Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Cool Worlds" channel.

  1. Our sun may also be unusual even when compared to other suns of the same type in regards to it being so relatively benign.
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  2. I think they would decide that their nuclear arsenal is obsolescent (indeed, that mutual assured destruction was itself an obsolescent concept) and either come up with even more dangerous weapons (like using the technology as a weapon rather than as an anti-weapon) or finding some way to resolve their differences, perhaps by both sides simultaneously developing this technology and thus creating a stalemate like existed in cold war 1. This stalemate would exist at least until one side developed new and more advanced technology, in which case the arms race continues all over again until one side either goes bankrupt or decides to go to war.
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  3. Great show, great host, great guest! The subject matter is an interesting area of study and holds promise. Keep up the good work, someday you might win the Nobel prize.
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  4.  @elmacho2789  Submoon sounds okay.
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  5. Random mutation favoured by the environment. Reproduction is unaffected or effected in a positive way by the mutation (or its deleterious effects are slow to show?). In other words, it behaves the way it does because it can. There is no goal, no purpose.
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  6. Moat. :D
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  7. The current economic system may need to radically change first before any further progress can be made. Our current economic system seems to be built on an assumption that infinite growth using current technology is possible and that such growth can occur while remaining indifferent to the negative consequences (externalities); an economic system that leads to extreme concentration of wealth, power and knowledge while creating artificial scarcity and inbuilt obsolescence (unnecessary waste). Such a system may not, in the long run, be sustainable.
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  8. You're assuming without question the idea of progress and that it is inevitable and universal and involves constant technological development, seeing it as both possible and desirable. There may, however, be constraints on development, or development may go through long periods of stagnation lasting centuries or millenia.
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  9. The West considers itself more advanced in strictly technological terms than everybody else. Would you say then that we in the West still look on those in the Global South as "like cattle"? We've certainly treated them like cattle in the past (chattel slavery, colonial conquest, racism) but… do we STILL think of them in those terms? If the answer is no, if the answer is that we can and have changed our opinions, is it outside the realms of the possible that aliens - because of and not in spite of their more advanced technology - could do the same? I for one do not think an alien intelligence would think of us as cattle for the simple reason that if they know we have technology then by that reason alone they would realise that we too are intelligent and would see in us a kindred spirit.
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  10.  @Noorthia  Does that make it quite unusual for this type of star?
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  11. Let's start by simply asking the obvious question: who, or what, created the creator? If you can't answer that question satisfactorily then your theory can be dismissed as being in the realm of the metaphysical (theology, philosophy) and not in the realm of hard, falsifiable science.
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