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@Giovann35084111 the argument is we are special and this argument has been used before and every time it was proven wrong. we are not the center of the universe, solar system/whatever. also the ingredients for life can be found everywhere (i.e. asteroid samples). something must stop them. its AI

The argument that “the universe is vast, therefore aliens must exist” is not as strong as people think. In fact, the vastness of the universe can be used to argue the opposite. A sufficiently enormous universe may be exactly what is required for one extremely rare event to happen somewhere. That event may be us. If the emergence of intelligent technological life is fantastically improbable, then a universe with billions of galaxies and trillions of planets is not evidence that aliens must be everywhere. It may simply be the size of the lottery required for one winning ticket to exist. We are that winning ticket. People assume that because there are so many planets, life must be common. But that depends entirely on the probability of life emerging, surviving, becoming complex, developing intelligence, creating technology, and lasting long enough to be detectable. If each of those steps is extremely unlikely, then even a vast universe may produce very few civilizations, maybe only one within our observable horizon. And here is the deeper point: if advanced aliens were common, we probably would not be debating whether they exist. Their existence would be obvious. The galaxy is billions of years older than Earth. A civilization only slightly older than ours, on cosmic timescales, could have had millions of years to expand, signal, engineer, or leave detectable traces. Yet we see no clear evidence. So the vastness of the universe does not automatically solve the alien question. It sharpens the mystery. Maybe the universe is vast because the odds are so low. Maybe we are not one example among countless others. Maybe we are the rare exception the universe needed all that space and time to produce.

@MichaelAArouet there is nothing left to defend

This is simply unreal. What happened in Germany? Has the left virus completely eaten their minds? How on earth is it possible to not be willing to defend one's country and family?

@eshanbuilds @CuriosityonX just implant a chip?

the eel reproduction mystery is real but the post overstates it. we know eels reproduce in the sargasso because leptocephali, the transparent larval eels, have been collected there since johannes schmidt's expeditions in the 1920s. the larvae get smaller the closer you sample to the sargasso, which triangulates the spawning location. we also know the adults undergo radical physical changes before migration: their eyes double in size, their gut dissolves, and their skin turns silver. they literally rebuild their bodies for a one-way trip to a place nobody has watched them arrive at. the real mystery is why 100 years of oceanography still can't observe the actual spawning event. the sargasso is 3 million square kilometers of open ocean with no landmarks. finding a specific fish in that volume at the exact moment it spawns is like finding a specific person in europe from a satellite

Scientists have NO idea how eels reproduce. They scooped 7,000 eggs from the Sargasso Sea where eels supposedly mate. Guess how many were eel eggs? Zero. GPS trackers? Eels shake them off. Hormones? Don't work. Predator stomachs? Nothing. No one has ever seen a mature eel there. In 2022 we finally tracked an adult there but nobody has still ever seen them mate. Nobody has ever witnessed eels mating. No mature adults have been caught in the act. No verified eel eggs have been collected from the Sargasso.

@Giovann35084111 AI like fire, is a milestone is developmend. it always ends bad

It is extremely likely we are alone in the Universe. This is because nobody solved yet the strongest version of the Fermi's paradox. The Fermi paradox doesn't say "where are the aliens?" It says: where is the thermodynamics? The popular version of Fermi asks why we haven't heard radio signals. That's the weak version. It lets you wave it away with "maybe they don't broadcast" or "maybe they use lasers." The strong version is much harder to dismiss. Any civilization that uses stellar-scale energy must radiate stellar-scale waste heat. This isn't a choice. It's the second law of thermodynamics. A Dyson swarm around a Sun-like star absorbs ~5,800 K starlight and re-emits it at ~300 K — a specific, unmistakable infrared signature. We have surveyed the sky for this signature. WISE, IRAS, and dedicated searches by Wright, Carrigan, and Project Hephaistos have examined hundreds of thousands of nearby stars and tens of thousands of nearby galaxies. The result is zero confirmed Dyson signatures. Zero engineered galaxies. Zero anomalous infrared excesses requiring a non-natural explanation. Now the age argument. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Rocky planets in habitable zones have existed for about 10 billion years. Earth formed only 4.5 billion years ago, and our technological civilization is roughly 200 years old. If civilizations arise across cosmic time with anything like a flat distribution, the expected age of a randomly sampled extant civilization is on the order of billions of years older than us — not centuries, not millennia, billions. Look at what 200 years did to us. From sailing ships to detecting gravitational waves. From candles to landing rovers on Mars. Two more centuries of even modest growth, applied to a species that already understood physics, and you're engineering at planetary scales. A few thousand years and you're working at stellar scales. A million years — still a rounding error on cosmic time — and the entire galaxy bears your fingerprint. So the strong Fermi argument is this: across 13 billion years, across 10²² rocky planets in the observable universe, the Copernican prior says we should not be temporally special. The expected number of civilizations that have ever reached stellar engineering capacity is enormous. The fact that we see zero infrared signatures of any such engineering, anywhere, ever, is the puzzle. It gets sharper. The "they all destroyed themselves" answer doesn't work, because destruction leaves signatures too. A Dyson swarm outlasts its builders by stellar lifetimes. Stellar engineering leaves permanent metallicity anomalies. Self-replicating probes, once launched by even one civilization in galactic history, fill the galaxy in 10⁶ to 10⁸ years and persist as hardware in every stellar system thereafter. Even civilizations that perished a billion years ago should have left graves we can see. We see no graves. We see no swarms. We see no chemically engineered stars. We see no probes in our own solar system, which has been sitting here as a perfectly accessible target for the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the galaxy. We see a universe whose every observable feature is consistent with purely natural dynamical evolution from initial conditions. This is the part nobody wants to say out loud: the simplest reading of the evidence is that we are the first. Not "rare." Not "one of few." The first. This sounds arrogant, but it isn't — it's just what the data say if you take them at face value. Every other explanation requires loading the hypothesis with auxiliary assumptions: that every civilization without exception converges on non-expansion, that some unspecified universal sociological law makes engineering at stellar scale unattractive, that some hazard reliably kills every civilization before it ever leaves a single trace. These are all possible, but they require the universe to be conspiring in a very specific way to produce the appearance of emptiness. The flat reading is simpler. Somebody had to be first. The Copernican principle says we shouldn't assume we're special, but the Copernican principle is a prior, not a theorem — it gets updated by evidence. And the evidence, after a century of looking, is overwhelmingly that the sky is empty of engineering. That update has to push the posterior somewhere. The somewhere is: we are early. Possibly very early. Possibly first. If this is right, it changes how we should think about what we are. We are not one of countless civilizations whose story has been told a billion times across the universe. We are the opening sentence. Every decision we make about how to develop, how to expand, how to avoid extinguishing ourselves, is being made for the first time anywhere. The light cone is ours. That's not a depressing reading of Fermi. It's the most consequential reading possible. The universe has been waiting 13 billion years for someone to do this, and we are the ones who showed up. The lights are on. The house is empty. The keys are in our hand.

@mansabdarii @CirkinAmerika die sache ist die, sind denn frauen heute glücklich? gibt es überhaupt ein gesellschaftliches idealbild in dem die mehrheit der frauen glücklich wäre? dann wählt man jenes das zumindest funktioniert

@CirkinAmerika Hadi diyelim öyle olsun. Ne yapalım yani kadınları istemedikleri kişiyle bir ömür geçirmeye mi zorlayalım ? Hiç mi empati duygunuz yok arkadaş ? Hiç ananız kız kardeşiniz yok ? Mutlu olmadığı bir evde hayatını mı çürütsün kız kardeşiniz bunu mu istiyorsunuz ?

İngiliz antropolog J.D. Unwin, Sex and Culture (1934) kitabında 80'den fazla toplumu 5.000 yıllık tarih boyunca incelemiştir. Kadınları eş seçiminde serbest bırakıldığında 3 nesil sonra o topluluk yok oluyor. Modern bilim bu adamın 92 sene önce bulduğunu daha yeni onaylıyor.

@who_cares_2021 warum mochte der vater seinen sohn nicht?

🔥 Dieser Prozess in Rostock ist kein normales Gerichtsverfahren mehr, sondern der Spiegel einer kranken Gesellschaft. Der achtjährige Fabian aus Güstrow wurde am 10. Oktober 2025 heimtückisch aus der Wohnung seiner Mutter gelockt, zu einem abgelegenen Tümpel gefahren, mit mindestens sechs Messerstichen, zwei davon direkt ins Herz, abgeschlachtet und dann noch versucht, seine kleine Leiche anzuzünden. Die mutmaßliche Täterin, Gina H., 30, die Ex-Freundin seines Vaters Matthias R. Das Motiv nach der Anklage war Eifersucht, Rache, und der verzweifelte Versuch, die Beziehung zum Vater um jeden Preis zurückzuerobern. rtl.de Während die Mutter Dorina L. im Zeugenstand zusammenbricht, weint, schreit vor Schmerz und Ohnmacht, sitzt Fabians eigener Vater Matthias R., 35 entspannt zurückgelehnt, Beine übereinandergeschlagen, lächelt der Angeklagten zu, schwärmt vor Gericht von ihrer „Liebevoll-keit, Empathie, ihrem starken Charakter“ und macht Sex-Scherze über Bettgeschichten mit genau der Frau, die seinen Sohn ermordet haben soll. „Am Ende sind wir in einem Bett gelandet und hatten Spaß.“ Kaum eine Träne oder echte Trauer, stattdessen Besuche bei ihr im Gefängnis, Pflege ihrer Pferde, ein Lächeln, als wären sie ein frisch verliebtes Paar. rtl.de Dieser kleine Junge mit dem scheuen Lächeln, im blauen Hemd, angeschnallt im Auto, der das Leben noch vor sich hatte, das ist Fabian, das Kind, das sein Vater im Gerichtssaal ein zweites Mal sterben ließ, mit jeder geschmacklosen Pointe, jedem Lächeln in Richtung der mutmaßlichen Mörderin, jeder Verharmlosung und jedem Rückzieher von früheren Aussagen. Das ist ein Monster, kein tragischer Vater, kein verwirrter Mann in Schockstarre, nur ein widerliche Monster, das die elementarste menschliche Regung den Schmerz um das eigene getötete Kind, nicht einmal mehr simulieren kann oder will. Ein Monster, der die Frau, die seinen Sohn abgeschlachtet hat, nicht als Feindin, sondern als vertraute Geliebte behandelt. Das ist der Abgrund, in den eine Gesellschaft stürzt, wenn sie jahrelang von Politik und Mainstream darauf trainiert wird, jede Form von Empathie, Anstand und gesundem Menschenverstand als „altmodisch“, „toxisch“ oder „rechts“ zu verachten. Schaut euch diesen Prozess an, und die Zuschauer, die Medien, die Richter, die das alles abwickeln. Ein Vater macht Witze über Sex mit der Kindsmörderin, und die Gesellschaft zuckt nicht einmal mehr zusammen, weil die längst abgestumpft sind, weil Politik und Mainstream uns seit Jahren einimpfen, alles wäre relativ, Moral ist konstruiert, Gefühle sind privat, und wer trotzdem noch schreit vor Entsetzen, der ist der eigentliche Störer der „Zivilisiertheit“. Man erzieht uns gerade zu einer ganzen Generation von Zuschauern, Kommentatoren und selbsternannten Richtern, die bei monströser Ungerechtigkeit nicht mehr aufbegehren, sondern relativieren. Wir gewöhnen uns daran, dass ein Vater seinen ermordeten Sohn verrät, und nennen das „komplexe Beziehungsdynamik“. Wir gewöhnen uns daran, dass ein Kind wie Fabian zum Kollateralschaden in einem Beziehungsdrama wird, und nennen das „Einzelfall“. Wacht verdammt nochmal auf. Das hier ist nicht mehr nur der Fall Fabian, sondern der Beweis, dass unsere Gesellschaft dabei ist, den letzten Rest gesunden Menschenverstands zu verlieren. Wenn ein Vater im Gerichtssaal vor den Augen der Welt die Mörderin seines Kindes anlächelt und Witze reißt, und die Reaktion der Öffentlichkeit nur ein müdes „krass“ oder „verstörend“ ist, dann haben wir die Grenze zur Barbarei längst überschritten. Fabian verdient keine „nuancierte Berichterstattung“, sondern Wut, und Väter und Mütter, die auf die Straße gehen und brüllen: Das darf nicht normal werden! Er verdient eine Gesellschaft, die endlich wieder sagt: Es gibt Gut und Böse, richtig und falsch, aber ein Vater, der seinen toten Sohn so verrät, ist ein Monster, Punkt. 1/2

@theinfradev @Schuldensuehner subsidues? ideology?

@FunkyUserNamel @Schuldensuehner If it does't make sense why are they overproducing? Think about it?

Good Morning from Germany, where electricity prices are now regularly falling below zero around midday. On May 1, they even dropped to the floor at -49.999 cents per kilowatt hour. The reason is simple: we are generating more solar power than we can use or store. As a result, Germany has to cover the gap between these negative market prices and the guaranteed feed-in tariffs paid to producers—an expensive outcome. These prices are a clear indication of the utterly disastrous energy transition.

@theinfradev @Schuldensuehner my point is that contrary to germany, pv makes sense in australia

@FunkyUserNamel @Schuldensuehner 1. If they are making so much solar power that it needs to be time shifted then that question isn't very relevant is it? All that matters is what the battery cost is VS grid electricity price is. So the subsidy needs to make it worthwhile to buy a battery.

@theinfradev @Schuldensuehner how is winter in australia?

@Schuldensuehner Australia just did a battery rebate scheme for home owners. Massive uptake (about 1/3 of the cost). Now spot prices are down about 20-30% in peak hours. Cost a few billion. Not impossible.

@ExploreCosmos_ i dont get why dark matter is not just labeled as corrections that accumulate over long distanced and the missing mass is simple the scalaron mass of the correction

A new study has pushed one of the oldest ideas in physics to its most extreme test: whether gravity still behaves the way Newton described when you scale it up to the largest structures in the universe. By analyzing the motion of galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years, researchers used data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to measure how strongly these enormous structures pull on each other. The key question behind the work is a long-standing cosmological problem: galaxies and clusters appear to move too fast to be explained by the visible matter they contain, which leaves two possibilities, either gravity changes on large scales or there is additional unseen mass. The results show that gravity weakens with distance exactly as predicted by the inverse-square law formulated by Newton and later embedded in Einstein’s general relativity. Even across these immense distances, the observations match the standard gravitational framework with high precision. This has important consequences. If gravity behaves exactly as expected, then the mismatch between observed motions and visible matter cannot be solved by modifying gravity itself. Instead, the findings reinforce the idea that a substantial amount of invisible matter, known as dark matter, must be present to provide the extra gravitational pull. What makes this result particularly significant is the scale of the test. Newton originally formulated his law based on observations within the Solar System, yet it now appears to remain valid across distances and masses that were completely beyond anything imaginable in the 17th century. The study also places pressure on alternative theories such as MOND, which attempt to explain cosmic dynamics by altering gravity rather than introducing dark matter. At the same time, the work does not solve the dark matter problem itself. It strengthens the case that dark matter exists, but its nature remains unknown. Future observations, especially those involving the cosmic microwave background and large-scale galaxy surveys, are expected to refine these tests further and possibly narrow down what this missing component of the universe actually is. 👉 share.google/eEsHzEz3kssFdc…

@LaPetiteADA i am afraid to say but this also applies for beer and wine

⚠️ DON'T BUY IT! You don’t need the stuff sitting in that cart. That “Checkout” button gives you a few seconds of dopamine. Investing that money can give you years of freedom. More time with family and friends will always be worth more than anything they convinced you needed.

@BAMFBasar kamen die crypto bros schon hier vorbei? spar in btc

>deutscher Michel >40h/Woche >vom Gehalt 45 % Steuern >mit Rest einkaufen >Sekt? Schaumweinsteuer >Bier? Biersteuer >Kaffee? Kaffeesteuer >Kippen? Tabaksteuer >zahle 19 % MwSt auf bereits versteuertes Geld >40 Jahre lang abgedrückt wie Findom Zahlsklave >kaufst ne Wohnung >Grunderwerbsteuer bis 6,5 % obendrauf >jedes Jahr Grundsteuer, weil du atmest >Auto? Kfz-Steuer >tanken? Mineralölsteuer >Strom? Stromsteuer >Heizen mit Gas oder Öl? Energiesteuer >sparen? Abgeltungsteuer >mit 67 endlich Rente >Einkommensteuer auf die Rente >Kinder sollen später erben >Geld, was schon zigmal versteuert wurde >Erbschaftssteuer fällig >Erben müssen Zeug verkaufen für Erbschaftssteuer >„Fickt euch, ich verlasse Deutschland“ >Finanzamt will Wegzugssteuer auf fiktive Gewinne, die du nie gemacht hast >mfw der Staat dich melkt, bis du tot bist >mfw im Grab noch eine letzte Rechnung mit MwSt.

@DividendMil tell me you never used a hammer without telling me

I’m 42 years old and I am yet to ever use the Pythagorean theory in a real life setting… Another reason why financial education should be taught in schools instead of trigonometry

@BentFreiwald keine geschwister, keine echten rollenbilder, erziehung übernahm tiktok

Ich brauche mal eure Schwarmintelligenz. Was denkt ihr: Was werden Kinder von Millenials ihren Eltern in 20 Jahren vorwerfen, wo sie in der Erziehung versagt haben werden?

@SamaHoole can i become a shepard in swiss somehow?

In the Swiss Alps, they grazed sheep on the high pastures for a thousand years. Then, in parts of the 20th century, they stopped. The scrub returned. Dense, woody, shallow-rooted. And the avalanche risk increased, because the rooted, grazed alpine grass had been holding the snowpack in a way the scrub did not. The sheep had been doing avalanche management. Without being asked. Without a budget. Without a conference. This is the thing about ruminants that the model misses entirely. They are not an input into the landscape. They are not a disturbance to be minimised. They are a functional ecological component that has been doing a job, invisibly, for so long that we stopped being able to see it. Remove the sheep and you eventually discover what the sheep was doing, usually in a way that is expensive and sometimes in a way that is fatal. The farmer who grazes the high pasture is not exploiting the landscape. The farmer is maintaining it. The sheep is infrastructure. The sheep is just also a lamb chop.

@wavetossed @creepydotorg i like this one more

@creepydotorg Or, the embalmers were taking the female corpses to secret chambers where they had sex with them until the body was too decomposed to continue using it thus. What makes you think that modern undertakers are not doing the exact same thing?

@moose_crab @TeddyK59558411 @ArthurB you draw 2 circles instead of one and get an area intersection of 4 circles

@TeddyK59558411 @ArthurB what if the distance is only given to the nearest mile though?

For the curious if you receive the distance with relative precision ε, the Lyapunov exponent of the 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 if each week is an iteration is ⅘ log(ε). It means that if you get the distance with 3 significant digits you reduce the area by about 99.78% each week and you get 95.3% closer.

@HazelAppleyard yes with just a tiny math knowledge

Absolutely not????

@CardanoRami is any dapp actually being created by that money?

Cardano is on pace to generate 490,560 $ADA to the treasury this year through fees from current tx counts. Yet our yearly spend budget from that same treasury is 350,000,000 $ADA. That means we are currently on track to spend 713x more than the revenue we generate. Increasing tx counts and decreasing yearly spend is extremely important for the long-term sustainability of our ecosystem.

@ExploreCosmos_ evolving sounds more dramatic than what the data says. i could just slightly fluctuate for all kind of reasons

For years, we’ve described dark energy with a single, simple idea: a constant. In the standard model of cosmology (ΛCDM), dark energy is represented by Λ, the cosmological constant, a fixed energy density that fills space and drives the accelerated expansion of the universe. It’s elegant. And for a long time, it worked. But recent observations are starting to make things less comfortable. Large galaxy surveys like DESI are mapping how structures in the universe have grown over time, giving us a way to track how expansion has evolved. And with the first-year DESI data release, something subtle appeared: the fit to ΛCDM is not perfect. Not dramatically wrong. But not entirely clean either. Some analyses suggest that the effect of dark energy might not be exactly constant. Instead of behaving like a fixed Λ, it could evolve slightly with time. In cosmology, this is often described using the parameter w, the equation-of-state of dark energy. In the simplest case: w = -1 → perfectly constant (Λ). But if: w ≠ -1 → dark energy changes over time. Right now, measurements are hovering very close to w = -1… but not always exactly on it. That’s the tension. It’s not strong enough to claim a discovery. But it’s persistent enough that people are paying attention. And here’s the key point: we don’t yet know if this is real. DESI’s first-year data is just the beginning. As more years of data come in, the uncertainties will shrink. If the trend holds, it becomes much harder to dismiss. If it fades, it was likely just noise or systematics. That’s exactly where we are. If this deviation turns out to be real, the implications are big. It would mean dark energy is not just a property of empty space, but something dynamic, possibly a field evolving over cosmic time (what we call quintessence). And that would push us beyond ΛCDM. On the other hand, there’s a more conservative explanation: systematics. Small biases in measurements, calibration issues, or assumptions in the models we use to interpret the data. Cosmology is incredibly precise now, and tiny effects can look like new physics if we’re not careful. So we’re in that familiar place in science: Either we’re seeing the first hint of something new… or we’re learning how careful we still need to be. And that’s what makes this interesting. Because ΛCDM has been extraordinarily successful. It explains the cosmic microwave background, large-scale structure, galaxy formation… almost everything we observe. But it’s also built on components we don’t fully understand: dark matter and dark energy. So when cracks, even small ones, start to appear, they matter. A shift in w away from -1 might seem like a tiny numerical detail. It isn’t. It’s a question about whether the acceleration of the universe is driven by something static… or something evolving. And right now, we don’t quite know which one it is.