I’m surprised it’s that high, actually. It’s probably because I have a lot of friends, and I check several times a day. I almost never manually update my status, and the answers to most of the other questions were “no.”
By the way, vanilla friend requests from people I don’t know are generally ignored. If you want to be my Facebook friend, tell me who you are and why.
All it takes is to be a Type VI civilization.
These are pretty funny. It’s actually pretty amusing that there’s a whole site devoted to this.
[Via Geek Press]
…belong to corporations?
Jonah Goldberg points out the absurdity of it. Here’s a similar piece I wrote a couple years ago on the thirty-ninth anniversary of the first Apollo landing, on why solving the energy problem is completely unlike going to the moon.
…is holding an end-of-the-year fund raiser. It’s a worthy cause. Unless, you know, you hate humanity.
A new course has been added to the LaunchSpace catalog. Doesn’t look like it’s worth attending, though — the course instructor probably doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
…with stem cells.
I don’t think that people really appreciate the potential for life extension and rejuvenation from these technologies, or its societal implications (including entitlements, and lifetime tenure).
[Update a couple minutes later]
Aubrey de Grey versus David Brin on the subject.
[Monday afternoon update]
Life expectancy of 200 years and beyond?
[Bumped]
Thoughts from Robin Hanson. Ignoring space settlement, one of the reasons I want us to become spacefaring is to make it more affordable to answer questions like this. With low-cost access both to orbit and beyond, we could do some pretty spectacular exploration of, say, Europa.