I don't think many realize the seriousness of the situation. If the asteroid is just a rock, nothing happens, everything is just fine, we can continue to be the apex predator of Sol system.

But if anybody is wrong and oumuamua was in fact an alien device looking for us (intelligent life), almost certainly it has found us. What happens next is entirely out of human hands, unless we can realize that event.

Maybe is nothing more than some kind of probe or long range satellite, but it could be a scout ship, or an early warning sensor, and we're just in course to meet the rest of the hardware from where oumuamua came from.

Is really rational just plainly deny the chance of that rock being pure luck of not having found a big fleet of some interestellar things and having to figure out if they are friendly or not as they approach the planet?

Probably the space force and the whole stuff many countries are sending to all the solar system since 2018 are just a coincidence, or may be other people is also worried about what happens next if oumuamua was not just a weird rock.

> What happens next is entirely out of human hands, unless we can realize that event.

We would not have been able to detect this object two decades ago. So the "event" is that our observation capabilities have grown past some threshold, not that anything has changed in our solar system. Whether rocks or alien probes, these types of objects must always have been passing through our solar system with some regularity. We'll get a a chance to study others soon enough.

Edit: this video by Scott Manley helps to get a sense of how our ability to detect asteroids has grown over time: https://youtu.be/BKKg4lZ_o-Y

Not quite so, Somebody, ultimately, will define the agenda.

Maybe now is an algorithm, some person censoring news or posts for fcbk, but if you involve the government, any government, they will define the agenda.

So, the most you can get from that deal is to choose who would you want to be your master.

With algorithms at least we - still - have the out of sight factor, some things the algo doesn't "see" or "understand" (quite few probably), but if involve governments, specially the american government, with thousands and thousands of interests, some of them even confronted; you could end with some franken-facebook promoting several hundred of agendas from who-god-knows.

I have no solutions, but I can tell you, there are problems ahead.

So, I went down the link, found a big photo, with really small fonts over it, and maybe potencially interesting content,

But could not read it, because is mostly very light gray fonts over a clear white bright background.

I would suggest to double-check UX

Thanks for the feedback, I will get this updated so it's more legible.

So I see lots of comments about certain defaults or options some people would like to see in the blank, not customized KDE.

But here's the thing, many defaults are just choices made by some dev, designer.

In KDE many options have nothing to do with the MacOS or Gnome defaults, even more, the defaults have been choosed specifically to avoid a known behavior or default in MacOS or Gnome

Luckily for everyone, KDE has so many customization options that you can make it work like almost any GUI you know, the popular one is of course MacOS aesthetics, but some guys like to configure it to behave just like Windows 10.

You could also create your own kind of GUI, nothing like any other GUI available.

The lesson is, in KDE most defaults can be changed, and that's mostly why it still exists as a software project probably.

I most probably had covid. Had most of the mild sympthoms, but was completely unique for me was the first day when I stopeed feeling hunger.

No feeling of hunger at all, but smell and taste are allright (never failed). I actually have hunger, I can feel hear the noise in my stomach after some hour of having eating very little.

But still, I still don't feel any hunger whatsoever, this was going on for the last 10 days.

At some point this morning I put a lot of salt to the food, see if somehow I'm just remembering the taste, but even if I don't look what I'm eating, some portions had salty taste.

I'm mostly recovered now, and bit weak (tried to do a little run in the garden, and I couldn't run more than a few meters without getting a cough and feeling without air), even given that I didn't had much of trouble with breathing during the maybe 4 days with 2 hours per day of low fever.

But still, the lack of hunger is the weirdest thing I ever experienced.

As far as we know, quasars could be fully artificial, and around them you could find some of our future friends.

and those things would be pretty outdated - ancient - technology by time we spotted them.

we could have had already some encounters, maybe some current life-forms in Earth were actually alien-forms initially (somehow octopuses comes to mind).

Some people on the net says that the current coronavirus situation could be an alien-species. I know it is FAR FAR from anything related to what we already know about the virus.

But it gives an idea about what could have looked an encounter with a new alien-patogen which just landed on Earth at some point at history and got to survive and thrive in the local ecosystem.

Indeed, if alien species are so environmental constrained, the competition to thrive could be almost non-existant, and Terran life could have the winning hand in that case.

We should be careful about what we send to Mars. Something like candidas aureous could just wipe out the life on the planet.

This.

we know quite a lot about this, most life-forms on Earth almost continously try to kill humans or at least to mine its biological resources for its use.