Hello Dirk. Comfort is always possible thanks to solar panels ?. An idea !

^Thank you EyeR. My ADD got the best of me. I read that page many times before this forum even existed, and I just totally forgot that they even mentioned it.

^Hello, sammwich. Where did you find the information about elections being held on June? Thank you.

That whole "spiral through space" thing is poetic but kind of meaningless. It would be best to let it go because it encourages thinking that doesn't lead to productive results, beyond simple enjoyment - of which I don't think you can be denied because it is cool. There are troubles with treating our world as a spaceship : we have no control over where it goes. It has a massive gravity-well and it has a thick atmosphere, so extra planetary resources are difficult to reach. It has complex weather systems, ecological and environmental sensitivity to industry and agriculture that will lead to pollution and reduced yields. It's in the path of incoming asteroids and comets. It's shared by warring factions that hold each other in a game of nuclear and economic checkmate. It's biosphere is collapsing. It's not going anywhere that's useful or interesting any time soon. It also has dwindling resources. I'm not trying to bring you down, I just think the viral spiral thingy has led to some highly misleading myths.

> They are working on it. lol. So we can expect something, when? Seriosuly tho, as previously mentioned simple tweaks to the current input system for posts within a certain timeframe, or specific user agents and or system fingerprints will drastically reduce possiblilty of automated posts. Currently I've only seen manual spam so ideally the input system would also check the content of what they have posted against content they have previously posted - repetitive links or terminonlogy can depending on level of match disallow posting or flag for moderator attention. Something simple like fail2ban would be trivial to make observe the ngnix logs and additionally respond in near realtime to the likes of high rates of traffic indicating clearly inhuman use, report and catalogue common attempts at exploitations, just about anything you can pattern or define a response.

Depends pretty much on how you define the "Spammer" state. There are several ways to do such thing. General prevention is to cap maximum posts per time interval. Legit posters which would excede the posting limit could be excluded then by mods.

Great Idea, Dirk. I just love it! “Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.” (Seth Godin) Greetings, Leonardo.

Just had me some vague idea, seeing this topic again. Considering floating structures and supply chains I'd supposed some (potentially solar/tidal powered) little autonomous tugs can both move the pods to deployment zone, and with climate controlled compartments potentially ferry goods like food. A similar initative could possibly float over a few pods configured up for recycling and processing. A lot of that can possibly be directly recycled as manufacturing fodder, producing more parts for pods, hulls for tugs etc and feeding things like 3D printers on the floating habitation lessening the impact of the lengthened supply chain from floating in international waters. This potentially wouldn't take any money, as much as it'd save money. Getting things into the middle of nowhere is a chore at best. An automated solution picking up scrap from a pile of crap you can see from space and feeding it into localised facilities(powered by solar, wind, tidal, current) and then moving either granules or extruded filiment could result in a lot more that we can actually use and the operational costs should be minimal - it shouldn't take long to "pay for itself" and then shortly after provide for return.

It is important to aware people not to throw waste product into the ocean. fishes and other sea animals are hugely affected by this. The next thing is, government should start a campaign to clean the ocean. It is going take lots of money but isn't it our duty to take care of our planet?

Plastics in the sea, in terms of random refuse, is certianly a problem - it's been visible from space for decades. On a more positive note, with regards refuse and to floating structures, there is one man who was homeless, and where he lived the weather was okay to sleep under the stars on the beach for a while, and he became dismayed at all the empty plastic bottles that regularly appeared - so be began to collect them. Eventually he had enough to use as ballast and he built himself his own personal floating island mostly out of scrap he found of on the beach. You should look it up, it's not as shabby as you'd think - it's quite substantial, he even has trees growing on it. Now, I'd not suggest we follow suit. It was just something that struck me as a novel use. More realistically, IMHO would be to recycle the plastics and use that to make things. There's already a few posts in other places with regards to the likes of taking common waste otherwise destined for recycling and using as a construction material through things like 3D printing. If harvested, most can be re-used. There's also posts about floating structures. Someone on reddit had claimed to be well versed in nautical engineering, building ships hulls for some time and had proposed "floating structures" - I personally think in a modular fashion this could be reasonably effective. As a launch platform, I question if it would be stable enough. The only logical place to float such structures would be right out in open and international waters. It could be rendered stable enough for habitation, especially if the center of gravity is below the surface, but launching is a little fickle. I'm to understand once it's fueled up it doesn't like lateral sway. There some citation on this "reverse magnetism" or was that some allusion to some future antigravity technogy? In terms of "biodegradable materials" - most plastic waste is that involved with packaging. Ages ago Eben Bayer had a TED talk: Are mushrooms the new packaging? Specifically targetting polystyrene foams he'd found a way to effectively grow mushrooms on natural organic waste in a mould that resulted in a suitable replacement for polystyrene in most applications with similar properties apart from it's non-toxic and biodegradable. You really don't get much cheaper than mold, a little leaf mulch and a few twigs - it doens't need overly obscure conditions to thrive and has no particularly rare ingredients. Throwing it away when you're done with it doesn't cause a problem.

I've actually thought about a hologram projected room similar to a planetarium but much smaller and designed to create a simulated environment for relieving stress. It would be a type of stress-relief and meditation space where you could click a button and feel like your at the beach or on a hill overlooking a sunset with many other projected views of nature.

Kali Linux. I would love to learn how to use Kali effectively. Would you have some easy to follow tutorials? -Agnostic72