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More bad news for the US science community (www.usatoday.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/science@lemmy.world
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NCAR is not only one of the leaders in climate science, but is an exceptionally important institution for space weather and upper atmosphere modeling. This will be an enormous loss for the scientific community. As someone in the atmospheric and space science community, this decision will have devastating consequences for decades to come.

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[–] -2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Billionaire immortality would be the best thing to happen to the world.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Altered Carbon is a great little sci-fi show that explores what might happen in such a scenario. According to the writer, the slow accumulation of money making money would trend to infinite, leaving a world that makes what we have now look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    what

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Because then they would have to live in it, and would theoretically stop burning it down.

    I don't know if "best" feels right, but I can see the upside. Of course, then they'd be immortal overlords, and that probably wouldn't go well either.

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