A reporter for the Houston Chronicle claimed to have Chop's Snoopy fandom straight from the source . . .
Considering Charles Schulz's retirement, this is an ideal time to get Al Chop to tell how he drafted Snoopy for a special NASA assignment.
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Chop said he was, at the time, director of the public affairs office for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. And, like an estimated 355 million other people in 75 countries, he was a fan and avid reader of Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. He especially liked the dog who often assumed a pilot's role atop the doghouse.
"Snoopy was a flier," Chop said. "No reason he couldn't become an astronaut, too."
You are claiming that the median age in China is 52 or did I read this wrong? That would be beyond fake news level of statement (for my reading of the meaning)
The current median age of China is about 40, which is not great for their context, but a world apart from 52.
> It happens to literally every existence of life across the universe because the final emergent property of energy gradients 100% leads to pure logic machines.
This sentence has way too many assumptions doing the heavy lifting.
“Pure logic machines” is not a thing because literally, there are things that are uncomputable (both in the sense of Turing machine’s uncomputability, and in the sense that some functions are out of scope for a finite being to compute, think of Busy Beaver)
To put it the other way, your assumption is that machines (as we commonly uses the term, rather than scifi Terminator”) are more energy efficient than human in understanding the universe. We do not have any evidence nor priori for that assumption.
What is it about understanding the universe that makes it such an axiomatic global objective? Sure for many of us myself included it's as all pervasive as the air we breathe... But sometimes I do wonder if it is actually all that correlated with my well-being.
A better way to approach it is that mother nature favors things that don't die, and machines offer the killer combination of durability and repairability. Once you can add intelligence to machines, they should be her choice lifeform.
Doesn't matter, they can be readily repaired and even upgraded.
Humans on the other hand were very clearly _not_ designed to be very repairable. They have a self healing system that's very good, but it sucks compared to a system that can be externally repaired.
The celebration now mainly focuses on “unification”, with some slight flavor of “independence/ liberation of the South”. The US is not even mentioned. So the idea is that we celebrate the finality of having a unified and independent country after a very long period of not being so.
The message is very deliberate and has been gradually more focused on the “unification” aspect since at least 2014-2015.
> I'm a software developer by training with an interest in genetics. I currently run a startup working on multiplex gene editing technology.
This is the author’s own description of his expertise.
I have to look it up since I am not able to validate (by myself) the very strong claim he made in the beginning paragraph. I am comfortable not reading the rest. The claim is:
> Our knowledge has advanced to the point where, if we had a safe and reliable means of modifying genes in embryos, we could literally create superbabies. Children that would live multiple decades longer than their non-engineered peers, have the raw intellectual horsepower to do Nobel prize worthy scientific research, and very rarely suffer from depression or other mental health disorders.
The same fictional universe that gave us Khan, also gave us the characters of Julian Bashir, Una Chin-Riley, and La'an Noonien-Singh all having to deal with a socity that, in universe, had faced this as a history lesson rather than as a fantasy.
Were the Ferengi a warning against American capitalism? The Bajorans a promotion of terrorist tactics to expell imperialist colonisers? The Changelings a warning against… plastic surgery?
This banks on people's selfishness. I above everybody else. My kids will rule others, outlive them, outsmart them. Extremely dangerous mindset, but very common among power brokers and billionaires (and not only). They are not nice people, not a single one of them, doesn't matter if old or new money.
For best of common of common folks (including everybody here), probably the best course of action would be to shoot these people if they ever get a chance to actually deliver real stuff. I know, beyond extreme, but I struggle to find another actually working bulletproof solution.
Anyway it will eventually creep, but not via people from article. It will be disguised as treating all those genetic deficiencies and inborne diseases in babies, any parent can agree that we would do almost anything for our kids and turn a blind eye on many topics otherwise seemed as no-go. In parallel with military, and then its all over society and you have Gattaca.
These children are absolutely cursed from birth, also. Being smart enough to fully see the world around you doesn't help when you're raised by a monster.
That is why it is very common for vacations (of people who stays at Four Seasons) to start or end a business trips: I am already there, might as well get my family to join and try some new foods.
