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  • USA Citizens have no process to throw him out. Only Congress or the senate can.

    As for raising up and revolting. That will be as effective as errm. Let’s say “using a tiny navy to support oil tankers against the worlds biggest navy” IE it just looks like a protest. Note his move to send red state national guards into blue state cities. Dispite their violence crime being lower then red states. And his call to call any protesters terrorist’s.

    It could be argued Civil war is just a matter of a change of words.



  • Solid advice above. 3d printing on these things is a huge issue initially. Set up etc is very fiddly. And this is with a new set up with everything documented by the manufacturer. As soon as you start playing with the mess others have made dealing with the same issues. More so after having dismantled and moved a set up to sell.

    Really not a fun task for a first timer.

    Once you have done it once and understand the issues involved and just how minor errors can mess with plate adhesive and other issues. It would be a fine purchase. But not that cheap. 1/2 price of a newer model seems normal.

    But it is also worth remembering. While these printers are very upgradeable. The tech is changing fast. And this is the price range where an older printer is likely to have changed the most compared to newer models.


  • Sorry to grin at you. But in OS theory Linux is known as a monolith kernal. So you choice of words would have given my lecturers a freakout.

    But while your terminology is a bit crossed. The ideal you are explaining is fine.

    Better Technical way to put it. Linux is just the kernal. Much of the interface you see is actually programs or apps running above that kernal. A d can be changed amd selected.

    Windows is also started multipart. But has become less so over time. And it’s single distributer makes it way less obvious. By preventing any competition within it’s internal structure. The original monolithic kernal of Windows was the MS Dos command.com program. But I no lying those of us from the 80s and early 90 remember using it.


  • The difference is minor but significant.

    Venus shows a potential with a need for answers as to how life would be possible. iE the hint is their but at levels of a compound that is more possible as non life then life. In an environment we have no idea how life could form. We do not even have much in the way of an hypothesis that allows life to have formed.

    where’s as Enceladus is very the opposite. Compounds exist that we have never seen produced another way but life. Theories exist on how it might be possible. But the questions are from the opposite direction. iE Venus we do not understand how life can exist and need more answers. Enceladus we do not know how life can not exist. But have hypothesis with 0 evidence yet on how the effect can happen without life.


  • OK I see. Yes some questions were asked. But it was more about a possibility then any evidence of life existing.

    Historically life on Venus has been considered impossible due to very high pressure and heat on the surface. But low (very low)amount of oxygen have been seen by some German scientists in the upper atmosphere. Due to this Some scientists have proposed that some life could exist in the upper atmosphere. As life is needed on earth to produce oxygen.

    But the amount is so low. That it is possible for natural non life processes especially under high pressure to generate oxygen.

    Where as we currently have 0 idea how any form of known life could develop in that environment.

    So yes it’s seen as unlikely. But not impossible.


  • Wasn’t there something similar on Venus

    No. Venus has no real moons. Just one captured astroid. And that has no history of suspected life.

    Jupiter Def has some maybe life questions on a moon. But no organic evidence. So that is the most likely you remember. Also Saturn’s moon titan has been considered a likely candidate in the past. But no hints of actual organics.

    This while still a long way from proof. Is the closest we have ever come to potential evidence of life in our Solar system.

    Just in case you are way off. Extra solar has had some organic evidence. K2-18b has been seen by James web to have molecules possibly formed by life. But other option are possible. Just never seen on earth.

    In general now is the time to be following such interests. Lots planned to analyse these sources closer.


  • It also has had real issues finding funding. And yes many who have worked for it. Have then had real issues finding work outside that field.

    So yes by many it has spent a sizable portion of that 65 years seen as not real science. And a waste of money.

    Quackery is a term normally saved for medical non science. Not a term I tend to use unless the scientific background is actually false.

    Scientists tend to just question the effectiveness and cost of a scientific endever.


  • Agreed. No sane scientist will say it exists.

    The strongest claim would be,. That it is less likely 0 life outside earth exist then some.

    But what OP says is far more quack like, although traditionally quack is a term saved for medical lack of science. It feels right here.

    As you say. His claim that extra terrestrial life Is on earth is not only without evidence. It opposes much evidence we do have. Like the limitations of distance or any other traveling life within our solar system.


  • The fact that unidentified things exist on this planet is clear.

    Them coming from a extra terrestrial source is not in any way clear. Without any evidence of the transfer of life to or from earth. The idea of extra terrestrial origins of any form of earth bound life is still to be questioned.

    You say extraterrestrial life is only recently accepted as feasible by scientist. In this you are correct, mainly due to evidence off the number of plannets.

    But no seriose scientist has any reason to accept that life has reached earth. First due to 0 evidence of such life having the ability to travel existing within our own solar system. 2nd from the complete lack of evidence of any form of faster then light gravel from other solar systems. Along with no yet existing evidence of life.

    It is in no way scientifically feasable to believe any of your experience is extra terrestrial in origin or alive.


  • True nowadays. And for about 20 years.

    But in the not to distant past. Yes the whole idea of alien life was often seen by more strict researchers as quakery. Although unfairly so. Scientist dispite their denial have some very clear bias when seeing 0 evidence. Dispite the logical falicy in it. The lack of ability to research potential distant star systems. Made dedicating your research to it a little questionable and resulted in some negative views. Or at the least the idea that you were not seriose in expecting any real breakthroughs. And just wasting money and resources.

    The thing that made the difference was the number of planners found. Via new methodologies. As we developed the ability to monitor stars. And saw just how many had planets. Even with limited evidence on earth sized planners. It quickly became more questionable to think of earth as unique. Then quickly more earth sized planets became identifiable as more data was available. So more scientists started to take the research seriously.

    Now it is very much common opinion that earth being unique is rather a dumb assumption science wise. Dispite it always being unlikely. The evidence now makes research seem less wasteful.


  • not very useful for power cables and lines.

    While you are correct about time. That is true of most if not all new science.

    But. While media oversimplification of science. Concentrates on cost etc. power lines ETC is in no way the main needs of super conductors. We already have theability to move electricity that way. And the cost of lose at high voltage is nothing compared to rebuilding the system with some new materials we don’t have yet. It works ATM. With transformers etc. a relatively cheap and very easy technology.

    The more needed tech is in the small scale. Magnetic effects with super conductors etc. The effect on magnetic flux when using low to no resistance conductors is huge. Basically a whole different science to the every day electro magnetic effect we see in almost all modern technology.


  • The complaints are more about lack of support for OS drivers. If using proprietary drivers is not a worry. Then they are fine. Often the OS stuff works if your set up is simple.

    My advice. Do not upgrade to quickly. They tend to have errors in their new proprietary drivers. Watch and see how others have done. Before upgrading essential machines.

    The other issue. For non rendering. Their latest models performance to £$ etc is getting very bad. But blender still has major speed advantages on Nvidia. But that is looking more and more short term as blender grows.




  • 400 and 500 case are identical E. It is not the space. But the fact that opening the case is not considered a user task.

    The 500plus has bolts to open the case rather then the having to deal with breakable clips. The 400 and 500 case need a little more width and completelly new injection moulding to do that.

    As I made clear in my post. What you and I are willing to do. Vs what a corporation is willing to sell as maintainable are different.SSD and storage in general has consumer expected requirement to be replaceable. Hence why every laptop etc has easy covers for upgrade.

    Doing that requires a whole new case with now injection moulding machines and factory lines etc.


  • shows what they were up to when they left the M2 slot out of the original Pi 500. I’m sure it helps.

    Likely the issue was that the board layout as is. Did not allow for the current 400 case to take the M2 slot in a way that users could have easy access.

    While you and Def I. May not worry about having to unclip the case. For a company selling mainly as an educational product. (Dispite that no longer being their main market).

    The cost and time for case mods of that level. Likely made this option much more logical.

    Many guess something like this was the next stage. Keyboard is a real nice suprise though.