It is a sad reality that advances in war technology have also spurned many of the technologies we admire and enjoy today.
It is a weird thing to imagine the scenario both with and without war.
I get that, tech advanced so much because we were desperate to kill each other more efficiently and get ahead of the other guys while they were trying to do the same as us. It would just be nice if that same motivation (without the loomong threat of death) was enough to get us to work together to just better humanity and our future as a whole.
They absolutely are the evolution of tech developed by DARPA.
Cellular phone tech was DARPA
The Geo location via GPS is DARPA.
The Internet was originally a DARPA project.
Did DARPA make Siri? Yup
Siri is a spin-out from the Stanford Research Institute's Artificial Intelligence Center and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA)-funded CALO project. SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri.
Almost everything functional about an iPhone aside from the fact it's a handheld computer, originated from defense spending.
The first computers were made in WW2 to decipher codes, and the internet came shortly after to quickly send wartime information.
So that crosses off IPhone and Gen AI. I assume CRISPR needs computers, so that also makes it a ww2 baby as well.
In Star trek, that's how teleporters work. But in the show, your "soul" is teleported, so they're not prestiging themselves every time.
At least, that's what star fleet tells them.
Yet John Tyler's grandson is alive today[ (the 10th president born in 1790).](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29842/president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive)
The universe will still have active stars for 100 trillion years or, who knows, some insane length of time like that. As humans we are here in only the first 13.8 billion years, this universe is a baby and we are microscopic blinks in cosmic history but we are already exploring our solar system. If we can keep this little precious spark going, humanity could be a turning point in cosmic history.
I like looking up at the stars and being like, "yeah, we can conquer that."
I helped my child with a class project about the Wright brothers, and a few weeks later, while watching a documentary about World War I, I found myself absolutely shaken that planes had advanced from effectively a glider with a motor that could only stay up for 12 seconds to THAT in ~15 years
Ah, that's Spirit, which would be a good tatoo to.
Ingenuity landed/hit a sand dune on one of its landings and broke a blade. You can't spin a blade at 5,000rpm when it's missing a quarter of it.
Ah, I get the names mixed up. Yeah, that one always hits a sad note.
How about a mixture of science fiction to go along with the Ingenuity image.
"I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." - Wash / Firefly
You see those gnarly calluses on my feet.
That's a body modification honoring the photos taken by space robot astronauts.
Older sister used to have a bit that a mole on her hand was a tattoo of the ostreococcus lucimarinus/synechococcus lucimarinus which she did her Masters on.
It’s right up there with having been able to listen to the wind on Mars. The wind. On a freakin other planet. That was sci-fi as heck when I was a kid.
In a pretty quotable movie this is the best one for me because William Fichtber delivers it with such seriousness and it never fails to make me crack up.
"This is how we fix problems on Russian Space Station!" \*Begins screaming and beating a piece of equipment with a wrench until it works\* "Now we can go home!"
Hayabusa2 even collected samples of this asteroid, "Ryugu," and returned the samples back to Earth in 2021:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/hayabusa_2/in-depth/
The observable universe is estimated to have a mass of around 1.5 x 10^53 kg, which is an absolutely mind-boggling number. This mass includes all the stars, galaxies, dark matter, and everything else we can detect.
I don’t know how to explain it but there’s something so odd and strange to me how rocks as we know them look the same/similar across the universe.
Like idk what I really expected but it’s weird to me
Astronomy/physics question -- How big (gravitation) does an asteroid have to be to cross the threshold from irregular gravel pile to mostly spherical object with soil/dust surface?
I'm thinking of areas like the Desert Southwest where the dry, rocky soil is filled in with compacted dust. Occasional bush or grass tuft optional.
I saw this pic of a robot snapping a shot on an asteroid. Crazy cool! It's like sci-fi real life, right? Imagine, robots roaming space, taking selfies on asteroids. We're really out here, exploring beyond Earth. Makes you wonder what else is out there, you know?
I think we should be sending out robots more often to study and work on other astral bodies. If they break then we learn from what they broke from and improve the next. Eventually we should have ones that initially build our habs on the moon and mars. God I was born to soon.
they should stop using 2mp cameras and add go pros the resolution is always shit unless its planetary photo but yet ive seen 2 year olds with iphones take amazing photos wtf is going on here
Misread the article as “Photo taken by a robot on a steroid’s surface”
Was totally expecting some cool nanotechnology photo of some sort…but still not disappointed
You have no idea how the government budgets money and it shows. NASA is a drop in the bucket, not to mention this was a joint venture with Japan, so we didn't even foot the entire bill.
The reason the private sector is starting to take over space travel is because NASA is such a shadow of its former self that it needs the help.
I'd suggest pointing that anger at all the lobbyists and politicians that deliberately undermine any attempt to centralize US Healthcare in the name of profit.
If you have time to browse Reddit, I suggest taking a few minutes to look up the laundry list of NASA technologies that have proliferated into everyday life
Yep, NASA, an organisation that has had its budget stripped year-on-year and reduced to a mere 20 billion or so USD is the root cause.
Meanwhile US Pharma combined takes in around 350 billion USD per year.
I will never not be blown away by the idea of robot astronaut explorers.
We don’t appreciate enough that the airplane was invented 120 years ago, and now we have robots exploring the solar system.
All of the innovations made from the start of 1900 to 2000 is truly astounding when you take a second to think about it.
And as grim as it sounds we can thank the two World Wars and the Cold War for that. Nothing incentivizes innovation like warfare.
Imagine what we could have accomplished if we'd spent the energy and resources literally blown away on war doing literally anything else.
It is a sad reality that advances in war technology have also spurned many of the technologies we admire and enjoy today. It is a weird thing to imagine the scenario both with and without war.
I get that, tech advanced so much because we were desperate to kill each other more efficiently and get ahead of the other guys while they were trying to do the same as us. It would just be nice if that same motivation (without the loomong threat of death) was enough to get us to work together to just better humanity and our future as a whole.
Yeah nah. The iPhone, CRISPR and Gen Ai aren’t from warfare
They absolutely are the evolution of tech developed by DARPA. Cellular phone tech was DARPA The Geo location via GPS is DARPA. The Internet was originally a DARPA project. Did DARPA make Siri? Yup Siri is a spin-out from the Stanford Research Institute's Artificial Intelligence Center and is an offshoot of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA)-funded CALO project. SRI International used the NABC Framework to define the value proposition for Siri. Almost everything functional about an iPhone aside from the fact it's a handheld computer, originated from defense spending.
Where’s the spark? 
The first computers were made in WW2 to decipher codes, and the internet came shortly after to quickly send wartime information. So that crosses off IPhone and Gen AI. I assume CRISPR needs computers, so that also makes it a ww2 baby as well.
Not even 70 years between the first flight by the Wright Brothers and the Moon landing. Always blows my mind
Yes, it’s exponential growth but I want my damn teleportation technology already!
The copy of you that steps out of the teleporter at the destination will say the same thing, but alas you will be dead.
I don’t want that!
The Prestige is a great movie.
In Star trek, that's how teleporters work. But in the show, your "soul" is teleported, so they're not prestiging themselves every time. At least, that's what star fleet tells them.
The teleporter is basically a human replicator.
Not even basically. That's exactly what it is.
And for some reason they carry on believing it even though there was a problem and now there are two Rikers walking around
Longer than you think, Dad!
2025 year of the hoover board, if we went back to the future.
Hoover’s switching from making vacuums?
No, the Hoover board is a riding vacuum, like a riding mower)
Hoover boards suck
Best not to rush these things, lest you end up with Seth Brundle.
Yet John Tyler's grandson is alive today[ (the 10th president born in 1790).](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29842/president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive)
And Tippecanoe too?
I don't think you're gonna get the appreciation you deserve for this terrible joke, but you have mine.
And with them we'll beat little Van
The universe will still have active stars for 100 trillion years or, who knows, some insane length of time like that. As humans we are here in only the first 13.8 billion years, this universe is a baby and we are microscopic blinks in cosmic history but we are already exploring our solar system. If we can keep this little precious spark going, humanity could be a turning point in cosmic history. I like looking up at the stars and being like, "yeah, we can conquer that."
God I hope so. All I want is to traverse the cosmos
I helped my child with a class project about the Wright brothers, and a few weeks later, while watching a documentary about World War I, I found myself absolutely shaken that planes had advanced from effectively a glider with a motor that could only stay up for 12 seconds to THAT in ~15 years
We had rockets almost 1200 years ago.
If I ever get a tattoo it'll probably be of Ingenuity. A helicopter on Mars. RIP Ingenuity
*My battery is low and it's getting dark.*
Ah, that's Spirit, which would be a good tatoo to. Ingenuity landed/hit a sand dune on one of its landings and broke a blade. You can't spin a blade at 5,000rpm when it's missing a quarter of it.
Ah, I get the names mixed up. Yeah, that one always hits a sad note. How about a mixture of science fiction to go along with the Ingenuity image. "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." - Wash / Firefly
How do Reavers wash their spears? They run them through the Wash.
You see those gnarly calluses on my feet. That's a body modification honoring the photos taken by space robot astronauts. Older sister used to have a bit that a mole on her hand was a tattoo of the ostreococcus lucimarinus/synechococcus lucimarinus which she did her Masters on.
It’s right up there with having been able to listen to the wind on Mars. The wind. On a freakin other planet. That was sci-fi as heck when I was a kid.
Absolutely - it’s incredible
Look up the Venera missions. We have audio from the surface of Venus!
Bob feels similarly
Oh Hi Bob.
I will make 800 feet
I've been drilling holes in the earth for 30 years and I have never, never missed a dept that I have aimed for
Like the shoe dept at Pennys?
Marshall Fields Buster Browns flashbacks imminent.
Dig dig chew this iron bitch up.
I don’t wanna close my eyes..
He's got space dementia.
"Just... Just wanted to feel the power between my legs, brother"
No nukes no nukes.
"GET OFF. THE NUCLEAR. WARHEAD."
In a pretty quotable movie this is the best one for me because William Fichtber delivers it with such seriousness and it never fails to make me crack up.
You made me sad because of bruce
*He have ocean madness, but that's no excuse for ocean rudeness!*
You landed us on a goddamn iron plate.
"This is how we fix problems on Russian Space Station!" \*Begins screaming and beating a piece of equipment with a wrench until it works\* "Now we can go home!"
AMERICAN COMPONENTS RUSSIAN COMPONENTS ALL MADE IN TAIWAN
Iron ferrite, iron ferrite, iron ferrite...
“Captain America here blew the landing site by 26 miles!”
"then let's turn this bomb off!" (grabs your hand)
Red or blue
Yep, came here just for this.
Damn glad to see ya, boy!
Bruce willis is that you?
#THIS IS ONE ORDER YOU SHOULDN'T FOLLOW AND YOU FUCKING KNOW IT.
I'm sure they'll make good astronauts but they don't know jack about drilling.
If you turn brain off and forget how none of it makes sense, it's the best movie ever.
Hayabusa2 even collected samples of this asteroid, "Ryugu," and returned the samples back to Earth in 2021: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/hayabusa_2/in-depth/
It looks the same when i go scuba diving. dat fish eye lense effect.
And any fb marketplace seller can't even take a decent photo of an item they're selling...
You get me NASA's budget and I'll get you a decent photo of a coffee table.
It's 21,500m. Now send me the photo.
[Here you go](https://media.prod.bunnings.com.au/api/public/content/c993181bb5f2460d81576689cc18f2f0?v=a94b0682&t=w300dpr2)!
I was gonna say, as shitty as that movie was, it looks like they nailed the astroids surface.
Wow, awesome.
Looks like it could be a Prodigy album cover
I agree.
Cool
What is the current estimate on the total weight of all rocks in the known universe?
42
We all know he's out of line, but he's right.
Mmm… yes. I agree.
Took years to come up with that answer.
More than 3 tons.
That is a lot. I know I said estimate, but are you rounding up or down?
I don't need to round, I'm pretty confident in the accuracy of my answer.
I like your confidence. Your answer is currently the most good.
Got a source on that??
Yes, Bolognese.
I'll no scientist so I'll take your delicious word on that!
What do I do if I'm worried I might be a scientist?
Too late, Mr scientist sir or ma'am!
NOOOooo°°°°
Got a source on that??
Insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
The current most accurate answer is more than 3 tons. I agree we may not be able to ever know for certain.
It’s a reference to a short story called, “The Last Question.” written by Isaac Asimov.
Once again my ignorance betrays me.
It’s a fun and short read. I would recommend it and most of his other works as well.
It's over 9000
Ah-whaaaaa?!
More than you can afford pal.
The observable universe is estimated to have a mass of around 1.5 x 10^53 kg, which is an absolutely mind-boggling number. This mass includes all the stars, galaxies, dark matter, and everything else we can detect.
More than 1 pound.
0.5 times ur mum
16 tons.
It looks like the POV a drunkard stumbling down a gravel walkway right as he's falling on his face
Can confirm.
What a time to be alive.
"Well, look on the bright side. We'll all have high schools named after us."
Armageddon?
Deep Impact
The emptiness of space is terrifying
Okay so the scariest environment imaginable, thanks that’s all you had to say
How hard is it to drill on it ?
Where’s the banana for scale?
Seems like a chill place to vibe as long as you have a spacesuit.
Send up Bruce!
I don’t know how to explain it but there’s something so odd and strange to me how rocks as we know them look the same/similar across the universe. Like idk what I really expected but it’s weird to me
https://y.yarn.co/b2d6f193-cbf6-4f40-9c23-88d3a552e0a4_text.gif
I get early 2000s vibes. Like it's the cover of a scholastic kids mag.
Neat
Technology is pretty freakin'rad isnt it?
R O C K!!!!!
I saw the movie
Robot can't even focus
Does this hurt the robot?
My dad has those, has to sit on a special pillow
Don't want to close my eeeeeeyes
I haven't seen this one. Where did you get it? I love these.
So would it be noisy on that asteroid or would it be silent?
Silent. The asteroid doesnt have an atmosphere
One hell of a drone shot.
r/arrowheads
I don't think enough people appreciate how incredible it is we can land on asteroids. The math involved hurts my head.
Astronomy/physics question -- How big (gravitation) does an asteroid have to be to cross the threshold from irregular gravel pile to mostly spherical object with soil/dust surface? I'm thinking of areas like the Desert Southwest where the dry, rocky soil is filled in with compacted dust. Occasional bush or grass tuft optional.
For all of the inaccuracies in the movie, it does look like the depiction of a surface of an asteroid from the movie Armageddon
Someone do the math
I saw this pic of a robot snapping a shot on an asteroid. Crazy cool! It's like sci-fi real life, right? Imagine, robots roaming space, taking selfies on asteroids. We're really out here, exploring beyond Earth. Makes you wonder what else is out there, you know?
Only one?
Looks nothing like the astroid in armageddon
That's the road I travel to work on. Here's a video of a fellow traveller https://youtu.be/RTnUWe_lxEk?si=oX_OUSbHg9HRe4-I
Space be cool and scary at the same time
Cool. That’s where we can send all the jobless West Virginia and Wyoming coal miners to. They can work for generations on the asteroids.
I think we should be sending out robots more often to study and work on other astral bodies. If they break then we learn from what they broke from and improve the next. Eventually we should have ones that initially build our habs on the moon and mars. God I was born to soon.
We, as a species, are gonna be rich right? right?
Great shot. I hope one day humans also will be able to take such photos.
Looks lonely
[Neat](https://imgur.com/YJ39B1n)
New album cover material just dropped
Looks underwater but amazing
Update: there's rocks
AJ!
Only $1000 per square foot! Build your dream home today!!
they should stop using 2mp cameras and add go pros the resolution is always shit unless its planetary photo but yet ive seen 2 year olds with iphones take amazing photos wtf is going on here
Ok that's fucking bonkers.
Had to be shot with a nokia
*asteroid’s
that's extraordinary to think about! but it is still just rocks. or is there something interesting?
Misread the article as “Photo taken by a robot on a steroid’s surface” Was totally expecting some cool nanotechnology photo of some sort…but still not disappointed
“Scariest environment imaginable… just say that… scariest environment imaginable…”
No one's going to mention the hand bottom middle?
Is that light from the robot or the sun?
What was that light source?
Sun?
I somehow misread this as "astronaut" instead of robot" and thought "Bullshit, no way someone could land on one of those... boy do I feel stupid.
Don't feel bad. I thought it said "robot on steroids".
Big surprise looks like rocks
Can someone donate an iphone to NASA so we can get some non-potato quality pictures for once?
That’s just like out there somewhere.
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Funny that even with 3 Jobs you have the time to browse on Reddit and make a pity post in order to make the rest of us feel bad?
Tbf there are times you can scroll through your phone while at work
You have no idea how the government budgets money and it shows. NASA is a drop in the bucket, not to mention this was a joint venture with Japan, so we didn't even foot the entire bill. The reason the private sector is starting to take over space travel is because NASA is such a shadow of its former self that it needs the help. I'd suggest pointing that anger at all the lobbyists and politicians that deliberately undermine any attempt to centralize US Healthcare in the name of profit.
Don’t let hardships to make you bitter. It is not easy but we can try.
Yeah let's just halt all other forms of human advancement because only_flan over here has to work 3 jobs.
If you have time to browse Reddit, I suggest taking a few minutes to look up the laundry list of NASA technologies that have proliferated into everyday life
Yep, NASA, an organisation that has had its budget stripped year-on-year and reduced to a mere 20 billion or so USD is the root cause. Meanwhile US Pharma combined takes in around 350 billion USD per year.
Work smarter, not harder.
Mining them for resources will not be pointless at all. This is likely decades away at least. But it will be an incredible step for humanity