We’ve sent probes to other worlds. There’s a very small chance we accidentally introduced some of Earths microorganisms to other planets that would still be around in 5 billion years after the sun. We’ve sent all kinds of stuff to Mars which will still be around when our sun turns into a Red Giant eating Mercury, Venus, and Earth. However Mars will have courtside seats to the sun at that point and be baked in high intensity heat and radiation, so I wouldn’t have much hope of any life we introduced there surviving.

We’ve also sent probes into Jupiter. There its unlikely anything could live we brought, but who knows? Lastly we put a lander on Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Its not very hospitable to Earth life there though. Its our best bet though. The only other chances life from Earth would survive is all of the probes we’ve sent out into interstellar space.

I can’t think of any version of immortality that wouldn’t eventually be a living hell.

Being immortal doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t feel discomfort or pain. Even if you do have a version that doesn’t feel pain or discomfort, you could still be trapped, unable to move, in complete darkness, for all eternity.

Step 3. Hope that if people are given the ability that they can live without consuming anything

If human immortality is widespread to a larger population, its even worse. People stop dying, but resources don’t increase. Some versions of immortality also mean humanity becomes sterile. So the population never decreases because people alive today will still exist, but never another new generation.

Step 4. Did i immortal so well now we are all going to have to figure out how to inhabit the interior of the sun.

An immortal “human inhabiting the sun” will mean a human the enters the outer corona, but never having their flesh burn because of the magic immortality. However all your clothes would be burned off long ago. So it would be a bunch of naked immortal humans slowly descending toward the core of the sun eventually being wrapped around the dense pure-neutron core where the affects of gravity would be 100 billion times Earth gravity. You’d stick to it unable to move a single muscle. Matter would be pressing again you all over your body at that same strength. Eventually pure neutrons would encase you inside the core of the star. you’d be stuck in the solid heart of a star for all of eternity.

If we had a larger sun, you might have had the chance to escape when the sun goes supernova and be cast out into the galaxy, but you’ve got bad luck to be stuck in our solar system and our sun isn’t big enough to explode as supernova. Instead, our sun will eventually become a white dwarf, a small star slowing bleeding its remaining heat out into space. This process will take literally trillions of years. Eventually when that heat is gone our sun will be a black dwarf. We have no idea what happens after black dwarf because none exist because the universe isn’t old enough yet! Our universe has only been around for 13.8 billion years.

So I hope you enjoy your immortality stuck inside the heart of a cooling star unable to move a muscle with the rest of naked humanity mixed in with you.

I’ll be keep my mortality knowing I’ll be happily gone in less than 50 years, thanks.

How long will it take for the moon to drift far enough away from earth that the lunar month extends by a day? Or two days?

Not positive, but probably never. The explanation is even more weird. Given 50 billion years, the Earth rotation would slow and would become tidal locked so that one side of Earth is always facing the moon. The other side of Earth would never see the moon. However, in only 5 billion years our sun will expand and engulf all the inner planets including the Earth and the moon.

This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:

…a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:

… Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:

…and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)

my whatsapp profile picture shows me with an Israel flag around my shoulders

…and…

I literally feel like I’m around a bunch of brainwashed people

I think another thing IBM was counting on was OS/2 Warp came out about 6 months before Win95 so folks were expecting a radical change in OS.

“but at least you got free email and a homepage so you could put up HTML pages with animated GIFs“

Aw happier days. So much creativity and the ability to communicate with other humans. Meeting randoms was a fun gamble!

95% of people would put an “Under construction” gif and never another update to that web space.

The first web browser was free!! NCSA Mosaic! However since few new users had download capabilities (because they never used command line FTP before), there were software distributes making copies and selling those on store shelves for a few dollars.

To beat Netscape, Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with the third edition of Windows 95.

Not quite accurate. Yes, at the time Windows 95 came out Netscape Navigator Personal Edition was selling on shelves for about $40-$50. If you bought Netscape Navigator Gold, it came with the Netscape browser and and WYSIWYG HTML editor which was a big deal back then because otherwise you’re using notepad to make your website.

Other WYSIWYG HTML editor sitting next to this on the self would be products like Hotdog or Hot METAL Pro:

However, Windows 95 at launch did NOT ship with Internet Explorer. For the launch release of Win95 to get Internet Explorer 1.0 you had to buy the addon package “Microsoft Plus: Companion for Windows 95” for $49:

Internet Explorer 1.0 sucked and Netscape was far superior for the day.

One other artifact from those days. There was another GUI operating system that was still around back then called OS/2. This was an IBM product from the 80s, and the last gasp of it occurred right before Win95 came out. IBM released OS/2 Warp (OS/2 3.0). A good chunk of the marketing was that it contained web browser (called WebExplorer). There were unsavy users buying OS/2 Warp thinking it was just an application when it was a whole replacement operating system.

What is the dollar figure of your highest interest bill and its interest rate?

• A common insurance co-pay to see a Primary Care Physician (regular family doctor) is $40. That could mean going to the doctor or not for some folks.

• $20 would pay for five different 30 day prescriptions of common generic prescription drugs.

• $25 ($5 short) would buy more than a month’s worth of insulin.

• $20 will by 35lbs or rice. That’s well over 2 weeks worth of meals (at 2000 calories a day).

• $20 will pay for one month of mobile phone service with unlimited talk and text along with 4GB of data (as well as hotspot functionality)

• $20 would pay for 100 full charges on a very large ebike battery. Thats enough to go 7500 miles of range on average.

Dude, you realize the whole ‘going to the moon’ thing was just a way to convince the public to fund ballistic missile technology?

And this was true for both sides of the 1960s Space Race.

• Sputnik 1 was carried into space by the Soviet Sputnik rocket (an adaptation of the R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) on October 4, 1957 source

• Yuri Gagarin was carried into space on April 12, 1961, by a Vostok 8K72K rocket. The Vostok 8K72K was a three-stage liquid-fueled launch vehicle derived directly from the Soviet Union’s R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) source

There was fierce competition inside the USSR for which rocket technology would be best used for weapons. The whole “exploration” or “civilian use” thing on both sides (USA/USSR) was just window dressing for weapons programs in space.

Just wait until you see how much they waste on unused life insurance!

I know you’re joking, but lots of people buy really bad life insurance products (whole life, universal variable policies) that are a horrible waste of money in 99.9% of people’s situations.

A large-ish term life insurance is fine if you have a family that needs to replace your income if you die early. Other than that, you only need enough money to get your remains put in the ground without burdening your family. Estimate $10k or so for full funeral and burial plot if that is your desire. If you just want cremation and spreading of ashes is much cheaper. If you’ve got the cash for that, you don’t even need a small term policy for that.

$250/year starting investing in 2020 into the regular S&P 500 would be worth $3,703 today. So maybe as much as a month and a half of rent depending on where you live. However the point being is, if the subscription is unused, you’re not getting any value for it. A free month (or more) of rent is something you’ll actually use.

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…and finally…

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These shall be the variable names until the heat death of the universe! Blessed be! So say we all!

It depends on what you mean by robotic mowers. If you mean motors that drive the wheels and you don’t have to walk behind them (or sit on them), yes, these exist without any cloud service. However, if you mean autonomous, then I don’t think those are here yet. The non-cloud robot mowers use human held remote controls.

I can think of one that is autonomous and doesn’t require the cloud for operation, but does require the cloud for the inital setup and mapping. Once it has the map loaded in, it doesn’t need an internet connection.

That pretty well describes 1st generation robo mowers: lawn roombas.

Thankfully they’ve evolved significantly since then and are on 4th generation tech now.

I’m thinking of moving from my higher paying career field to one that will pay me a nearly break even salary (for this living area) because my heart just isn’t in this anymore.

How close are you to retirement? If you increased savings from [high paying career], how much longer would you have to work at it before you could stop working altogether?

I’m old enough to be experiencing this, but I actually like it like this. I had zero desire to own a Labubu when they came out recognizing it as just that generation’s flash-in-the-pan fad like beanie babies was for my generation.

So many online services are sold for things I do not care about so I have zero to manage on those.

I’m not seduced to buy the “latest slightly incremental increase in performance” item for 99% of products out there because I have something that does the job for me already.

Some of today’s pop music styles I don’t like, but there’s thousands of hours of music I do like (including a chunk of new stuff) so I’m not put out.

Its actually kind of great to be immune to so much of the advertising thats out there today because you simply don’t want what they’re selling because they’re targeting the younger generation.

Most people in their 40s are concerned about their plans for retirement are on track when they should be worried about their telomerase.

The primary Oneweb constellation exists right now in orbit. You can buy hardware and service today if you wanted to. Also yes, they continue to expand the constellation.