Recent content by Algr

That could work, but it would not necessarily need to be nanobots. I suggested that there would be multiple ships co-operating, but using different strategies to achieve a common goal. And they might go to a solar system that had multiple worlds that might be terraformable. It is a case of...

Yes. The first thing to come from the ships would be seeds of various types. Microorganisms from Earth. Then progressively more complex plants and then animals, as the world gains an oxygen atmosphere and becomes more Earthlike. A planet that already has thriving macroscopic life would...

A prediction of mine from 2022 has come true: This was in the context of interstellar colonization. I think that braintaping trained humans, and making clones of them would be more viable than trying to create a biosphere full of active humans that could last for tens of thousands of years...

I don't want to deal with PayPal or give them any more power. Plus, how does PayPal make money off of this? They would just make the service more and more expensive. The whitelist process can work without any central authority managing it, so anyone could set up a bypass service, and people...

My folders are absolutely deluged with spam, to the point that my e-mail client chokes if I try to delete it all. I routinely miss legitimate messages in all the spam, and have had to abandon e-mail addresses multiple times. I'll take a look at your link, but if an effective spam blocker...

There would be one button that turns the blocker off, and then turns in on again after three minutes. (Or once you accept the e-mail you want.) Yes. So your whitelist might not be the same as just your address book. If the e-mail bounces, at least the person trying to contact you will know...

Well there is yet another security failure in the news. This time it is from Apple. Ugg. About a year ago I was on a Discord and asked someone who was a networking engineer about what I thought was a simple way to block unwanted communications. He became very annoyed with me and told me to...

Imagine being the king of the Gods, and not only do you have that thing staring down at you all the time, but people say that it is your fault. Oh, she'd be so pretty if it wasn't for you and your damn weight.

If it was dark, it would also reduce the time before you could actually detect the object.

Perhaps, but there is a limit to that. "My dear, I look into your eyes and see you have a face like Io." :: Gets slapped. ::

I understand "colony" as meaning that people move there expecting to live their whole lives, get married, and have kids who also live their whole lives there. So by that measure, we don't even have colonies on Antarctica yet. The problem with moon or mars colonies is that there is simply...

I don't think so. There is no culture that sees pock marks or sores or splotchy skin as being attractive. Animals or people who are attracted to such things do not leave many offspring. Io genuinely looks like human disease, whereas the moon is a purley white disk with barely visible details...

In this universe, mankind looked up at the sky and said... Yuck. Humans looked upwards. In our world they saw hope, romance, and delicate beauty. In that world they saw this thing. Their eyes turned down, they continued to exist as mortals, but the civilizations and cultures withered and...

Venus and Jupiter last night. And the moon a few weeks ago:

I for one, welcome our Argentinian overlords.