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Bitcoin Mining Hindering Search For Alien Life, Scientists Claim
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Posted on 02/20/2018 11:46:35 AM PST by nickcarraway

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To: dfwgator
Christianity and belief in alien beings are mutually exclusive.

How so? Does the Bible answer this clearly and directly?

41 posted on 02/20/2018 1:05:19 PM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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To: BipolarBob

I believe it does.


42 posted on 02/20/2018 1:08:30 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

One form of BS collides with another form of BS.


43 posted on 02/20/2018 1:10:45 PM PST by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: nickcarraway
Why not pass a law requiring them to?

And pass a law requiring them to speak Russian while we are at it.

That way we could indict them when we found them.

44 posted on 02/20/2018 1:10:53 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: nickcarraway

Bitcoins are going to crash and we are the only intelligent live in this galaxy.


45 posted on 02/20/2018 1:10:54 PM PST by samtheman (Sessions is a criminal avoiding prosecution by occupying the AG office.)
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To: nickcarraway

I tried it but my Pick and Shovel were too big and kept breaking the computer


46 posted on 02/20/2018 1:15:26 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: dfwgator
I believe it does.

The reality is that the bible says that God is an extraterrestrial -- the alien being you do't want to believe in.

You don't even have to go very far into it. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Seems pretty clear that God did not come from this planet.

47 posted on 02/20/2018 1:18:43 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: CurlyDave

“The Earth” as in the ONLY planet with life.


48 posted on 02/20/2018 1:19:56 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Welcome to the world of supply and demand. Sorry if nobody is in a hurry to fund your decades long and totally fruitless quest for a signal that you aren’t going to find.


49 posted on 02/20/2018 1:25:36 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: BipolarBob

Could you prove there are no unicorns?


50 posted on 02/20/2018 1:30:24 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: CurlyDave

“The reality is that the bible says that God is an extraterrestrial — the alien being you do’t want to believe in”

Not really. A deity and an extraterrestrial are two completely different concepts.


51 posted on 02/20/2018 1:31:55 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

If advanced life were out there, it would be way, way out there - it might send a radio message in response to detecting our own radio emissions, but even that would take years of travel time. A goodly number of years, actually, for the round trip.

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Even if that’s true, I’m contrasting us searching for them with them searching for us. That’s why I don’t care if Bitcoin is taking all the computer time from ET searching.


52 posted on 02/20/2018 1:44:03 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: nickcarraway

This article title is completely wrong, you can’t mine Bitcoin with GPU’s, it’s all being done with dedicated ASIC machines such as the Antminer S9 or the Avalon 741 or the Dragonmint or some other ASIC miner. ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit. GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit. Two completely different things.

What is able to be mined with GPU’s is Ethereum and a whole lot of other Alt-coins. But Bitcoin isn’t the culprit here.


53 posted on 02/20/2018 1:55:31 PM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: dfwgator
Well the good news is that there’s no such thing as Alien life.

Unless you know what Alien life looks like, how would you know it isn't there ?

54 posted on 02/20/2018 1:56:54 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: rjsimmon
Given the vast distances from system to system, any extra-terrestrial civilization communicating via radio are long gone. If they have developed technology beyond RF, then SETI does not detect it, making their endeavor useless except for the possibility of discovery. If (big IF), such a civilization exists, there is absolutely no way to communicate with, let alone meet with, said civilization. If all they seek is discovery via RF, then it should have been discovered by now.

Sure... WE are in a system isolated by vast distances, but not all planets are.

We are on a thinly populated wisp of the outer edge of our own galaxy.

Imagine what it's like further in where stars are not nearly as far apart.

55 posted on 02/20/2018 1:59:39 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Imagine what it's like further in where stars are not nearly as far apart.

But that ain't us. So, no amount of imagining is going to change that and move us closer to another solar system.

56 posted on 02/20/2018 2:15:10 PM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Boogieman

I have never claimed there are no unicorns.


57 posted on 02/20/2018 2:23:03 PM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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To: nickcarraway
Can someone tell me why all this computer power and electricity use is for? Surely there is now plenty of computer overhead to run their block chain security system.

If all of that excess computer power is just for mining, then what is really the point. I assume they are chasing diminishing returns after a while. Wasn't there a set limit to the total amount of bitcoins?

58 posted on 02/20/2018 2:33:26 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Human stupidity and foolishness will persist until the Lord returns.

My opinion of these mining activities was fairly well expressed. They are a variation of get rich quick: get rich by neither working nor producing goods and services. If they were ever productive in any way (say if the problems solved were those people were renting time on the network to solve) they’d probably die on the vine eventually rather than go on and on merely consuming resources.


59 posted on 02/20/2018 5:38:24 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

I am always humbled to meet someone such as yourself who knows everything.


60 posted on 02/20/2018 5:39:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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