Hawking logic. There is SO much stuff in space. All of the stuff. Why care about our stuff? Intergalactic highway imminent domain? Just chart a different course. There’s no reason other than to mess with us for fun like dolphins jacking with a pufferfish. I guess maybe I’ve stumbled onto a sci-fi short story idea.
I think the biological information on earth would likely be extremely valuable. Our DNA took an absurdly long time to evolve, and would probably be almost impossible to acquire with simulations given it spans from microscopic to macroscopic factors. Works of artistic or cultural significance probably have a decent chance as well, given the value we place on those even from ancient or foreign cultures. Whether our biosphere/temperate planet has value probably depends a lot on your assumptions about how hard terraforming is for super-civilizations and how compatible life is.
On the other hand I agree our natural resources are likely worthless. I always laugh at that scientology movie, Battlefield Earth, where the aliens invade, then inslave humans to dig in Earth's gold mines with pickaxes. Maybe the most troublesome possible way you could acquire gold as a spacefairing race.
As a hobby project I'm making a video game about aliens looting museums and zoos for items of cultural and biological value. Mostly because I find the idea of little green men busting up the Louvre then blasting off to be very funny. The zoo angle is a little nonsensical if you consider how much DNA is shared, but obviously scooping up pondscum is a less interesting scenario.
Sometimes we do, or to avoid all kinds of specially designated species. There are reams of complaints throughout construction history about being unlucky enough for your bright new infrastructure project to be heading right for some politically or socially de jour habitat that activists decide they want to protect.
Who's to say that there doesn't exist a cosmic version of Greenpeace that has been actively pamphleteering some galactic government into not star-lasering(1) our little green and blue anthill to a husk for its latest celestial mega-infrastructure project?
Pretty sure HN is not so fond of self-promotion, especially with this kind of attitude. If you want to get yourself out there, pay for proper ads, or market yourself on social media.
Or go by word of mouth, which I assume is your eventual goal... https://xkcd.com/125
Being provocative gets eyeballs. In this situation am I the chewer and the rss feed is the chewed? Which one of us is feeling aroused by it? The feeds? I hope it’s the feeds.
I’ve been thinking about ways to compress information with ai for long distance transmission with LoRA radio for a while and now this LoRA in the news gets me all confused.
There are issues with the grvfs client that gets into a race condition with the disc volumes. It will saturate the max_connections and eat resources at idle. Not sure if this is your issue, I have yet to find a real solution other than uninstalling grvfs-backends and bumping the max user and connections. I got this workaround added to the charmed kubeflow QuickStart. It’s not the correct solution though and I’m pretty spent on the issue.
Hey me too. Just super soft launched last week and onboarded our first partners. Maybe we should talk, I like GIS, Robotics, and streaming environment rendering, not so much the multicloud/edge management piece but I've put a lot into make a nice experience breezy but I'd love to find a vendor partner.
gpugoo.com - ultra soft launch. Copy and images for the landing page aren't even done. Bit launch in a couple weeks with limited beta for a few things.
The detox period from ketamine can induce manic psychosis and it can be invisible to a frequent user. I spent six or eight months daily using ketamine 20 years ago and mania became my constant companion towards the end.
