Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

Assemble macroscopic materials with bond energies averaging 10 KeV not 10 eV.

https://x.com/AloneHemant/status/1852757181927698686/photo/1 Assemble kilograms or metric tons of materials with bond energies averaging 10 KeV not 10 eV. There are many such stable materials with active containment. Asking for new fuels and materials to act like old ones is limiting the search for useful things. It just has to be reliable, practical, and useful. It does
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What human cultures will survive too easily homogenized global society, solar system exploration and development?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/699390982355776 My Comment:  What human cultures will survive too easily homogenized global society, solar system exploration and development? In the United States, and probably in many places, perhaps a lot of people do not know how to use, or the advantages of tatami. I can appreciate your skill and dedication. But in a world with
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Effectively eternal species colonizing galaxies

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1412120169086103/ My Comment: Effectively eternal species colonizing galaxies Once an evolved species can make AIs to store knowledge and act, those entities are effectively eternal and can “live” long enough to colonize galactic and larger regions. So, most galaxies might each have their own civilizations held together by systems, but populated by natural species as
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OpenAI and Richard talk about space, data and global open systems

I am looking at Solar Dynamics Observatory images. During the year does the earth (and earth based telescopes) move above and below the ecliptic? Does the sub earth point of the visible center of the sun change in solar latitude during the year? ChatGPT said: ChatGPT Yes, the Earth does move slightly above and below
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