503. Smartass answers to frequently asked deep philosophical questions

How to be a better person?
By not asking silly questions.

Why do we have to die?
Welcome to the human condition 101.

What is consciousness?
The information stored in the electromagnetic field of your brain. further reading can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_theories_of_consciousness

Am I happy?
Why do you want to be happy?

Who shot JFK?
Lee Harvey Oswald?

What happens when you die?
You will be incinerated or get eaten by worms, vultures and other corpse eating creatures.

Who am I?
Whoever you want to be.

Is masturbation a sin?
It depends on what you masturbate to.
As a rule of thumb if you masturbate to situations where you are having sexual intercourse with something that is or was alive and does not or is not able to give his/her/its consent then yes it is a sin. You disgusting piece of shit.

How to forgive
By not forgetting.

Will I ever be thin?

Sure, if there is no pathological condition just stop eating shit.

What is scientology?
A religion that wants your money. Sounds familiar?

Did the moon landings actually happen?
Yes.

How to read palms
By taking a marker and writing something on them.

Where in the bible does it say that homosexuality is a sin?
Ask those who preach it.
Most of them will cringe at first but then will take you behind the altar to purify your soul and..

What religion is Donald and Melania Trump?
Capitalism.

What do Muslims believe?
That there is a supreme being that has created the world and that your afterlife will be judged according to your present day actions. Sounds familiar?

How to hypnotize someone
By using rape pills. You worthless piece of shit, scum of the earth.

Reincarnation
Remasturbation

What is heaven like?
It's like her warm wet dripping pussy.

What is hell?
Being taken behind the altar. See above

Relationship between religion and science
Not related. This does not mean that they can reproduce.

What is beauty?
Beauty is like heaven. See above

What is love?
Baby don't hurt me


What is my life purpose?
To be in heaven. See above

What is evil?
Anything that keeps you outside of heaven. See above

Is god real?
Yes I am.

Does god exist?
Yes I do.

Why do bad things happen to good people?
Because they are naïve and don't have contingency plans due to their belief that they are not evil. Spoiler: bad things happen also to bad people but they are not whining about it.

When will the world end?
It has already ended on December 21st 2012 AD. You are living in a matrix like simulation and your body fluids are used as ingredients for your overlord's beverages.
As if I had to apologize to the cows and the sheep of this reality for my cappuccinos and my yoghurts.

Is there life after death?
Is there life before death?
Is there death before life?
Is there death after life?

Why does god hate me?
I don't. Rest assured.

What is truth?
Any argument that does not rely on false premises and is well structured.

How to live forever?
Ask Jesus or Ray Kurzweil.

How to suicide
Pick you shit: Wrist cutting, Dehydration, Disease, Drowning, Electrocution, Firearm, Hanging, Hypothermia, Immolation, Volcano, Indirect suicide, Animal attacks, Jumping from height, Poison, Pesticide, Drug overdose, Carbon monoxide, Ritual suicide, Seppuku, Autosacrifice, Self-strangulation, Starvation, Suffocation, Suicide attack, Vehicular impact, Rail, Metro systems, Car Aircraft.

Who is your soulmate?
Mary. The virgin one.

What are the winning lottery numbers?
6 32 55 12 87 64

Do aliens exist?
Yeap.

Is time travel possible?
Only to the future. That's where the arrow of time points to.

Will I ever be rich?
I charge 100$/hour to anyone who asks me this question. Alternatively I can sell some lottery tickets.

What is the meaning of life?
42. Duh

Do ghosts exist?
How many times did you need to drink, how many sluts did you have to fuck in order to forget your soulmate?

Is there a parallel universe?
Not only one. Plenty of them.

How do we end poverty?
By mining asteroids, using solar and wind energy and fusion reactors. Be patient.

Is there a God?
Not only one. Plenty of them.

Is the Loch Ness Monster alive?
Yeah sure.

Am I a good person?
I charge 100$/hour to anyone who asks this question. Alternatively you can go ask the bible preachers the same shit.

Did Donald Trump rig the election?
The Russians surely wanted Hillary not to get elected.

When will I die?
Sometime in the foreseeable future. Be patient.

How am I going to die?
In angst, in pain or peacefully in your sleep.

Do people like me?
When you don't ask silly questions, they don't hate you.

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
The chicken.
"The scientific and philosophical mystery was purportedly unraveled by researchers at Sheffield and Warwick universities, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.
The scientists found that a protein found only in a chicken's ovaries is necessary for the formation of the egg, according to the paper Wednesday. The egg can therefore only exist if it has been created inside a chicken."

Am I good looking?
People are having sex with horses and the exhaust pipes of cars. I am sure somebody finds you good looking.

Does my cat really like me?
HELL NO!

Am I good in bed?
Does her/your pussy drip?

Is my partner cheating on me?
It depends.

I want to die
Pick you shit (x2): Wrist cutting, Dehydration, Disease, Drowning, Electrocution, Firearm, Hanging, Hypothermia, Immolation, Volcano, Indirect suicide, Animal attacks, Jumping from height, Poison, Pesticide, Drug overdose, Carbon monoxide, Ritual suicide, Seppuku, Autosacrifice, Self-strangulation, Starvation, Suffocation, Suicide attack, Vehicular impact, Rail, Metro systems, Car Aircraft.

What is Time?
The fourth dimension of timespace. (x,y,z,t)

What happens after death?
Nothing.

Are human beings just machines?
Yeap.

Destiny? Free Will?
Mayo? Mustard?

What is Philosophy?
The love of wisdom. Learn greek otherwise you will stay in this barbaric state of mind, asking silly questions.

Who's in charge of outer space?

Date: 23/05/2017
Source: foxnews.com

In space, no one can hear you scheme. But here on Earth, plans to go where few have gone before are getting louder by the minute.

In February, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo passed its third glide-flight test, putting it on pace to offer suborbital space tourism by the end of 2018. In March, Goldman Sachs announced to investors that a single asteroid containing $25 billion to $50 billion of platinum could be mined by a spacecraft costing only $2.6 billion—less than a third of what has been invested in Uber.

“While the psychological barrier to mining asteroids is high,” the Goldman report concludes, “the actual financial and technological barriers are far lower.” In April, NASA selected Trans Astronautica Corp., an aerospace company based in Lake View Terrace, Calif., for $3.25 million in technology study grants. Among TransAstra’s NASA-approved projects: an asteroid-hunting telescope whose stated mission is “to start a gold rush in space.”

The final frontier is starting to look a lot like the Wild West. As more companies announce ambitious plans to do business beyond Earth, serious questions are emerging about the legality of off-planet activity.

This story originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

NASA's new Psyche mission will take us to a metal asteroid for the first time

It may be the naked core of an ancient plan

DATE: 04/01/2017
RETRIEVED: 23/01/2017
SOURCE: POPSCI


Asteroids are some of the last unexplored territories in the solar system. To help fill in some of the blanks, NASA just announced two upcoming missions that will visit new types of asteroids in the 2030s.

Launching in 2023, the Psyche spacecraft will fly into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to explore an asteroid quite unlike the balls of mud, ice, and rock we've studied before; "16 Psyche" is a giant hunk of metal. Measuring 130 miles in diameter, it's thought to be made of iron and nickel.

16 Psyche may be the leftover core of a protoplanet—an infant world as large as Mars. Violent collisions are thought to have blasted away its rocky outer layers, leaving behind an asteroid very similar to Earth's own metallic core


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http://www.popsci.com/nasas-new-psyche-mission-will-explore-metal-asteroid-for-first-time

NASA Takes A Leap Towards Asteroid Mining In Space: A Highly Ambitious Venture Under NASA's Discovery Program

DATE: 06/01/2017
SOURCE: SCIENCE WORDL REPORT


NASA has started working towards its future missions of asteroid mining in space. Two asteroids missions were integrated into NASA's Discovery Program and were given the green signal to proceed. The announcement made by NASA on Jan. 4, 2017 stated that the Lucy and Psyche asteroid missions are a "go."

Each mission has an estimated budget of $450 million and is expected to launch in the early 2020s. Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for Science, NASA, held a teleconference and announced that "These small body missions complement NASA's exploration and are crucial parts of learning about our solar system and crucial parts of our programs going forward."


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http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/55887/20170106/nasa-asteroid-mining-space-highly-ambitious-discovery-program.htm

Space Colonies Will Start Out Like the Wild West, Grow Family-Friendly

DATE: 30/12/2016
SOURCE: SPACE.COM


The initial stages of colonization would most likely be conducted by workers who would build the necessary support systems, the panelists said. This idea led to a vigorous discussion about who those workers might be. An audience member asked if the first colonists would be the wealthy elite, but the panelists quickly dismissed this, saying the group would more likely rely on blue-collar workers skilled at hands-on labor.

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"Expect a working middle class for a while," Gannon said. "The wealthy will manipulate from safer, easier environments, and the poor are unlikely to have the necessary skill sets that warrant someone else paying a ticket for them."

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Gannon named the biggest challenge facing a colony that aimed to grow independent from the people back home: the supply of volatiles, particularly oxygen and water. The first explorers would need to find a way for colonists to harvest those on the new world, Gannon said.

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 "The colony would ask the question early on what it values," Davis said. At that point, the colonists may seek to become fully independent from Earth, much like many of England's colonies did from the home country, Davis said. Each colony might approach its negotiations for materials differently, he said. "They'll find that out [what they value], and play political judo."

An effort to become self-sustaining would most likely affect colonial education. Instead of focusing on traditional schoolhouse learning, education might be more likely to follow family or professional lines, the panelists said.

The panelists named another requirement for full independence that Earth's colonists never had to worry about: genetic diversity.


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 "If humanity doesn't have the 'right' to exist, who sits in judgment?" Davis wondered. He pointed to the survival instinct that has brought humans to their current state, and the possibility of an event that could kill off the human population, such as an asteroid or comet impact.

But humans could do even more damage than depleting a world of natural resources and leaving behind a barren wasteland. People could inadvertently kill off an undetected life-form, which raises important moral issues, panelist said.



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http://www.space.com/35179-space-colonies-for-future-humanity.html

Where does Jeff Bezos foresee putting space colonists? Inside O’Neill cylinders

DATE: 29/10/2016
WRITTEN BY: ALAN BOYLE
SOURCE: GEEKWIRE



SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars. Others talk about a Moon Village. But Seattle billionaire Jeff Bezos has a different kind of off-Earth home in mind when he talks about having millions of people living and working in space.

His long-range vision focuses on a decades-old concept for huge artificial habitats that are best known today as O’Neill cylinders.

“We need to go into space if we want to continue growing civilization,” he explained. “If you take baseline energy usage on Earth and compound it at just 3 percent per year for less than 500 years, you have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells. That’s just not going to happen.”

Some might say the limits to growth will force civilization into a static condition, but Bezos sees space industry as the frontier for continued growth.

“I predict that in the next few hundred years, all heavy industry will move off planet. It will be just way more convenient to do it in space, where you have better access to resources, better access to 24/7 solar power,” he said last weekend. “Solar power on Earth is not that great, because the planet shades us half the time. In space, you get solar power all the time. So there’ll be a lot of advantages to doing heavy manufacturing there, and Earth will end up zoned residential and light industry.”

The way Bezos sees it, in-space power generation and manufacturing is the answer, rather than sending a million people to Mars.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE @ http://www.geekwire.com/2016/jeff-bezos-space-colonies-oneill/

New Law Lets Companies Own Parts of Asteroids

DATE: 15/11/2016
AUTHOR: JELOR GALLEGO
SOURCE: FUTURISM


Innovation Through Law

Luxembourg is a country that has been pursuing an aggressive policy in space mining, doing everything to attract businesses willing to work on mining asteroids. Now, it has passed a new milestone, adopting a draft law regarding ownership of mined space resources.

The draft law, which will be in effect in early 2017, gives private companies ownership of the materials they mine from space. It is the first European country to give certainty to ownership, further cementing Luxembourg as Europe’s space mining hub.

The law sets the regulations that have to be passed in order for companies to engage in space mining. They will have to ask for authorization from the Luxembourg government, detailing each specific mission.


READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE @ http://futurism.com/new-law-lets-companies-own-parts-of-asteroids/

Japan Is Going to Mine the Moon

DATE: 20/12/2016
AUTHOR: KASTALIA MEDRANO
SOURCE: INVERSE



The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Friday that it will begin working with a private lunar robotics exploration company to mine for resources on the moon. The Tokyo-based ispace Inc. should help facilitate Japan’s (somewhat late) entry into the rapidly growing and potentially lucrative field of space mining.

Space mining sounds like a fun but made-up occupation set in the dystopian future, sort of like space archaeologist (real) or space cowboy (less real). But this is far from so — space mining is quickly becoming a ring into which multiple nations and space entities are tossing their respective hats. Luxembourg, for instance, has a head start on Japan here, and the United States already introduced “finders-keepers” legislation for resources recovered from space mining more than a year ago.

Space-resource development is garnering attention around the world now,” ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada told The Wall Street Journal. “It’s very important that we work to commercialize and create rules while we still have a technological advantage globally.”

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE @ https://www.inverse.com/article/25411-japan-space-mining-moon-water-fuel

How soon could asteroid mining become a reality?

DATE: 13/12/2016
AUTHOR: MICHAEL BUSCH
SOURCE: QUORA, FORBES

About 10 years, if funding is allocated by US Congress during 2017 and later years.

NASA is currently planning the Asteroid Redirect Mission, which would use a robotic spacecraft to - among other things* - return 20–50 tons of asteroid material to lunar orbit for human astronauts to work with. Under the current plan; ARM would launch the robotic spacecraft at the end of 2021, arrive at the asteroid 2008 EV5 in 2023, and return to Earth-Moon space in 2025. Astronauts would work with the returned asteroid material in 2026.

ARM would provide the opportunity to flight-demonstrate space resource utilization on a fairly large scale. For example, the astronauts could put a few hundred kilograms of asteroid material into a prototype water-extraction system provided by one of the current space-resource start-up companies and get ~30 kg of water out of it (2008 EV5 is perhaps 10% water by mass on its surface).

ARM by itself wouldn’t quite be enough to make asteroid mining profitable. e.g. It would involve launching >5 tons of robotic spacecraft and getting back at most ~5 tons of water. At that point, it still makes more sense economically to ship water up from Earth. But demonstrations of space resource utilization are a necessary precursor to larger-scale asteroid mining that would be cost-effective in terms of providing products such as water, radiation shielding, and steel in space.

READ THE REST @ https://www.quora.com/How-soon-could-asteroid-mining-become-a-reality

Spacecraft to search for Trojan asteroids

DATE: 19/12/2016
AUTHOR: DEBORAH BYRD
SOURCE: EARTHSKY.ORG


In February 2017, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will search for Earth-Trojan asteroids in the vicinity of Earth’s L-4 point while on its outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu.

Earth’s number of known Trojan asteroid might take a leap up (or not) in February 2017, when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft – on its two-year outbound journey to asteroid Bennu – passes near Earth’s gravitationally stable L-4 point. This point lies 60 degrees ahead of us in orbit. Asteroids should, in theory, gather near there. Between February 9 and 20, the NASA spacecraft – whose mission team is at University of Arizona (UA) – will activate its onboard camera suite and search for Earth-Trojan asteroids.

The L-4 point is a Lagrangian point in the Earth-sun system. It’s sometimes referred to as a gravity well. Objects caught in orbit around L-4 aren’t pulled closer to either the sun or the Earth. Instead, they maintain their configuration – near one tip of an equilateral triangle with the Earth and sun – always moving ahead of Earth in orbit.

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By the way, because Trojan asteroids stay 60 degrees ahead of or behind Earth in orbit, there’s no danger they’ll collide with us.


READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE @ http://earthsky.org/space/osiris-rex-feb-2017-search-earth-trojan-asteroids

First trillionaire to fly from KSC?

DATE: 3/12/2015
AUTHOR: MATT REED
SOURCE FLORIDATODAY

Washington has done something really good.

It's the first piece of legislation in eight to 12 years that will enable the commercial market to take off.

It extends the International Space Station to 2024. Which is essential, because Boeing and SpaceX need to know they have a fair amount of time to recover their investments of their own money in the commercial-crew missions.

It puts pressure on NASA and the Air Force to work with the FAA to become even more commercially friendly.

Long-term, it provides clarity to the title of minerals that would be mined on asteroids and on the moon. Investors need to know that if they go up and mine a trillion dollars in platinum from an asteroid and bring it back to earth, that the market's going to recognize it as their property.

Kudos to the Florida delegation. Sen. Marco Rubio also sits on the space subcommittee. Congressman Posey pushed that asteroid-property-rights clarification.

READ THE REST @ http://www.floridatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/matt-reed/2015/12/02/matt-reed-first-trillionaire-fly-ksc/76689398/?hootPostID=fbacb99cfe59dacc5efa5a83479c5757

Ontario firm awarded contract to develop a drill for space mining on the moon

DATE: 12/04/2016
SOURCE: INVEST IN ONTARIO


Deltion Innovations Ltd. is an award-winning mining equipment design firm from Sudbury, Ontario that has recently received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop a drill for mining in space.

No longer just confined to the realm of the imagination, over the past decade, space mining has increasingly captured the minds of scientists, governments and private space mining companies. Once the budding industry gets off the ground, companies like Deltion Innovations are also expecting a big lift.
Made-in-Ontario space mining drill could play an important role in enabling long distance space travel


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http://www.investinontario.com/spotlights/ontario-firm-awarded-contract-develop-drill-space-mining-moon

All of humanity should share in the space mining boom

DATE: 19/04/2016
AUTHORS: MORGAN SALETTA & KEVIN ORMAN-ROSSITER (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE)
SOURCE: UNIVERSAL SCIENCE

One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially benefit all of humanity.

There are already companies, such as Planetary Resources, hoping to make mining in space a reality.

Peter Diamondis, co-founder of Planetary Resources and founder of the XPrize Grand Challenges, believes that the benefits to humanity give us a moral imperative to explore and utilise space. He has also declared “there are twenty-trillion-dollar checks up there, waiting to be cashed!"

However, behind the utopian rhetoric and dazzling dreams of riches lie some very real problems.

Ownership and the Outer Space Treaty

The framework of international space law is given by the Outer Space Treaty (OST), which entered into force in 1967. Among its main principals, the OST includes these statements:

    the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind

and,

    outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means

Because the OST is generally interpreted as preventing anything like private fee-simple ownership, it is sometimes claimed to be an obstacle to commercial ventures in space. But such claims simply do not hold water.

There are numerous terrestrial examples where resources are profitably exploited in the absence of fee-simple ownership. Governments routinely licence companies to engage in timber extraction, mining, offshore oil exploration and other activities, receiving royalties payments on production.

READ THE REST @ http://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2016/4/18/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom

Asteroid Mining News: Luxembourg Partners With Deep Space Industries For Prospector-X Mission

DATE: 05/05/216
AUTHOR: CHARLES POLADIAN
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES

The first trillionaire could be an asteroid prospector, if you believe entrepreneur Paul Diamandis. Asteroid mining is very much in its infancy, but Luxembourg wants to get in on the ground floor. Deep Space Industries and the government of the small European grand duchy announced Thursday a partnership that will help advance the technology required for spacecraft to mine highly valuable asteroids.

Prospector-X, the partnership between Luxembourg and Deep Space Industries, will be a research and development mission exploring experimental technologies that could be used in future asteroid mining missions. "The opportunity to partner with Luxembourg on Prospector-X allows a number of the key technologies for cost-effective deep space operations to be rapidly flight-tested in advance of more complex missions," Daniel Faber, CEO of Deep Space Industries, said in a statement. Luxembourg's space resources initiative was revealed in February. In its attempts to enter the asteroid mining industry, the tiny country is seeking partnerships with Planetary Resources — backed by the likes of Google founder and CEO of Alphabet Larry Page, Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt and Sir Richard Branson — and Deep Space Industries, with a headquarters on its territory.

READ THE REST @ http://www.ibtimes.com/asteroid-mining-news-luxembourg-partners-deep-space-industries-prospector-x-mission-2364780