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Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

They've been talking about negotiating all the time, but what could the alien possibly want from humanity?

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Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Paracelsus posted:

Until people start developing laser weapons that can handle massive throughput without burning out the components, that all depends on whether you can destabilize a Wam to produce a sudden release of energy, which may not be possible. I don't think you can destroy the world with just a massive number of devices plugged into an infinite power strip.


If you just want to destroy everything instead of on specific target, things are a lot easier:


Scale this up (it's not exactly high tech), put it into the ocean and wait.

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Recap episode this week

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

Someone in the production chain screwed up. Watch Shirobako for details.

Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

So they have a way to parallelize thoughts, and the best use case they can come up with is "increasing productivity by not having to sleep"?


They should have given it to the google guy, not reporters.

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Tamba
Apr 5, 2010

https://twitter.com/ryo_timo/status/878208330488979456

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