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Worse, as these are key developmental years for children, who themselves are not yet equipped to responsible decisions for themselves.

There are certainly varying degrees of baseline consciousness.

I think you can pull many people out of their patterns into consciousness for a short time through the right engagement, but they'll just slip back into semi-oblivion when they go back to their daily life, social network, confirmation bias affirming news sources, etc...

Could this be the kind of external force required to help reduce unnecessary paper waste (junkmail, statements, etc.)?

China is the largest paper consumer in the world (100mm metric tons), followed not far behind by the US(70mm metric tons). Japan is 3rd at 25mm.. That seems to suggest we have a lot of room for reduction.

That will only work until June.

The promised age of information has quickly devolved into the age of misinformation.

Holocaust denial? Vaccine misinformation? Anti-mask propaganda? These things can and do cause real harm to society. To Facebook's credit, they have since banned these, but only after the ideas had spread significantly.

It it strange phrasing to be sure. I interpreted it as sooner from birth (at younger ages).

What could any explorers in the history of mankind do when they got to an unpopulated island or continent? Spread, inhabit, and help ensure the survival of their species.

Whether or not you agree, some people like the idea of humanity surviving as a multi-solar system species.

I'm not sure Alpha Centauri has any inhabitable planets, at least for our biology as it stands today, but what we learn along the way might render that moot.

Except that is all the evidence we have to go on for this conversation. Verified fake tweets have been sent from prominent democrats, and not from any prominent republicans.

Of course you're right that we don't know is if this is political, or just a distraction from whatever their real goal is / was. But the optics are clear here, and there is no reason to muddy the waters.

Just as long as the universe doesn't show us to the aliens, I'm on board.

I stand corrected. That's what I get for trying to make an offhand joke based on some some bad info. The rest of the time comment stands though.

If by the bright side you mean you would only make it there it there as pure energy. Mass is converted to energy as it approaches C (Light Speed). Though getting mass to actual light speed would require infinite energy, so that point is moot.

Let's say you get to 96% C. You would experience 28% of the journey. Taking into account the the time to speed up and slow down from C, you're looking at over 290k years from the perspective of the passengers.

At 99% C, you would experience over 14% of the journey (About 142k years).

I just replaced all the lighting in my House a few months back with Hyperikon LED lighting, and really felt like it was an improvement over the previous CFL lighting.

This comment alleviated some of creeping anxiety from the above posts that I maybe hadn't done enough research (I hadn't, I just got lucky).

Since this would be over the poles, agriculture would not be impacted. There would likely be a substantial impact to ecology of these regions, depending on size of the shade of course.

This really has been a common theme through mythology though. One needs to look no further than Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son on god's word. I'm not saying this is good, quite the opposite, but it seems to reflect a dark theme in humanity. The ones most likely to hurt you are your loved ones. Of course our media is going to reflect that.

At the end of the day some parental digression is required here, and if you do take your child to see this film, it may open up a good opportunity for an earnest conversation about healthy and unhealthy relationships.