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Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution

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  • D Doctor Phibes
    24 Mar 2022, 11:55

    Anyway, getting back to abortion....

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    George K
    wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 11:59 last edited by
    #41

    @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

    Anyway, getting back to abortion....

    ...and circumcision.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

    D 1 Reply Last reply 24 Mar 2022, 12:05
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      Mik
      wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 12:02 last edited by
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      And Cincinnati chili.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • G George K
        24 Mar 2022, 11:59

        @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

        Anyway, getting back to abortion....

        ...and circumcision.

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        Doctor Phibes
        wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 12:05 last edited by
        #43

        @George-K said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

        @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

        Anyway, getting back to abortion....

        ...and circumcision.

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        I was only joking

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        • D Doctor Phibes
          24 Mar 2022, 11:55

          Anyway, getting back to abortion....

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          Klaus
          wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 12:15 last edited by
          #44

          @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

          Anyway, getting back to abortion....

          Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

          Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

          D M 2 Replies Last reply 24 Mar 2022, 12:39
          • K Klaus
            24 Mar 2022, 12:15

            @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

            Anyway, getting back to abortion....

            Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

            Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

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            Doctor Phibes
            wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 12:39 last edited by
            #45

            @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

            @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

            Anyway, getting back to abortion....

            Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

            Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

            Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

            I was only joking

            K 1 Reply Last reply 24 Mar 2022, 12:46
            • D Doctor Phibes
              24 Mar 2022, 12:39

              @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              Anyway, getting back to abortion....

              Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

              Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

              Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

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              Klaus
              wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 12:46 last edited by
              #46

              @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

              Anyway, getting back to abortion....

              Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

              Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

              Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

              That's not fair. I for one have always argued for the middle ground of making program abortion legal for processes that have consumed less than 3ms of CPU time. Typically, at this point, the process has not yet started any inter-process communication or allocated any persistent data. Arguably, it's not a process yet.

              D 1 Reply Last reply 24 Mar 2022, 12:56
              • K Klaus
                24 Mar 2022, 12:46

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

                That's not fair. I for one have always argued for the middle ground of making program abortion legal for processes that have consumed less than 3ms of CPU time. Typically, at this point, the process has not yet started any inter-process communication or allocated any persistent data. Arguably, it's not a process yet.

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                Doctor Phibes
                wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 12:56 last edited by
                #47

                @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                Once AI-programs are identified as life-forms there's going to be a demand for reparations, and you, my technologically proficient friend, are going to be right at the front of the line.

                That's not fair. I for one have always argued for the middle ground of making program abortion legal for processes that have consumed less than 3ms of CPU time. Typically, at this point, the process has not yet started any inter-process communication or allocated any persistent data. Arguably, it's not a process yet.

                Your epistemological arguments are unconvincing.

                I was only joking

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                • K Klaus
                  24 Mar 2022, 12:15

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                  Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                  Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                  Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

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                  Mik
                  wrote on 24 Mar 2022, 18:16 last edited by
                  #48

                  @Klaus said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Webb Telescope might be able to detect other civilizations by their air pollution:

                  Anyway, getting back to abortion....

                  Did you know that the usage of "Control-C" to abort a program goes back to the DEC operating system for the PDP computers and dates back to the 1960s?

                  Nobody thought about the morality of just aborting operating system processes. And the abortion was not even restricted to processes that were just being launched; any process, even fully matured ones, could be sent the SIGINT signal.

                  I knew that.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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