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Do we have something to transform the thin CO2 atmosphere to a thin oxygen-rich one in a reprise of what happened on Earth. What is the best?
01 January 1970 1,148 2 View
1. In quantum mechanics events are attached to probabilities. However in General Relativity time is "distortable." Thus probabilities change and may be increased. In Penrose Objective Reduction...
01 January 1970 1,686 8 View
What do you consider lowest aspect of consciousness that is not significantly shared by other things? What is its nature? Why do you think so? Are there a few alternatives you consider quite...
01 January 1970 6,452 20 View
This is actually a trivial question and I'm just being mischievous. It turns on the shades of meaning of both "idea" and "exist." Mathematically, a concept exists whether anyone has happened...
01 January 1970 8,621 6 View
Pyramidal neurons have undergone substantial evolution even from (ancestors of) mice to rhesus monkeys. They are largely the same all over Layer 3 of mouse cortex, but layer 3 rhesus neurons...
01 January 1970 4,482 0 View
Most of the nearby stars are red dwarfs and these present exoplanets possibly suitable for us as far as we know. Yet Earth does not orbit one of these, but a less common yellow dwarf. This...
01 January 1970 2,485 3 View
The synaptic gap is the same size as wavelength of ultraviolet light. such as produced by sunlight of an earlier Earth. Also some biophotons are UV.
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For those interested: A revamp of the Internet is under way to cover shortcomings interfering with expansion into the Solar System and beyond. While extremely rugged, a few assumptions are built...
01 January 1970 6,161 1 View
With Artemis I launched and back home, this is getting real. How do we Terraform Mars? I believe it is probably possible.
01 January 1970 2,787 25 View
Well, how about that? Two days after posting my article identifying layer 5 pyramidals (and specifically, components of their greater axons) as the site of subjective experience The Location of...
01 January 1970 9,697 6 View
Because we will be able to build computer systems as effective as people but without any actual feeling capacity, we will have no ethical problems as to how they are treated. It remains that they...
01 January 1970 2,999 1 View
Two of the most interesting human spacecraft of our time, the SpaceX Starship and the NASA Gateway lunar space station are soon to join.
01 January 1970 2,199 1 View
