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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to Letgomyleghoe in When will we Start sending probes barring life to other worlds?   
    Yup, but space is 2.7 degrees kelvin, near absolute 0 and in sun it’s around 288 kelvin (240 f) it’s not actually 240f but the sun in your body will keep your skin temp at 240f and burn you to death from radiation.
     
    and if the space craft is spinning from shade to sun then it will most likely kill any bacteria from the quick heat differences.
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to straight_stewie in When will we Start sending probes barring life to other worlds?   
    Well, we're already this far.
     
    The first FTL flight in the Star Trek universe occurred in 2063. At our current rate of development, we will not make this deadline. This is important, because FTL flight is required to establish stable dependent colonies on any bodies besides our moon. We likely won't walk on an another planetary body again, including our moon, until we move past combustion engines for spaceflight. (Yes, I'm saying Trumps promise of the moon by 2024 is complete and utter bullshit. For more reasons than just this too.)
     
    Beyond this, Earth is the only naturally habitable planet in our solar system. There is one other planet within habitable distance of our sun, Venus, but it is no where near habitable. The least of Venus' habitability issues is no water.

    So, in order to inhabitant any other planets within our solar system with a large enough population to prevent species dependence on a single planet, we will need effective, positive, and planet scale environmental control systems. These are also a requirement for continued habitation on Earth. Currently, the only remotely pressing natural mass extinction issue is climate change, so if we develop planet scale environmental control systems, we will not be at risk of extinction within many millions of years.

    Of course, all of that is meaningless anyway. If we are only inhabiting planets in our solar system, and we have effective planet scale environmental control systems, humans are not at risk of naturally caused mass extinction on Earth until our Suns death, which will, of course, lead to an end of life everywhere in our solar system. Therefore, we don't just need FTL flight to make the plan worthwhile, we need the ability to establish stable dependent colonies in other solar systems.
     
    Oh, and to beat all of that, as long as humans are at risk of nuclear mass extinction events, the whole practice is meaningless because they will be at risk of that everywhere. So in order to make any of it meaningful, we also have to convince all people currently in existence, and all people in future existence, to give up nuclear weapons at least until we encounter other, hostile, intelligent life. Good luck with that.
     
    Right now, the issue is money and focus. Those with enough money are not focused enough to get there. Musk could maybe get there, but he's been having some serious personal issues lately that are gravely affecting the functioning of his businesses. Bezos claims to be trying to get orbital ferry flights, but he lacks enough focus to get there as well. There is a third company, Space Adventures, which claims to be offering orbital spacewalk flights, ISS visits, and circumlunar flights. Their current plans are based on corrupt Russian government contacts, and to date, they have sold three seats, but failed to make a single flight. They are quoting $150,000,000 USD for a circumlunar flight, but this is no where near enough money to actually get a human to lunar orbit. During the Apollo age, it's estimated that lunar excursions cost over a million dollars a minute, and that was in 1970's money. At our current state, non state actors conducting space flights with the possibility for any ill effects other than more orbital garbage is a non-issue.
     
     
     
    The final point is that, for the reasons I've listed above, none of that is currently a meaningful issue. Besides that, when it becomes a meaningful issue, we will need to solve it lazily. Meaning, there are too many things that we do not know to develop some sort of master plan about how to spread human life through the universe. We are simply not advanced enough to even reason about these issues in meaningful ways yet.
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to GoldenLag in GPU that will run 4-6 Monitors and be modern enough to run Games?   
    me neither actually, but apperantly its a thing. 
     
    so sadly i dont have any details for you
     
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PB8FB4G/ref=as_li_ss_tl?creativeASIN=B00PB8FB4G&linkCode=w61&imprToken=EAB44bcVTXntXPnzLjafzw&slotNum=14&tag=mmcct-20
     
    other than that this is a thing. 
    windows can select a primary rendering (high performance) GPU, as such you should be fine running some cheap GPU together with a newer one. 
     
    there are also expencive dedicated display GPUs
     
    https://pcpartpicker.com/product/8yvRsY/visiontek-video-card-900614
     
    like these things, that do 6 displays at once. in the end, id probably just get something low end to pair next to the main GPU. 
     
    kinda sad that 6 monitor support is seen as a enterprise feature. 
  4. Funny
    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from Slayerking92 in When will we Start sending probes barring life to other worlds?   
    I understand that we need to wait for our scientists around the world to come to a conclusion but that's my issue. I don’t believe that will ever happen at some point we will have searched so many stars that it will take centuries to go to more and find out if it has life. So at what point do we just give up and say well we searched within a radius of 1 million miles, 1 light year, 100 light years, a million, or maybe a trillion light years wide.

    At what point do we say enough is enough we need to start seeding life. When we are about to go extinct would that be the right time? Then you might ask are we in a stable rational mindset at that point. Won’t we be clouded by the fact we are going extinct for the last time on this world, who knows? 
     
    Perhaps we’ll send out seed probes when someone on the planet can do so. Once we become a space faring species whats stopping some moron, terrorist, bad guy, or what have you to say fuck you i’m gonna do it anyway. With a billion humans that's VERY LIKELY with well over 10-12 billion at this time I’m guaranteeing it’ll happen. What then how do we stop that do we limit space access for those on the surface and those in space? Do only scientists and VETTED personal get the chance to send stuff up. If so how do we police that? To many questions to go on about but you get my point.
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from Beef Boss in When will we Start sending probes barring life to other worlds?   
    I understand that we need to wait for our scientists around the world to come to a conclusion but that's my issue. I don’t believe that will ever happen at some point we will have searched so many stars that it will take centuries to go to more and find out if it has life. So at what point do we just give up and say well we searched within a radius of 1 million miles, 1 light year, 100 light years, a million, or maybe a trillion light years wide.

    At what point do we say enough is enough we need to start seeding life. When we are about to go extinct would that be the right time? Then you might ask are we in a stable rational mindset at that point. Won’t we be clouded by the fact we are going extinct for the last time on this world, who knows? 
     
    Perhaps we’ll send out seed probes when someone on the planet can do so. Once we become a space faring species whats stopping some moron, terrorist, bad guy, or what have you to say fuck you i’m gonna do it anyway. With a billion humans that's VERY LIKELY with well over 10-12 billion at this time I’m guaranteeing it’ll happen. What then how do we stop that do we limit space access for those on the surface and those in space? Do only scientists and VETTED personal get the chance to send stuff up. If so how do we police that? To many questions to go on about but you get my point.
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to boggy77 in GPU that will run 4-6 Monitors and be modern enough to run Games?   
    these are the only with 6 (or more outputs)
     
    https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#H=3&sort=price&page=1&O=3,4
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from Bombastinator in HWmonitor pro: worth it?   
    These are the pricings.

    The pro version is free its just u have to register your license to get updates and unlimited remote connections.

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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from Ben17 in My computer can run everything but minecraft!!!   
    I'm guessing its an issue with a corrupted file when u downloaded it. That or try to play with the settings in video to see if its fixed by lowering render distance.
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from YellowJersey in Recommend me dudes' underwear!   
    U could just get long boxers (aka length of briefs) then sow the thigh parts tight and your all set.
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to VioDuskar in I can't get rid of two folders on a SSD I formated??   
    that was a low-key joke. i was telling you to simply hide the folders and pretend they weren't there. 
     
    i've got to get some sleep. i may think about it tomorrow. 
  11. Funny
    Magnetar_Byte reacted to vanished in Windows update   
    Well nothing else on the system will move your files around without asking
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from Constantin in Windows update   
    we can go on tangents calm down bud.
     
    And no I haven't had issues most reviews say its safe to update to. If your worried then wait a month longer then you'll know for sure. But I did already if u care.
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from VioDuskar in I can't get rid of two folders on a SSD I formated??   
    Where the fuck did u find all this info first off?? previous post i made huh...
    And its a program that I like much better then windows shit disk management sorry.
    U should check it out, its not bad its free and has some powerful tools for drives that very few free programs have anymore.
    yes the new one is E which was the old Sata ssds letter.
    Ya its one way down the list
    Ya ik its better. But for me I don't mind using it. I like the older windows compatibility, stabler OS boots, plus my drives are all 1tb and under. My HDD's are of course using GPT tho since there well above 2tbs in some cases.
     
    I suppose your right. But manually doing all that would take quite a bit when I'd get no advantage for doing so. Also I wanted to figure out what the hell the second reserved file was when I finally got around to installing my new Main drive. So I'm happy I kill two birds with one stone essentially. 
     
     
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to VioDuskar in I can't get rid of two folders on a SSD I formated??   
    lol, that trick is some old VooDoo magic from Windows 98/XP 
     
    so the Old SSD now has a new drive letter and when you delete the Programs/Download folders they still pop up?
    how fast do the folders get restored? immediately after reboot?
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from amdorintel in Appeal of devices like Alexa?   
    Thats like saying I'm safe cause I have a bulletproof vest on. But your using it to defend against a tank round....
    Your logic is truly undeniable. ?
  16. Funny
    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from amdorintel in Appeal of devices like Alexa?   
    So take the advice and stop being put on lists cause "YOU THINK" your protecting your privacy. U never were your just putting a target on you saying hey I have something to hide. The best thing u can do is try your best to blend into the pack if u want any real privacy.
  17. Funny
    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from amdorintel in Appeal of devices like Alexa?   
    So take the advice and stop being put on lists cause "YOU THINK" your protecting your privacy. U never were your just putting a target on you saying hey I have something to hide. The best thing u can do is try your best to blend into the pack if u want any real privacy...
  18. Funny
    Magnetar_Byte reacted to amdorintel in Appeal of devices like Alexa?   
    - gathering personal information
    - selling that personal information
    - making and playing playlists
    - asking alexa how old it is
     
     
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to Polyvalent in Afterburner's curve wont apply after closing the program   
    After using afterburner for years, I know that if you close it instead of minimizing it, it turns off everything you applied.  No idea why.
     
    The custom fan curve also breaks my 5700's GPU drivers and causes noticeable flickering.  Also no idea why.
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from kirashi in Where oh where do u go to actually set up a raid with Drives??   
    Sorry I've been trying to figure this out for quite some time now and seeing my 8tb drives just sitting on a desk UNUSED because I STILL can't get enough help to figure this out is I guess pissing me off. 
     
    Updates:
    1st
    So the storage spaces problem was that I had the drives allocated so it wasn't working. I wiped them and left them unallocated they now work to pool, well they create the pool and let me change the settings of it so thats a start. I then realized I couldn't do the 3 parity fake raid 6 windows offers because its raid 10 and I don't have another 5th drive to add. I have t sets of 4 drives and I'm not breaking that up. 
     
    2nd
    SO I'm now thinking freeNAS is the way to go. But I'm still hesitant. Reason being is that i don't want a networked attached storage, I'm about to leave for college. So i want the storage raid pool to be able to be just unplugged stuck in a corned and get turned on when I need to throw data onto the archive. 
     
    Is that possible and by possible I mean will it work., not be some janky shit that freeNAS isn't meant to be used for?
     
    3rd
    since I plan to not have them networked attached as of yet since I still have to go through school so I can get to the stable life part so I can then create a proper network for my place. So is it possible to just set up the array on my current main pc and then just plug in the array and sign when I need to drop data on it?? or does the thing seriously need to be on all the time? 
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to dalekphalm in Where oh where do u go to actually set up a raid with Drives??   
    No offense, but you need to tone that down if you want people to help instead of just getting frustrated.
     
    Look - I get it. This can get complicated and frustrating really easily. But we want to help you. But sometimes there isn't just some magical answer that will just solve the problem.
    He's giving you usable advice - if using PowerShell to send that command is too much, then perhaps Storage Spaces isn't the right solution. That's okay, but that doesn't make it a bad solution. Storage Spaces is definitely not for beginners, since troubleshooting almost certainly requires some basic PowerShell knowledge and usage.
     
    The drives showing up in Disk Management is useful information, but ultimately doesn't tell you much.
    I'd suggest you start with a Storage Spaces guide, and also read up on the different PowerShell commands for it.
     
    Example:
    get-physicaldisk Is a PowerShell command that will return all available physical disks for storage spaces. If it doesn't show up here, it won't work inside your array (and that can help us identify why it won't work, and how we might fix it).
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/get-physicaldisk?view=win10-ps
     
    If you find this to be too involved - that's cool. Let's find a different solution more suited to you. Do you need to run Windows specifically? You mentioned FreeNAS in the OP, so I assume Windows is not mandatory.
     
    If that's the case, FreeNAS might be a better option, because it's a bit more straight forward, due to the WebUI nature of setting on a ZFS RAIDZ2 (which would be the "RAID6" you mention in the OP).
     
    Note: FreeNAS can be a bit weird with permissions sometimes, but usually it's fine once you setup a SMB Share (you set permissions from the client computer, not from the FreeNAS GUI).
     
    Here's a straight forward 'walk you through every step' guide for FreeNAS to get you started:
    https://www.familybrown.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=fester:intro
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from driftz240 in Radeon Settings Won't Open   
    https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html 
     
    Download this Program Boot into safe mode Run the program (it will delete all traces of the drives) Then download a fresh copy of the automatic driver search tool AMD has and run it. This has worked for me in the past, no clue why this happens sometimes. But it does and this seems to fix it for me every time.
    Good luck.
     
     
  23. Funny
    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from WkdPaul in [Canada] [Amazon] For Prime Members - Get $15 Amazon credit for installing the Amazon Photo app   
    ? How dare thy not also givith this to us Americans. Dou shall pay for such betrayal...
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    Magnetar_Byte got a reaction from Corsair Nick in best 16gb memory to choose   
    Go with the Corsair RGB Pro 3200 kit (if u want good RGB)
    or
    Go with the Corsair LPX Vengeance 3200 kit. (if u want no RGB)
     
    Simple and easy.
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    Magnetar_Byte reacted to ToxicVoid in buying windows 10   
    Ok, cool, ill keep that in mind!
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