[Q&A+] Magnetic Poles Flip, Hypervelocity Stars from Andromeda, Potential Target for New Horizons

Actually people in China could receive emails sent from gmail or google server... but I believe the issue is language barrier. If you need my help please msg me Fraser

An ant the size of a person. What a terrifying idea!

Why limit ourselves to speculating about the future of ants? Why not slime mould, or even trees? One problem that I see with this discussion so far is that it is limited to how intelligent social ants can be, and whether that intelligence can evolve further. It is perfectly valid to look at that intelligence as an emergent capability, analogous to the way that human animals can appear to be more intelligent than a single human cell, or even how human society can appear to be more intelligent than a single human beings (single human beings cannot achieve space travel, it is only human societies that achieve space travel). The question then is what is it about human societies that allow them to achieve space travel, and what other species of life (not necessarily limited to animal life) might achieve the same ends? There are 3 aspects of human activity that seem to contribute to these achievements: 1) rate of information exchange (using language); 2) amount of information storage (both individual storage and shared information); 3) the ability of humans to translate this intelligence into physical activity (i.e. to convert energy into large structures). Of course, many of these features have significantly been amplified through modern indistrialisation that has been able to channel large amounts of energy (through the use of fossil fuels) into both information processing and physical construction, and the question has to be asked as to which types of life are likely to be able to use their existing talents to leverage large external energy resources. This is where the possibility lies that trees could have access to energy at least as much as ants. Trees can also potentially have the capability to store lots of information (because of their long lifespan), but what they do lack is the ability to have high bandwidth information exchange (they can transmit information tree to tree. but the rate of information exchange is very slow by comparison with human beings, or even social insects). One problem with social insects is that their short lifespans limit their ability to retain memory, even though they may be able to transmit a fair amount on information, but that information is lost as the colony collapses.

Cybersecurity professional here. I recommend Proton (https://proton.me) for email hosting, either as a primary or a secondary email host. They're in Switzerland (and do not in any way answer to the US government or the rest of the western intelligence alliances i.e. Five Eyes) and have an excellent history of privacy and security. You likely will have a (slightly) better chance with Chinese agencies.

Hey Fraser been a long time viewer. My first time posting a question. “Would it be practical to put a telescope on the same size & or power of Hubble in the Kuiper Belt?” Thank you.