Hunter232

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[–] Hunter232 34 points 1 year ago (31 children)

The moon is a great launching point. And the water (ice) could be converted to fuel for rockets.

Basically with a permanent moon base we could send much bigger payloads, could refuel rockets before sending them out further into the solar system, could set up observatories that wouldn't be affected by the atmosphere, could collect solar energy and send it back to earth via microwaves. Not to mention all the geological science, spelunking, and moon golf we could be doing.

There's all kinds of things we could do.

[–] Hunter232 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Hunter232 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe get your niacin level checked? If you are low in niacin your body will use tryptophan to make it. And tryptophan is also used to make serotonin. So low niacin could mean low tryptophan which could mean low serotonin which could mean low melatonin. I'm not on APs, I spend time in nootropics communities. So definitely check with your doctor. Might also look in to n-acetyl-cysteine, however I'd put more stock in the niacin angle.

[–] Hunter232 3 points 1 year ago

Because my laptop has no screen, thus I'm blind until the Nvidia driver loads.

[–] Hunter232 2 points 1 year ago

Well let's start by examining the phrase "free will"

The term free has at least two different meanings in common language.

A) free as in beer ( free from cost) B) free as in speach (free from control)

Both of these could be broken down more (e.g. Monetary cost, entropic costs, mental cost and societal control, individual control, physical control... Etc)

Now, "will" is a bit more tricky. In this context we generally use it to mean "choice" However desire, and intention also get mentioned in the definitions.

  1. desire
  2. intention
  3. choice

When commonly discussed I would say people tend to talk about B3(the ability to choose without external physical control)

I would argue 3 requires 2 which requires 1

So now we discuss B1 - are we free to pick our desires.

This I find to be interesting. We often see people desiring things which seem foolish. Foolish as is Unwise. What makes something foolish? Seems to me foolishness is caused by a lack of data and poor modeling.

At this point my phone battery is at 6% So I'll cut my response short. I see no truly free will. I think our desires can be shaped over time via our input (previous choices) however we can't roll a die and pick our desires.

I don't think this is a bad thing. Just maybe not ideal but what is in this world?

[–] Hunter232 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand the mechanism they expect to use to draw the energy back out of the water heaters and the article doesn't seem to mention it. TEGs arent very efficient. Water heaters don't get hot enough for steam generators. I guess you could use the hot water to supplement house hold heating via radiators. But that becomes a complex system. Anybody got any ideas about what they might be talking about?

[–] Hunter232 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From F to C

(F-32)*5/9=C

From C to F

(C*9/5)+32=F

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