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Quote from: IamanElfCollaborator on July 02, 2013, 10:56:51 am

Angel/Alistair is the only ship I see.
I'm not THAT sick.

...okay you win there...

I suppose.

Any ships involving Nuriel?

"I lied."

"Really! I hadn't gathered."

... Everyone/Everyone ... Elf thats sick! That includes Angel!

Indeed.

GreatWyrmGold breathes fire!

[Sorry, you must be on the wrong forum. In any case, just wait for the next update I guess.]

"That's what he said."

GreatWyrmGold rolls his eyes at the ElfCollaborator corpse, causing the severed part to fly off in an arc!
The ElfCollaborator corpse has been struck down.
GreatWyrmGold rolls his eyes at Urist McRandom #2, shoving the skull through the brain and tearing apart the brain!
Urist McRandom #2 has been struck down.

I like the idea of a community-controlled AI. Gives waitlisters something to do, encourages them to keep up.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 02, 2013, 10:17:41 am

Quote from: kahn1234 on July 02, 2013, 10:11:44 am

But the fact that the technology growth rate isn't slowing, and shows signs of actually increasing, we wont be seeing the technology crash for a loooooong time.

This reminds me of something from Jared Diamond's Collapse, specifically when he mentioned that societies tend to collapse around their peak of prosperity and population.
I'm not saying we're on the brink of the "crash," but when it happens no one will see it coming.

Maybe, but how would a technology crash happen? Once something has been invented, it cannot be uninvented. Unless you mean we come to a point where we cannot advance as there doesn't seem to be any route to progress through, then i dont see how it could happen.

My point isn't that we're going to go into the Dark Ages again, it's that if there does come a point where we can't invent any more we won't be able to see it coming beforehand...and the decades before are probably going to have some of the highest technological growth rates in history.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 02, 2013, 10:17:41 am

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Why would fusion be massively outdated? what could replace it? Anti-matter maybe, but that is iffy at best. I dont know enough about zero-point energy to comment on that. Cold fusion?

Says the person whose argument is mainly based on Sufficiently Advanced Technology...

Don't avoid the question. What could replace it?

Why shouldn't I avoid the question? You've been doing it this whole time with your "There's centuries in between now and then, they'll probably figure something out" argument.

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Still too little money. If it isn't funded properly, then it will always be 'only a few decades away' and never actually get here. it would be the same for any other technology.

I find that doubtful. I mean, as long as there's one laboratory working on it, progress is going to move forwards.

But only one laboratory would move things along much slower than a dozen laboratories with lots and lots of funding.

Obviously. I was questioning how, even with the allegedly-small sum of three-quarters of a billion euros (not counting non-EU contributions or the ITER program), no progress whatsoever could be made on a subject that could be made if you gave it several billion annually.