/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3922769
Space is currently not very profitable. Only shit like Virgin Galactic and the other companies rushing for suborbital flights have been drawing massive financial interest. This means that only rich space enthusiasts will first jump on asteroid mining, and space enthusiasts tend to be pretty world-centric people.

>>3900668
The sooner we get a cure for aging, the sooner we make them healthy young individuals again.

I'll leave the Hitler-parade for you to exterminate a few hundred million senior citizens, as that's pretty much the only other way.

>>3523806
>We'd have to strip mine the meteor belt and maybe another damn planet.Probably Mars, it's the closest, and since it doesnt seem to be geologically active, it wont be very useful to us in a colonization sense- Mars will never be more than a barren wasteland, even if were to live 10 lifespans.

Fuck off, you're not laying a finger on Mars.

>>3274344
>Look, robots already took over some jobs, and those people displaced went into other ones!

>There's NO chance of technology becoming to cheap and efficient to displace 50% of the population with not enough adequate work to replace it for the relatively uneducated workers. Absolutely no chance at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Fxp3HK6DI

>>3219906
/sci/ loves ponies.

Go back to /b/, or at the very least post Twilight doing vaguely scientific things.

>>3077620
Consumption does not matter, sustainability matters. We could keep our level of consumption if we tone down on the planned obsolescence, make full use of plasma gasification technology for recycling ALL waste, and some extra deep sea and asteroid mining for our extra materials.

>>3072820
nope, sorry

>>3011744
>implying /sci/ isn't full of ponies

Popular scientific misconceptions that piss you off.


I'll start.

>Implying the laws of thermodynamics apply to the Earth.

>watch ponies
>disregard libido

Could deal with it till the final line, then I realised that many people do think like this.

>when will this world burn?

Afternoon /sci/!

/r/ good science books. I've discovered that they're one of the few things I can read comfortably.