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I already told you I was not going to chase every link you provide. - What you are describing I already described in post #30.

Is this the same reason why Japan used floppy disks well into the 2010s and part of the 2020s for government affairs...

Yeah. When I was doing my PhD our desktop machines were Pentium IIs running Windows 98 or 2000, but we still had 386s and 486s in the...

There's millions of headless PCs doing industrial controls and front ends that don't ever get software upgrades and run for decades.

This!!! RCD/GFCI should not be used as primary protection. They are an additional safety feature which simply isn't as reliable as good...

I don't intend to chase every link you provide since there are endless misconceptions with someone either spouting off how they think it...

YouTube was inspired by this thread and served up Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd:

I guess you are right. Just a few days ago, almost 100,000 cricket fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). If you can...

I mean, people are still looking for Amilia Earheart.

An unstated assumption in the line of discussion is that they exist simultaneously/now. Given that humans have only had the ability to...

Another point I would make is that saying that the observable universe is "teeming with life" is not a very useful conclusion. If, say...

Exactly. That life appeared quite quickly on Earth could mean that it's really easy (as Dave and phyzguy say, abiogenesis could happen...

I think there a few assumptions and misconceptions happening here, and trying to project it onto Fermi's Paradox is making it worse...

The thing to remember is that, if new life formed today on Earth, it would get eaten very quickly. So you can't conclude that life only...