There’s some pretty interesting ideas for floating cities on Venus. There’s a part of the atmosphere that’s both the right temperature and pressure to make it work.
It’s a common mistake that the warp core is the primary power plant for the whole ship. That’d be wasteful, as they use fusion plants to make antimatter in the first place.
TNG tech manual states that starbase antimatter production is around 25% efficient. Starships can make their own, but it implies that it’s even less efficient than a starbase.
Most of the ship gets power from fusion. Those can’t dump enough energy at once to power higher warp factors (limit is maybe warp 3), though, so you use energy while not at warp to make antimatter, which can then be dumped into the warp core later.
Shields will work fine with just the fusion plants.
But why did the Vulcan join when their old antagonists are part of it? A pretty good answer is that they need to make sure humans don’t ruin everything.
This isn’t quite as cynical as it looks at first glance. They saw that humans could go either way. Keep them from turning too many stars into touruses, and they’ll be capable of greatness.
An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that’s not even a particularly high resolution printer.
The whole Twitter fiasco suggests Tesla and SpaceX know exactly how to do this. Managing their idiot CEO is part of the training. Existing Twitter management didn’t know how to do that, and we haven’t seen the last of the consequences yet.
Ocean seeding may not work at all. The nutrients available are already just right, and adding more will only increase local growth at the expense of sucking up nutrients that would have spread elsewhere. Total sunk co2 wouldn’t increase, and may even decrease.
No, it’s nothing like that. Nature doesn’t care if a given gram of co2 was recently released or not. It only cares about the sum total. If the carbon capture schemes actually did grab a gram for every gram released, and then keep it stored for at least a century, that’d work fine.
It’s just that they almost certainly don’t. They’re way too cheap for the best capture systems we have, and they’re not necessarily sequestering that carbon to keep it out of the atmosphere for more than a few years.
We are almost certainly going to need actual carbon sequestration. We’re too close to emitting too much already.
Obama went without one a single time in the 2008 campaign and got lambasted for it. It was never a thing before 9/11, but now it’s just another bit the flag waving crayon eaters of the Republican party can use to pretend they’re the only patriots.
Bcrypt is slow on purpose; all these methods are. More importantly, though, bcrypt is very well studied. Scrypt and argon2 had to catch up, but should be fine at this point.
It will rain somewhere. Generally places that already have rain. If you’re counting global amount, we have plenty of fresh water, but we don’t have it in the places where we need it.
I had gone through Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming before, and feel like that gave me all the foundational stuff I needed to understand what React is doing. The new third edition is in JavaScript, and while I haven’t read it, I imagine that would be an even better match.