If life was not there, I would wager that life is exceedingly rare in our universe.

Saturn's moons are much more likely to spread any contamination due to the presence of liquids. Liquid water on Enceldus and hydrocarbon lakes on Titan.

I assume you're just guessing, right? We already landed something on Titan! And small patches of liquid brine exists on Mars; obviously unlikely, but so is Cassini drilling through 5 miles of ice to reach to liquid water water inside Enceladus.

Financial companies are also competing for tech talent. Anything that drives away top talent from tech companies is a win for financial ones.

Not a CEO, but I am currently dealing with a very vindictive and petty VP. Absolutely no empathy or thought for others. Brings similar people on board her team and they run amock making the lives of their subordinates or others that deal with them miserable. The lower end managers are blatantly self centered, but the higher up you go, the shit just gets more polish. Capital One has been quite the nightmare.

Isnt't always like this?

Do you have a separate link or confact for HNers?

Mexico could capitalize on this as well. Guadalajara is a mini tech hub.

I visited Guadalajara for a few days and it was great! People were extremely friendly and tolerant of my 100 word spanish vocabulary. Housing and living is very reasonable, food is quite cheap, the weather is mild and the city is lively, if a bit spread out. I didn't feel more unsafe than I did in Istanbul. I didn't get a chance to see the tech stuff but there were a bunch of companies and also a reasonably lively meetup scene too!

R's data analysis libraries are still far ahead of Python. Dplyr, Shiny, etc. So much stuff is still in built in R.

Places where I still use R is its easy to use statistical functions, handling large amounts of missing data, etc.

>commodiously embeds into Business Intelligence which creates an interurban transcendence

Wow.

A better option would be to employ more people in the sciences. There is still a lot to be discovered and labs I have worked in have a range of work to be done from the low skilled cleaning glassware to high skilled design of experiments.

Most people are unable to contribute to human scientific development in any meaningful capacity.

The exception might be repetitive tasks that are already being automated, like drug testing.

I have no idea how all these trends are going to play out, at least during the transient regime we are currently experiencing.

I am curious why we don't focus more efforts on Titan, which already has a thick nitrogen atmosphere.

It's very far away from the Sun.

Plus Jupiter has a pretty intense magnetosphere that Titan transits. Jovian space has a lot of self generated radiation that makes it less than hospitable.

Edit: Titan is a moon of Saturn. Oops.

Pretty sure everywhere but earth is going to be extremely inhospitable

And us?

Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Thanks to the inverse square law, it gets 3.7% of the sunlight that Earth does. You won't be growing any plants there, and solar electric is going to be terrible.

Saturn, which Titan orbits, is 9.6 times farther, and receives 1% of the sunlight that Earth receives.

Mars is much better at 1.5 times farther, and receiving 44% of the sunlight that Earth does.

Also, Titan averages -179C compared to Mars' range from -125C up to 20C.

Go other way to Mercury and one has virtually limitless energy. The polar craters contain ice and a thermal reservoir.

Still very far away from the Sun, but closer.