/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6081282
What kind of absurd machinery today would require 195 million times the power consumption of humanity in the 15th century?

Quite a lot, actually.

Like I've said, several times, you can't predict that our power consumption will stay the same over centuries. Expecially when it rises by significant percentage every fucking year.

You're still stuck to the
>'with infinite power, I can heat up water for my tea pretty fast'
-kind of thingking, instead of
>'with infinite power, we can do physics experiments never dreamed of, launch interstellar probes full auto, boil away too-thick atmospheres at interstellar distances and melt away the Europan ice cover, oh and Mars now has tectonics'
-kind of thinking.

With more power, we can be awesome, instead of being slightly more mundane.