The do, frequently. I'm told daily that America did something. As a Canadian, we just accept that you guys have no idea how continents or countries work.
It is, but it's a far more nuanced version. Lack of funds is more leadership to blame. Getting sued by a patent troll, is what we all hope our side projects avoid long enough to obtain sufficient funding, so we can pay the crooks if need be.
I'm confused. Terraforming is 1000+ years away, if we are ever even able to do it at all. I'm unclear of what you mean by 'small levels' because either you are terraforming, or you aren't. You have to create an atmosphere, you need to create a planets worth or water, you need to inject a crap ton of CO2 into the atmosphere to create the material plants will use as building blocks, to create the O2. All of this is millennia away. We've been non stop injecting CO2 into the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial era, and that (while a bit of an issue today), isn't nearly enough carbon to begin to terraform a planet.
But for genetically modifying stuff, we're doing really well on that track. Most of the tech needed for designer babies is here. The issues with it aren't the tech existing, but our willingness to create massive numbers of defective offspring before we get a viable glow in the dark human. It's not the tech that's lacking, only our appetite for failed runs and a severe distaste for side-effects. But that's proven to work, CRISPR has already proven to be able to make glow in the dark pigs, so it's a matter of refinement. We don't have the slightest clue about terraforming. Just ideas at this point.
"the danger that about 20 million people in four countries will suffer famine in the coming months, and that hundreds of thousands of children will starve to death."
It does qualify as clickbait given that it being billed as "the worst" over a period that includes the great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. Estimates of how many died are in the range 15-45 million. In other words more DIED in that famine than are likely to be HUNGRY in this one.
The projected death toll is also below what actually happened to Cambodia in the late 1970s, in Rwanda in the 1994 genocide, during the second Congo War from 1998-2004, etc.
This is really, really terrible. You can say that without having amnesia about how many other really, really terrible things have happened.
Great examples. I was completely ignorant of the great Chinese famine, and didn't realize how high the death tolls of the other events you mentioned were. Thanks for educating me.
How much of a concern is this? Do we now need to use SHA512 for everything, or is this more of an academic vulnerability that we won't see in the wild?
