They’ve released less than 1% of the files. Still plenty of things we have yet to see.

Yea it was mostly supposed to be tongue in cheek :P Not actually mad or anything

Yes, I acknowledge all of that. Which is why I was correcting you when you said every one of us is descended from immigrants looking for a better life. It’s wrong to act like they are completely gone, not because it makes our ancestors look bad, but because it erases the people and cultures who are still here with us and persevere.

You can also just disable it, which is much more secure. You can have it not open your locked phone but still be used to verify it’s you in apps which is also nice.

I mean, native Americans/native indians still exist. So not everyone

Find someone with a 3d printer. Your local library might have one even. I’m printing 55 whistles every 6 hours for around 7 cents a whistle.

So as far as I know, and I am no expert to be clear, the whole reason Europa even has a liquid ocean under the ice is because of tidal heating. Where the moon itself is pushed and pulled, heating it up immensely because of the friction of that action. So there would be no “air pockets” as such, because the ice itself is the thing creating the ocean. And due to ice being less dense than water the ocean would actually be exerting pressure on the ice mantle, not the other way around. I think this is one of the driving forces of the cryovolcanism found on Europa.

Why would you assume the ice isn’t being squished/stretched as well?

Not certain about the mars trilogy but there is a collapsing space elevator in the foundation series (at least on the show, haven’t read the books yet.)

I think that depends on how big the tether is tbh. It has to be usable as an elevator so it can’t just be a thin cable. And your scenario is assuming that it would be cut down near the base, if it’s damaged anywhere higher up anything below the cut will fall down to earth.

Ah thanks, I was a dingus and looked up the diameter instead of the circumference. Still doesn’t really matter where you build it. No matter what it’s fucking up a a good portion of the equator if it falls.

Nevermind our reputation. I don’t think our society itself will recover from this.

By the necessities of its design a space elevator has to reach geostationary orbit, which would make it tall enough to wrap around the planet twice if it fell. Wouldn’t really matter if you built it on a west coast or not.

You just said that no one else is the problem except the people who voted for the Democrats. And you think that’s an irrefutable case? You are delusional or intentionally trolling.

Ah, gotcha

Moving isn’t exactly cheap, some people really don’t have that option

Do you not understand the concept of time?

There are already users of these though? Meshtastic has plenty of nodes in the US afaik and is perfectly useable. It uses long range radios for communication so you only need a few people in a state to do it for it to work.

Dude, they just shot a woman in the face 4 times for driving NEAR them with literally no consequences. You think they won’t just open fire on a group if one of them gets hit with pepper spray?

ICE has literally started going door to door in Minnesota looking for immigrants and activists. It’s already starting, people need to be protecting their privacy now.