Posted on 02/20/2018 11:46:35 AM PST by nickcarraway
One of these activities is pointless. Perhaps both.
Later it changed to searching for cancer cures. Then it went away completely.
The currency may be worth something in the short term, but there is no rule that any putative alien civilization has to use radio to communicate.
They got plenty at BestBuy:-)
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/computer-cards-components/video-graphics-cards/abcat0507002.c?id=abcat0507002&ref=30&loc=KW-4327&ksid=73be48cc-dcc9-4d04-8b4f-09a5f7040b36&ksprof_id=3&ksaffcode=2231348&ksdevice=c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyv_R4KK12QIVk0wNCh1utwl6EAAYAiAAEgIr1vD_BwE
Moore's Law.
Well the good news is that there’s no such thing as Alien life.
It makes for great movies and all, but it just isn’t so.
lol
well played
It’s still around. SETIAtHome.
a few years ago I said that here at FR and wow was I ever savaged. but....you are correct.
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.
Why not pass a law requiring them to?
At least they both have two things in common - one being that they’re both just some guys engaging in self-pleasuring in a circular formation and, second, the guys at the top are the only ones who can count on making good money in their chosen endeavor.
Let’s see...search for aliens who want to eat us? Or improve life on earth?
Hard decision, I tell you!
I know a couple of guys at my Coffee Bean who just does this: use wifi to look at cryptocurrency manipulations in the market and they’re serious about it. One of them is an actor on TV ( i forgot which station) and he does this part-time.
Given that Bitcoin has DOUBLED in the past 3 weeks, this GPU problem will only get worse.
Which we won’t be able to find to buy.
The unproductive, pointless, electricity wasting make work that is Bitcoin mining should instead be likened to an activity that has greater socially redeeming value to get coins ... like writing fan fictions.
A gaming pc builder I know just told me about the graphics card and memory shortages now because of mining. Hes quit building til it settles out. Existing g cards worth $$.
Part-time actor + cryptocurrency speculator = future resident of a homeless shelter.
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