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What a novel concept. Do whatever the fu*k you want, to whoever you want, then forgive yourself and absolve yourself of any blame or responsibility. I hope none of his advisors mention it to D Trump ...

Is there anything D Trump touches that doesn't turn to sh*t ?

Have you considered that there are different kinds of 'evolution' ? Primates for example have a different evolutionary pathway than ants, or bees, for example, For these types, single members don't take on differing characteristics, rather groups evolve differently to undertake different tasks, and the 'organism' is the collective. Maybe that is how humans are now evolving. We are becoming more social, and take care of each other to enable more of us to reach reproductive age. Isn't that the job of evolution; enable reproduction and passing on of genetic material ? Does that

Oh, OK; that's simple. Evolution is affected by the ability to pass on genetic material to as many offspring as possible. Elon Musk has 14 children with 4 different women. The main cause, then, must be being worth almost a Trillion dollars ...

Oh, you're such an optimist 🙂 .

What difference does it make ? Even if not engulfed by the expanded Sun, it will still be close enough to fry TheVat's picnic.

Both wild animals and humans experience environmental forcingsas you stated. The difference is, humans can now alter their environment to suit them; they don't need to adapt to the environment. A monkey with bad eyesight swings from tree branches, but can't see well and falls to its death, without reproducing. A human gets eyeglasses or laser surgery, and reproduces just fine. A polar bear sees its habitat shrinking because of melting Arctic ice, and eventually all go extinct. Humans build boats, and if needed, install A/C. I Asimov once said" Any sufficiently advanced society stops evolving", and while true to some extent, there are other factors/forcings at play in evolution. For example blond, blue eyed, fit, attractive people may find it easier to find a mate/reproduce in some societies, and while you could dye your hair, join a gym and get facial surgery, this isn't an environmental forcing, but a cultural one. x posted with CharonY and Sethoflagos

In his life ? I really didn't care because I don't run in his circles, and don't frequent casinos so I don't care how many he bankrupts. What about all the stupidity he's committed in the last year and a half since he took over the Presidency ? What about all the stupidity of launching a war, almost 4 months ago, and then begging his enemies to sign an MoU that allows them to keep doing everything they were previously doing, and American taxpayers will contribute 300 Billion for reconstruction. Its amazing that there are still so many Americans who continue to support the The Fu*king Goof. But what, exactly, did these Americans feel slighted about, and whose bitterness D Trump used to his advantage to get re-elected ? It's not like Weimar Germany in 1922, where a wheelbarrow full of Deutschemarks are needed to buy a loaf of bread. Sure, there's no universal Health Care, and a serious gun problem, but inflation under J Biden was coming down faster than any other country, and unemployment was low enough not to matter much. It was among the best countries in the world, and now they are hated by everyone in the world. In less than 2 years he has destroyed the international goodwill America took 100 years to build, and has actually ruined, not improved or gained nationally.

The biggest issue with these multi-century colonization schemes is that they cost a lot, and there is zero return to the people who finance it, but have to remain behind. It is small consolation to us on Earth, that, after having spent Trillions and Trillions of dollars, we may have a colony of humans on a distant planet, if they managed to survive, who we will never see, and we may not be able to communicate with within a human lifespan. So what is the cost to benefit ratio ?

Later outbreaks of the plague seem to have followed the then new system of road building. Isolated communities often kept to themselves, and the only interaction was through newly constructed roads. Those pesky Pestis take every opportunity to spread.

Sorry about the delayed editing; I didn't wanna leave a one line answer. Einstein's GR came out in 1916. By 1926, with the introduction of Quantum Mechanics, we knew that GR was incomplete; there are scales and energies where it is inapplicable., and Einstein spent most of his later life arguing against QM. As far as we know, to make a theory of Gravity compliant with QM, we may have to scrap its geometric model, in favor of a model which meshes fully, at all scales and energies, with QM. It's not that the current model of GR is wrong; it tests perfectly in its area of applicability, but throws out infinities in other areas. The 'map' displays most of the terrain , but displays 'dragons and sea monsters' in unknown areas. I would be willing to bet you that if you were to compile a list of things we know absolutely about reality, and I were to compile a list of things we don't know, my list would be much longer ...

Do you really expect that statement to have a valid answer ? We've been doing what we call science for over 2 Millenia, and we've continuously got it wrong, as we're still making modifications to our understanding. A good scientist looks at the data. What conclusions should we draw from this historical data ?

People who are bitter about the way they've been treated, can always be taken advantage of, by people who will exploit that bitterness. A Hitler, and other historical tyrants knew that. D Trump and the Alberta separatists know it also. By American Government I specifically mean Federal Administration, and members of House and Senate who would rather cover their assess than risk opposing D Trump, and having him support a primary opponent. Funny how, as soon as they lose to a Trump endorsed opponent, they all grow a set. I guess opportunism is more important than honesty and moral/ethical principles. ( oh, I forgot, these are politicians )

Mosy scientists thought the same thing in the late 1800s, just before Max Planck ushered in the birth of Quantum Mechanics, along with the paradigm shift in how we think about reality. I've said it before; the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't yet know.

It was based on what passed for Physics at the time. Claudius Ptolemy was, after all, a 2nd century Greek astronomer. The problem with having not enough information, like the raisin bun model of the atom, or even the Bohr atom, is that people, or scientists, believe that certain things, like orbital charge motion without radiation and orbital decay, are possible in certain circumstances, until these are resolved by more robust models. I am not arrogant enough to assume we know all there is to know with our current Physical models. IOW, keep an open mind, even while dismissing possibilities.

You would have to look far and wide to find one, in the current American Government.

Oh, you just don't get it ... I don't take this stuff seriously, but like to propose Bussard ramjets powered by matter-antimatter engines. Or machine civilizations beaming their 'software' around the galaxy at the speed of light. Not very likely, but there is an extremely small chance, not only alien but even in our own future. Monntanman on the other hand, has always liked talking about this stuff, and its one of the areas he always participates in, so what do you say we cut him some slack. It wouldn't be the 1st time, because the Sun doesn't orbit the Earth.

The meaning of the term 'superpower' has not changed; it is a relative term. The ambition, intent and methods used by the leaders of that 'superpower' is what's changed. The US has been making itself safe for the last century by being fair with its allies, and resolute with its enemies. Now it seeks to subjugate allies, and kiss-up to enemies; all for personal glory, and brazen greed. Nobody, except D Trump, his administration, and MAGA, expected that to work out well.

Sometimes I wish I was smart enough to understand you ... Sadly, I never have. Closest I ever got was a day trip to Tunis, while spending a few days in western Sicily. But that's half a continent away.

You're giving away your age Studiot; Sensei may be young enough to be unaware of a slide rule. ( unless he watched Apollo 13, and saw Tom Hanks using one ) If you have to drive a screw into the wall, and you choose a hammer instead of a screwdriver from your toolbox , are you going to blame the hammer when the plaster or drywall cracks ? Choose the proper tool; never ask a question in AI Overview.

If you go back to my 3rd post on the 1st page of this thread, @studiot , you will read me stating the same thing. All motion cannot cease; it is still, after all, a Quantum system, and quantum Uncertainty has to be obeyed ( even that far in the future, and maybe only fundamental particles ); energy and time in particular, meaning time is still needed. By maximal entropy, @sethoflagos , I mean the largest entropy available to the system at that time in the future. And I propose that there will be no degrees of freedom, or independent states, that will be available for the system to occupy, at that time in the far future, as proton decay might be the very last source of available free energy, at that time. Can you suggest another source of free energy, in that far future, that will keep processes going ? As to whether this is equivalent to Maxwell Entropy, I'm not sure. ( Statistical Thermodynamics was hard enough without memorizing definitions )

I'm afraid you may have misinterpreted what I'm insisting. I'm insisting that these energy states that the hadrons of the Earth could be redistributed in, are simply not available states, because the hadrons would require an input of energy to move to those infinitely many states. Consider a book with 1000 pages. There are many more ways to arrange the pages of that book so that they are not in order, than the one way in which they are ordered. Yet when the book is 'bound', only the ordered state is available; to access the other state you need to supply energy, and rip out all the pages. That is correct. I am of the opinion that 'heat death' of the universe would imply maximal entropy, as there is no more useable energy. ( also, the thread was split after the fact, due to my mention of entropy with respect to time ) If you need to start introducing infinities ... But if you consider an actual system, even one as improbable as the causal, observable universe, parts of it are continuously moving out of that causal frame, and the 'spacing' of the frame is getting stretched by inflation. Energy and mass are leaving the causal universe and radiation is stretching to longer wavelengths. Now give it a Billion, Billion, Billion, Billion years. What would happen to your infinite sea with infinite atmosphere if it had a causal boundary like the universe does ?

The ultimate bound state is a Black Hole. BHs do not lower entropy; information is 'stored' in Planck-sized domains on the surface of the Event Horizon, in accordance to the Bekenstein-Hawking relation. It is this dynamic equilibrium ( making Studiot happy ) that accounts for BHs having a characteristic temperature, and therefore, black body ( Hawking ) radiation, as there is a flux through the surface of the EH. The 'final' equilibrium is when the BH evaporates. Similarly, should protons decay into fundamental particles, so will neutrons as they have nothing to keep them happy in nucleii. So no atoms. Yeah, no transistor radios at the end of the universe.

Sooo ... A very large ( and increasing in the case of 'learning' )number of optimized responses, coupled with a web search process. Certainly 'Artificial', but not what I would label "Intelligence". ( nice 'breakdown', by the way Sensei )

V'ger and Nomad ( from Star Trek ) beg to differ ...