Baffled European

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  • Out of this world

    Dr Collier recently made a video on her Youtube channel in which she read through James Dyson’s paper proposing the “Dyson sphere”. Rather than a serious proposition, she demonstrated it was a joke, a satire of the SETI project.

    The SETI logic ran so: if there are alien civilisations like us, they will be using radio transmissions. We should monitor radio in the sky to see if we find somebody.

    Dyson’s version was slightly different: if the aliens were space nazis, they would be megalomaniacal techno-fetishists who would develop something really ridiculous like this sphere collecting all the energy from the sun. We should look for an infra-red shift on stars to see if there are space nazis.

    He was doubtless thinking of the many and varied attempts the nazis made to create magical weapons that would win the war. Rockets, jets, death rays, there were so many of them.

    The US Navy has just announced a new class of battleships. It’s going to be fitted with rail guns and lasers. Military watchers are unanimous in their opinion. Such ships are inappropriate and useless. It’s not merely the operational, design and conceptual flaws in these ships: the USA simply does not have the capacity to build a fleet of such ships. It’s all wishful thinking, vanity projects and a complete disregard for reality.

    Well that’s 2025. See what they get up to next year.

  • The value of your investments…

    Stock market crash seems to have no end. I’ve lost money because of it, but then so has virtually everybody who has money in there somewhere. Except Warren Buffett apparently, who evidently saw the disaster coming.

    Hardest hit it seems are the tech boys. Nobody has any sympathy for them. Not least because of their incredible arrogance, but also because they so desperately wanted a failed businessman as president. Presumably they thought they would be able to control him and have only now found out that the mafia doesn’t work that way.

    In any case, the tech stocks have been hugely overvalued and this crash is providing a correction. If the market loses trust, it will punish the dodgy investments first. It seems they are not the geniuses we all thought they were.

    This still leaves the protection racket that the rest of the world has to deal with. The problem is that the mob don’t seem to have worked out their price, or what constitutes success. So far, retaliation (China), negotiation (EU), and capitulation (many others) hasn’t brought any relief: just more threats.

    What can possibly work? And if a “deal” is struck, what is it worth? Does anybody trust the president? He changes his mind constantly, doesn’t seem to know what he is doing, and agrees with whoever spoke to him last. Beyond that, as the USA destroys itself from within, are they even able to keep an agreement?