A chinese has much less per capita emission than let's say someone from a western country.
I think there should be a equal global limit on how much per capita CO2 your can release and if you exceed you should pay a penalty and if you are lower that limit you should be able to sell those credits.
Harsh penalties are the only way we can fix this issue unfortunately.
Wow, that is a really sophomoric analysis. Considering interstellar travel to be infeasible on the basis of duration or distance is a narrow perspective. If we lived much longer, or if our metabolism was much slower, it wouldn't be as much of an issue.
The amount of energy required is the only sensible perspective from which to analyze interstellar travel. If you make things really small, again, it's not much of a problem.
The author also neglects the time dilation. Go fast enough and the time dilation takes care of the duration.
Give my team the resources and I'll put a few billion base pairs of Picard's DNA into orbit around Proxima long before Daenerys is riding a dragon.
Agreed, he's confusing FTL travel, which has profound theoretical objections, with general interstellar space travel, which has no such issues, space rocks like Oumoumoua do it all the time. To a million-year-old, immortal alien ET, a journey of a hundred or a thousand years is trivial. An absolute paucity of imagination here.
Not only that, but there are quite a few scientifically sound concepts that escape the tyranny of the rocket equation. Pre-seeded trajectories, particle beam propulsion, sails etc. Breaking the wall of light might not be possible but beating the current rockets by orders of magnitudes is enough for interstellar travel. And that is only an engineering problem.
My personal favorite these days is innumerable 'smart' pellets, bacteria sized, steering themselves using albedo-changing surfaces toward the ship's magnetic sail to transfer their momentum, allowing for constant acceleration.
The lesson of this documentary, and of the age, should be, "It doesn't matter who says it, without evidence it is meaningless."
Many people cling to the absurd fantasy that those in power are better, smarter, and more knowledgeable than ourselves. This is absolutely false.
Hilary Clinton, for example, co-wrote a fictional thriller whose most interesting revelation was that she, as a former Secretary of State, had absolutely no idea, at a detail level, what composes a "dirty bomb", nor what the purpose of such a device would be (in addition to creating terror, it is "area denial").
The trope of "This guy worked for the military industrial complex and has secret knowledge of UFOs" is so overused in this genre that it has become ridiculous. If the dude has a piece of alien technology <i>in his hand</i> that we can examine in detail, then maybe he has something worth listening to. Otherwise it's just the same monstrous abuse of the gullible as the Jesus lie.
And video is no longer photography. It's data. That "tic tac" is not an image of an alien craft. It's data. With a glitch. It's not visual, and it's not analog. You just don't know how to properly interpret digital data in visual form.
I know you want to believe in something bigger, but until you realize the universe is fundamentally chaotic and there is a reason for absolutely nothing, you're never going to escape the prison of ignorance you have created for yourselves.
I really want to be encouraging and I applaud your effort, but Jesus, we had the Geiss plugin for Winamp in 1998. Maybe have a look at that and Milkdrop to see what is possible and up your game a little bit.
