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  • The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology.

    This has nothing to do with smart glasses, and everything to do with surveillance capitalism. You could do the same thing with a smartphone, or any camera + computer. All this does is highlight how everyones most sensitive data has been aggregated by numerous corporations and is available to anyone who will pay for it. There was a time when Capitalism used to equate itself as the “free” and privacy preserving antithesis to Soviet style communist surveillance, yet no KGB agent ever had access to a system with 1/100th the surveillance capabilities that 21st century capitalism now sells freely for profit. If you need proof, a couple of college students were able to create every stalking victims worst nightmare.















  • Black holes don’t swallow everything around them for the same reason that the sun hasn’t swallowed all the planets.

    I wasn’t implying this. I was referring to how they would gradually increase in mass as they absorb particles that came close enough — the same way that all other matter accumulates.

    Gravitational capture usually involves multiple objects, because the trajectory has to get nudged for a collision to happen.

    What about the countless proton sized blackholes and matter dispersed between them? Wouldn’t they all interact with each other? How come the visible matter accumulated but the black holes did not? Are they so small that they’re all around us but too small to interact with non-primordial black holes?

    A gaseous body collects mass at a faster rate than a black hole with the same mass

    Because the gas/mass is distributed over a larger area? As in, gas has a larger gravitational “dragnet”, relative to its mass?