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The Oort cloud is gravitationally bound to the Sun and all the Oort cloud objects orbit the Sun. Wherever the Sun goes, so does the Oort cloud. If an Oort cloud object happens to stray over the half way point to the nearest star then it will become bound to that star.

"The galaxy [M87] experiences an infall of gas at the rate of two to three solar masses per year, most of which may be accreted onto the core region." Burns, J. O.; White, R. A.; Haynes, M. P. (1981). "A search for neutral hydrogen in D and cD galaxies". The Astronomical Journal. 86: 1120–1125...

The limits to human knowledge would be a good discussion. For example, we can't have other universes because they would be part of the universe. By the same token, we cannot know what happened before the universe existed or that happening would be part of the universe.

I left a note on their door. I'm sure they'll find it when they take their milk in tomorrow morning.

Since these new worlds cannot be communicated with, the theory cannot be tested. This belongs in a religious forum.

I did. I was agreeing with you. I was repeating your riff and building on it.

If you need AI to check your AI you need to look for a different line of work, maybe take up gardening or reading.

LEO was as high as they could toss it. The delta V needed to deorbit from 250 km runs around 90 meters/second. The delta V to get from 250 km orbit to geosynchronous is around 2440 m/s. They are spending $840 million to deorbit. By a simple ratio, getting to geosynchronous might cost $23 billion.

Yes, AI is a tool. It can improve one's work and one's insight. Anyone can passibly mimic almost anyone. With an AI program, I could outdo any doctor. However, put AI in the hands of a doctor and they will go far beyond what I could do with my simple prompts. When you put AI in the hands of an...

I interpreted your remark as she was making it up as a joke. It really happened, but we all laugh at it.

Sorry, not following you, standing on my interpretation, but you're free to think whatever you want.

So, where is the irony?

Can you show me where I should have picked up on this? Based upon what I have read so far about AI, it makes sense. Such things as it is doing are common in humans, it would have scraped them off the internet and then it would have taken as gospel truth their assertions that "this is the only...

AI is not a "spiritual bliss attractor", it is mimicking what it was trained on. Without knowing what the two models were trained on, the output is meaningless. AI output is valid only with valid input. Otherwise it is meaningless gibberish.

What Musk does with his money is his own business. What NASA does with my tax dollars is my business and I don't like how they spend them. You are free to send all the money you want to them.