High frequency radio is still below the visible part of the spectrum, gamma is waaay above it.

Have you lived on the moon?

That’s the best you’ve got? “lmao”

The Chinese government is an authoritarian shitshow. This is objective fact.

Before you even try it, don’t “what about” and point to another authoritarian shithole like that makes China’s continuing abuses ok. It’s not, and there is no defending it. To attempt to do so is excusing it, and merely shows your ignorance and/or complicity.

Who do you think is pulling his strings? The people who will be left in charge when the useful idiot isn’t useful anymore, the fascists. Trump is just the mouthpiece, the current face, he’s not the one in charge, he just thinks he is.

This is the great filter.

Why isn’t there detectable life out there? They all do the same thing we’re doing. Undone by greed.

And consumed the power output of a medium country to do it.

Yeah, great job! 👍

About as long as is possible with the doors welded shut from outside, I guess.

The point was, that isn’t possible. If everyone is too poor to consume, their system stops, and they aren’t rich anymore.

Long term, the snake is eating it’s own tail. What happens when it gets to it’s own head? It chokes to death (and scavengers pick over the corpse).

Either they’re too stupid to know what happens at the end, or they’re stupid enough to think they can jump off the ride with the loot before it crashes.

In neither scenario would I want to be living that close to the coming chaos.

Selling to who?

If the masses are penniless serfs, who is going to buy the services provided? One of the other 8 billionaires who own the country?

They really haven’t considered the longer term here. Ultimately, they’ll be kings of a worthless backward shitheap, despised and shunned by the international community, their best and most promising exfiltrated to the rest of the world then fenced off to rot into obscurity.

Like North Korea, more or less.