And the fact that layer is so compacted confirms how quickly any evidence would be distorted and buried.
]]>So if I was looking for evidence from a long time ago, I'd be looking for people who built on granite or areas that were quickly covered due to a disaster like Pompeii. (Roman concrete can last thousands of years BTW, due to different ingredients).
Secondly, if you're looking more than 10 million years in the past, a lot of evidence might be swept into the crust due to tectonic plate movement. So any evidence would have been destroyed or buried so deep to be impossible to find. Unless of course they were on Greenland. Which is where I would look.
Hence the only other alternative. you would have to hope that your civilization at least got to the Moon where some evidence of their existence might be found (due to the relatively stable surface except for the occasional bombardment). Otherwise it would be practically impossible to prove they existed in the past.
]]>Here's hoping that the renewable transition happens at a much faster rate, although efficiency and insulation (for the UK at least) appears to be the biggest bang for the buck. In the US, since I've upgraded our systems and put a solar roof on the house (which wasn't cheap but I assumed would pay off over time) our bill is between $15 to $35 per month. And I could have made more if the Tesla salesperson had explained one line item on my contract in which I apparently gave Tessa rights to sell my carbon credits. That's worth $1200 per year to them (and to me if I could get the contract nulled). Trying to sort that out on the phone was uphill work (gave up for now).
]]>During the summer we spent five weeks in Europe, three of them in the England. What was quickly apparent was that the public still to be almost as clueless about what trouble the country is in, partly due to effective distractions by the Daily Fail and Express (I lost count how many Brits were telling me that Biden had dementia, which they clearly got from those rags, yet from my perspective, he's just passed four of the biggest bills in recent US history that actually help people, and I'm not seeing the same competence on the UK side).
Which brings us to the present. The UK has perfected the art with Boris Johnson of just winging it and hoping for the best. That's not going to happen this time around. And it's hard to see who is going to be able to stabilize the situation with an election two years away. As far as I can tell, the only hope is that the Tories decide it's better to lose the election, then blame everyone else for the mess the country is in that they caused, so they can sneak back in in 2027.
The other aspect I'm pretty confident about is that none of the ministers who handed out those massive no-bid contracts are going to jail for corruption. More likely booted upstairs to the House of Lords.
]]>But you know what won’t change? Travel. Planes will still fly at the same speed, like they have for the last 59 up years.
]]>I sometimes think that's where the GOP got some of it's voter suppression ideas from.
As a side note this is where bribery came in. If you were a wealthy Roman you had about 8 hours to convince the plebs to vote for you (either by money, food, or drink). I often thought that was the missing part of ST. It has the strict regime of the Roman Republic, but none of it's flaws. And we all know the flaws would be there. In terms of a long term solution, it wouldn't last, because sooner or later, a general is going to suggest maybe the problem isn't the bugs, or the skinny's but a different division. Where would be the Rubicon in that scenario I wonder? Lunar orbit?
]]>One part I wonder about, is travel. I.e. If people start seeing how much better off the Europeans are, will that change the equation?
If there is No Deal I think that increases the chance of a coup against Boris as the Tories start infighting over the blame and opportunities available. He’ll be gone by the end of 21 at the latest.
]]>Now I can't remember if it was Apollo 11 but on some of the flights the astronauts could see the Moon while they were waiting on the ground for launch.
I suggest watching the full length version of Apollo 11 documentary has its highly accurate and show's exactly what the astronauts can see at all times.
Surely the bigger problem would be when he's picking up the astronauts, as every 25 minutes or so he's behind the Moon and hence changing back into a human?
Hope this helps.
]]>The other kicker related to it is that Cameron had in his manifesto that ex-pats would be given the vote, and that’s one of the things that if he’d done might have switched the vote.
In the meantime, like the other Brexiters such as Farage, Lawson etc..., we’re all getting EU passports or moving our money out of the country despite the financial cost as frankly, we don’t trust the Tories. .
]]>We already get this with Outlook. One employee accidentally linked her personal address book with her business one (getting it wiped when she gets a new phone) then suddenly you can't use your iPhone Mail program to check your work email, it has to be the stupid Outlook app.
On a brighter note, fastest thing to stop me checking my work email....
]]>By any chance is this view inspired by the following report over the weekend?
"Whitehall sources say the presumptive prime minister was left "visible shaken" after being briefed by civil servants to expect civil unrest if he goes through with his threat"
"A senior government source revealed that importing fresh food though Dover would only be the third highest priority in the event of no-deal, with clean water only fifth. Top of the list are life-saving drugs, followed by medical devices and fresh food. Nuclear power plant parts are then given priority over the import of chemicals to purify drinking water...."
]]>Where I disagree with your scenario is people moving to more denser communities. It might be the opposite because most of the remaining jobs people can do will be 'virtual' so it won't matter where you go or live. So yes we might need a bigger room for virtual reality but I don't think it will be for entertainment, I think it will be for work. So the suburbs will continue but we small localized centers to grab coffee with real humans etc... We see this in DC already. Traffic is so bad, quite a few people telecommute two days a week. And why do people live where they do? Schools. So whatever happens to the way we live is going to be closely connected to how schools develop over the next few decades.
The other thing I wonder about is mobility. As more and more of our belongings and memories become virtual, you won't need to shift much stuff to move to a new location. So maybe the home of the future will be more like those company apartments that you switch from city or city. Everything is in the same place. (the backpage of the FT on Saturday talked about that, as the writer just moved to the US and the moving people couldn't believe it really only had a couple of suitcases as he spends all his money on experiences, not belongings).
Bathrooms won't have baths either, just showers, unless you're excessively rich as culture starts to frown of inefficient water usage.
I could probably think of a few more things but this is a start :-)
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