Comments by "AstroGremlinAmerican" (@AstroGremlinAmerican) on "" video.

  1. Huge fan of Firefly and Star Trek: Enterprise. Of course, watched the original series multiple times. Favs "A Piece of the Action" the comedy about the gangster planet and, of course, the Hugo winning episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever" when Kirk and Spock face a moral dilemma in 1930's Earth. I was tricked into reading science fact by Isaac Asimov by a gaudy cover that made a book look like a novel. Ended up reading much of Asimov on science and then more science fact. We live in a golden age of discovery and Russia threatens to end it. Real Klingons.
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  2.  @jimroth7927  The concentration of wealth and power seems to be a requirement to build mighty things but it also comes with the negatives. As robber barons go, Musk is relatively mild and sincerely interested in the future of humanity. Some of the very wealthy engage in very dirty dealings that sometimes crash the economy, like repackaging fraudulent loans.
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  3.  @SeeLasSee  It really hinges on President Biden's health. The Biden of 2020 could beat Trump, and did.
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  4. There's a great Ben Hodges interview from last month at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wwu8Ff-SOw
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  5. Wasn't Musk's sin that he didn't meddle enough in Europe's largest war? His satellites were assumed to enable the Sevastopol "Pearl Harbor" attack and didn't. He did meddle by providing Starlink defensive and civilian communications but that was OK with everybody. Musk may take a cue from the much less wealthy Soros and start picking favorites in district attorney elections, likely ones that will prosecute crime more vigorously. Bezos is currently facing anti-monopoly action from the Biden administration. Zuckerberg, Musk, and other social media platform owners face potential revision of Section 230 liability protections, which made them vulnerable to previous government "requests" to ban certain information, e.g., alternative views on COVID. It's not always easy being an oligarch.
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  6. Russians see us as decadent. They were told by the Soviets that sacrifice would bring inevitable progress. So tolerating misery became a virtue, like a hair shirt but for a different faith. The one place they splurge is cheating and bribing one another. Most North Americans would be ashamed (but not many of the wealthiest).
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  7. I must have missed the part about Musk's white supremacy and anti-democratic vision. Soros obviously thinks that his wealth should allow him to undemocratically decide elections for District Attorneys who have turned out to be weak on prosecution of crimes with lopsided harm to minorities.
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  8. ​ @BTinSF  Yes, the average lifespan of a civilization is a major factor in the Drake Equation, used to estimate intelligent life in the Universe. And you of course refer to the theory of the Dyson Sphere, when a civilization becomes sufficiently mature, it dismantles the planets in its solar system to make habitats in the habitable zone, making the star appear primarily in the infrared (heat). We haven't found any Dyson Spheres yet. The existence of our large Moon makes Earth quite special and its absence would have major negative consequences. There is a book about it. Still, the number of galaxies makes intelligent life inevitable and contemporaneous with us, even if advanced civilizations last only a few hundred years.
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  9.  @JakeBroe  The speed of light makes the finding a bit difficult. But they are out there, no question.
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