We still can't really scale it up that well though, and even what renewable energy we have managed to make happen was done with the help of our giant thermodynamic subsidies
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Replying to @interpretantion @Virtual1nstinct
Who knows though, maybe we'd have figured out electricity and slowly built an economy around pooled kinetic energy output thus slowly bootstrapping
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Replying to @Jed_Trott @Virtual1nstinct
I'm just wondering if we'd be able to make the leap necessary to make a nuclear plant. It's like if you're on a ladder the rungs have to be close together enough so you can get to the higher rung via the ones below it
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Carl Sagan makes the case in Cosmos that scientific progress slowed down after its successes made more powerful and profitable market economies, with a slave class for labor. He suggests that science is a manual endeavour, and when you remove yourself from it progress slows.pic.twitter.com/55osfPMoMM
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