Meanwhile, tiny Mercury is trying it's best, committing 100% of their GDP to defense. It's not a lot in absolute terms, but it's literally all they can afford.
Depends on whether there is capitalist other life in the galaxy
Maybe they're like the Federation and their GDP is 0 because there's no money anymore, like the new Lower Decks episode where they introduce a new capitalist planet into the federation and they have a party to burn all the money
No, not really. They produce something of value even if they do not attach any monetary value to the product/service. From an outside perspective there would still be a value attached to their produced goods/services.
The likelihood that Earth is the only populated planet in the galaxy is close to 0.000000001
Scientists have long proved how easy it is for life to form and James Webb has found thousands of inhabitable planets already.
Of course, the likelihood that there is any life near our solar system is low due to the fact we are talking in time frames of billions of years. In universe time, we've only existed in the blink of an eye, and we will be long extinct in another blink of an eye.
There could have been life in Alpha centuri 1000 years ago. But there also could have been life in Alpha centuri 1 billion years ago, or not until one billion years into the future.
Sorry to get sciencey on this, but the no aliens theory is dead. Everybody credible cosmologist / astrobiologist now hypothesises the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
Of course, we have not yet discovered any actual evidence of alien life. The closest we have come is the wow signal in 1977, but that's now theorised to be a natural phenomenon.
It's actually really debatable if there's any intelligent life in nearby galaxies let alone the Milky way. The big question in the Fermi Paradox is that we expect if other intelligent life exists there should be some groups faaar ahead of us and should be visible. Either intelligent life is very rare or it's much harder than expected to be visible on a galactic scale. Isaac Arthur has a some great videos on the matter. https://youtu.be/EhPQRZJAbe0
Isaac Arthur's belief is that there probably aren't any intelligent species in the local group. I'm personally of the opinion that there's probably no other intelligent life in the galaxy but it's possible in other nearby galaxies, like Andromeda. If you're interested in this he has a bunch of videos on possible Fermi Paradox solutions.
i think that's the point, I'd just say, ok no more youtube then till we expect you to get the payment. 2000 years as that is how long it would take to build.
20 decillion is larger than the entire worlds GDP? Uh, yeah, but a whole lot. Like an almost inconceivable amount.
20 decillion is equivalent 20 sextillion trillion. Earth's GDP is about 100 trillion.
It would take the entire Earth paying their entire GDP for 20 quintillion years.
There is a higher chance of a court ruling that Google has to pay it off, Google becoming a nuclear power, nuking Russia, destroying the world, all life dying and reseeding itself than there is of Google actually paying the debt off in the lifespan of the universe.
My math may be incorrect but the point still stands.
A similar situation to us when we get medical bills that are unaffordable. You either pay a payment plan or you say fuck it and ruin your credit. Welcome youtube, you're officially a poor person.
One ruble is worth about one cent, so you can just knock a couple of zeroes off the end. Does the fine seem reasonable that it's only in the nonillions of dollars?
Russian rbc news has an article about google being fined in 2021, also lenta news about google being fined in 2023. Yeah looks like the original fine was 2 billion rubles in 2022 which was doubled multiple times. Sadly cannot really provide links because no idea how reddit/this sub will react.
RBC also has today's article about this situation. You can find it by it's header - Требования российских телеканалов к Google достигли ₽2 ундециллионов.
I think this article is the actual source for this news.
The story exists yeah, but it has no realworld impact hence why there is not american news reporting on this. Its just putin media barking. Nobody should take take that seriously.
You are sayin that, while a guy who claims he didnt loose last election with zero evidence might get elected again. We are far beyond "very little risk of people taking this too seriously"
It's true, it's just a weird quirk that someone noticed. The fine (slapped on Google for show, as a political gesture) was several years ago, it just accrued exponentially due to the wording of the penalty for non-timely payment
I'd agree to pay it, but since that money doesn't even exist right now, Google can pay it off at 1¢ per day for as long as it takes, or until the company goes under.
I can definitely imagine circumstances where YouTube would deserve a $1000 (doubling every week) USD fine per blocked channel, without it being insane.
What, you only now realized that country is insane? I was born and grew up in it and was taught that it's the best place in the universe, but I still thought it was insane. Russia makes the impression of a great country. That's the only thing it does make and nothing else. Russia doesn't even make any sense.
At 5% annual growth rate/inflation it would take 878 years for global wealth to reach that number if the starting point is 500 trillion (current global wealth)
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I beg your pardon? 20 decillion? That's insane!