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New comment by gora_mohanty in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

gora_mohanty — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:49:47 +0000

> If my "g-protein" actually your "g-protein"? Is my visual cortex firmware your visual cortex firmware?

That path leads down to solipsism which is not very intersting

New comment by gora_mohanty in "The staff ate it later"

gora_mohanty — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:37:28 +0000

I wholly support this logic, and want it extended to humans: Soylent Green will be the next food craze

New comment by gora_mohanty in "Fintech dystopia"

gora_mohanty — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:52:00 +0000

Doesn't that exist already? Mobile payment gateways are available in many countries already. India's UPI, for example,had 18+ billion transactions in June 2025, and is entirely free. Yes, the government, and probably financial institutions, do track the transactions

New comment by gora_mohanty in "My Family and the Flood"

gora_mohanty — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:13:20 +0000

After the 1999 super cyclone in Orissa, and the tsunami in 2004, the Indian government put together a comprehensive disaster management programme involving better weather satellites, forecasting, early warning systems, and disaster response plans including evacuation strategies with food and shelter for evacuees. The effort spans local, state, and central governments, as well as para-military forces that are deployed in an emergency. India also provides warnings to other nations, like Bangladesh, and the programme has been supported through major political changes.

The results are plain to see, and in my opinion at least, put much more expensive US responses to shame. So much for a democratic government being unable to plan.

New comment by gora_mohanty in "My Family and the Flood"

gora_mohanty — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 05:36:36 +0000

The story was powerfully honest, but I think it also concludes that love is as powerful as death. Death will come for all of us, and instead of trying to fight against it, it might make sense to try and understand what it is, and what it also brings. If we fear death so much, it is often because that fear has stopped us from truly living while we are still alive.

A wonderful novella in this context. Hard science fiction in one respect, with correct physics, but also literature in my opinion: https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reading/Ch...

New comment by gora_mohanty in "Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System"

gora_mohanty — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 05:47:05 +0000

We would need to detect it in time, have an interceptor fast enough to rendezvous with it, and also with enough payload to nudge it off course. Seems quite difficult with current technology

New comment by gora_mohanty in "Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?"

gora_mohanty — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:31:55 +0000

People keep saying "half the runway", "more than half the runway" in this thread. The linked article has a large graphic saying the plane touched down about a third of the way down the runway.

New comment by gora_mohanty in "Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]"

gora_mohanty — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 05:21:52 +0000

That might still be OK if that path literally should never happen in normal operation, but us used, e.g., to handle an error, or at least log it, if the impossible happens because the software is deployed in some unexpected configuration