(202110144) Is Islam really "the religion of violence" (as some people always claim)?
Answer: Absolutely NOT!
Mainstream (Sunni(te)) Islam actually always strongly encourages Muslims to be peaceful law-abiding citizens!
It does not just always strongly discourage Muslims from terrorism but also from joining uprisings/riots or street protests!
(Also let's not forget that history of Christianity & Judaism also have plenty of violence!
But, would it be really justified, blaming a whole religion & all its believers because of the bad actions of some/few people?)
(202110144) Commented on the article:
"William Shatner cried upon returning from space. The “overview effect” explains why"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/william-shatner-57385030
IMHO, space tourism is a really great/beneficial development for the whole world/humanity!
& first flights getting done by world-famous celebrities would help greatly for space tourism to take-off!
& of course, its costs would drop over time & so, someday probably almost everybody could experience its positive/profound worldview-changing (overview) effect!
(Not to mention, I think all kinds of space tech would start advancing fast, because of space tourism! Think about how much commercial aviation helped advancement of aircraft tech, for example!)
(Also, let's realize that commercial aviation had started as "air tourism" (in the beginning times of 20th Century) & later advanced/matured to carrying passengers & cargo at large-scale!)
(202110214) Should we remove (all) dams?:
Dams have countless HUGE BENEFITS for society, for flood control, steady water storage/resource, agriculture, fishing, tourism, clean energy production etc!!!
& even if they cause harm to any kind of wildlife then they also greatly help many other kinds of wildlife, for sure (like wild birds, for example)!
Not to mention, should we also remove cities & roads & agricultural fields, if they cause any harm to any kind of wildlife?
(202110214) Should we try to do any kind of geoengineering to fix Global Warming?
IMHO, all geoengineering ideas are band-aid solutions, which just mask/hide the problem, instead of really curing it!
So, the underlying problem would keep getting worse, until any/all geoengineering does not work, either!
& no doubt there would be unforeseen side effects!
(Or, can we really claim, we completely/perfectly understand everything about climate now, so we can always predict it completely/perfectly?)
& who will be willing to pay astronomical (initial & continuous) costs?
Who will be willing to pay for any damages/losses/failures?
Why not focus on really practical and risk-free solutions like, restoring forests of Earth, reducing fossil fuel usage, increasing solar/wind/hydro-power (& keep researching better nuclear fission & fusion tech)?
(Which all would have countless side-benefits, besides of saving climate!)
(202110225) HK was rented by UK from China for 99 years (which expired many years ago), AFAIK!
& so, HK is fully/completely/absolutely a Chinese Territory now (or is it not?)!
& so, I have absolutely no idea, why UK still thinks/feels to be responsible for HK!
& how about issues between China & Taiwan?
IMHO, that is also no business of UK/USA, but business of UN!!
(By the way, IMHO, what happened in Korea or Vietnam was really none of business of USA!!!)
(By the way, IMHO, when international military action is really/absolutely justified is, when there is a really desperate (large-scale!) humanitarian situation!)
(Of course, there maybe exceptional situations, but they really should/must have extremely good reason(s) (IMHO) (maybe like massive harm to world trade or vital world supply etc)!)
(First necessary condition for a government to decide for international military action needs to be verify/prove overwhelming majority public support, IMHO!)
(By the way, IMHO, USA-led military coalition saving Kuwait from invasion of Iraq could be said to be justified, since vital world supply of oil was at stake!
But USA did a huge mistake, after saving Kuwait:
When Iraq accepted unconditional surrender afterwards, USA should have forced Iraq to sign an agreement to make reforms towards switching the country to a true democracy (& also improving public freedoms & education & stopping development of nuclear tech etc)!
Instead USA let alone Iraqi dictatorship to continue doing whatever they want, until they created more/new problems in the future!)
(In the case of Afghanistan keep harboring extremely dangerous global terrorists, I think what I would do would be, hit/destroy their important/valuable places/targets (like military bases or even government buildings), again & again, until they changed their mind (instead of doing invasion/occupation)!!)
((202110236) IMHO, the same strategy also maybe the ultimate/final solution to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, if it really need/wanted to be done & all diplomatic attempts fail!)
(202110225) IMHO, quite on the contrary to what some very naive people think, threat of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is what really prevents WW3!!!
That is really/actually why no local/regional wars (which still happen!) ever able to escalate towards triggering WW3!!!
Because, all superpower countries are always well aware of threat of MAD, just like "the Sword of Damocles"!
Realize, for example, even tough WW1 had caused massive death & destruction, there was a new world war triggered just about 20 years later!
It is not really because we do not have a WW3 because whole world/humanity learned its lesson!!!
(202110225) Is an economic/trade war between USA & China justified?:
IMHO, the answer is absolutely YES!!
IMHO, China stole so many/much military/commercial tech from USA (& its allies) & keep competing unfairly (using many tricks/tactics)!
(202110273) Commented on the article:
"Terraforming: why the Moon is a better target than Mars"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/terraforming-why-57917377
IMHO, the most practical solution for building a long-term base on Moon is quite possibly a remote-controlled robotic tunnel boring machine!
Imagine, after building each tunnel, exit(s) are sealed (w/ large round airlock gate(s)) & it is filled w/ air!
(We would also need to develop remote-controlled (humanoid) robot workers!)
IMHO, the critical tech needed to build true/large/permanent floating cities is fusion power!
Because then, we could mine & process truly massive quantities of titanium (which is very light & strong & durable)!
Imagine, afterwards, easily/quickly building floating cities which are so large & strong that even the most powerful storms/hurricanes/typhoons are completely harmless!
(How?: By designing standard LEGO-like pieces/sets!)
(202110284) About COVID-19 Pandemic:
Let's try to think it thru:
There was a huge economic war going on between China & USA & USA was winning!
But suddenly, a virus comes out of a Chinese city (w/ a virus research lab!) & destroys economies of USA & all its allies (but NOT the economy of China somehow!)!
The virus quickly spreads to whole rest of the world, but w/o first spreading into the rest of China somehow!
(By the way, realize that giving the enemy a disease is actually a wellknown ancient war tactic/trick!)
There are millions of dead & trillions of damage to the rest of the world, but somehow, China insists preventing all attempts to research the origin of the virus!
They do not want to prove themselves innocent?
Are we seriously supposed to believe that China could really/actually have an innocent/legitimate reason to justify preventing such research (but somehow just do not want to tell to the whole world?)?
(I think, it is also very clear that Chinese Government already knew about the virus way before than when they actually informed/warned the rest of the world!)
(Also, let's realize that, there is really/actually no need for the virus to be engineered! It could be just a selected suitable natural virus that is "trained" to attack humans!)
(Imagine afterwards, for example, secretly sending operatives to various target countries/cities in the world
& after the virus starts spreading in all target countries, imagine, you also release it in your own target city (Wuhan) & quickly/easily contain it there (since you already know very well what exactly you are dealing w/!)!)
(202110295) Is there really any concrete evidence that Cooper pairs actually exists?
Why that theory cannot explain all superconductors, if superconductivity really happens that way?
What if, (all kinds of) superconductivity is just electrons creating a (2D/3D) superfluid state?
(202110295) Commented on the article:
"Ask Ethan: What should everyone know about quantum mechanics?"
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ask-ethan-what-58023922
It seems to me, the true profound importance/interpretation of QM is still not yet generally understood/accepted by (theoretical) physicists & that is our whole reality itself is a quantum computer!
(On the contrary to general belief, IMHO, quantum computers are NOT really/purely a human invention! We are just learning how to hijack/manipulate our reality quantum computer to do some computations we want! :-)
(& so, IMHO all real & virtual particles are just cluster/registers of qubit/qutrit data w/ some internal state values constant & some variable!)
(& spacetime & E/M fields etc are just emergent properties created by virtual particles!)
(& if anybody claimed that "all quantum particles (of the same kind/type) have always constant/identical internal states" then I would ask:
How do you explain Pauli Exclusion Principle (for example)? Isn't it really depend on quantum particles being in different internal states?
Not to mention, don't we already have quantum computers storing/processing qubit data using individual photons or electrons? Isn't that really require variable internal states?)
(202110306) (Mathematicians also had thought that they "invented" fractals & fractal geometry, but later they were found to be already exist everywhere in nature/universe! :-)
(I think the same could also be said for complex (2D) numbers (at least!)!)
(202112267) Quite possibly quaternions (4D numbers) & octonions (8D numbers) are also fundamental parts of our reality (& maybe even sedenions (16D numbers) too!)!
(202111044) Also let's realize that our whole universe/reality being a quantum computer would also explain why our universe/reality seems extremely/perfectly mathematical (which is a fact that had surprised many great scientists)!
& also realize that any (classical/quantum) computer maybe hardware-based (physical) or software-based (simulation)!
