Graham

Yes, if you think "extraction of resources" is inherently bad, then you think life itself is bad. If you think resource extraction for personal gain is something that only happens under "capitalism" or "imperialism," then life itself is capitalist and imperialist.

@Ruukasu97 @AvantelWulf @HMBohemond And you just adapt. All buildings in California are built for earthquakes. Everyone in tornado country has a storm shelter.

@Ruukasu97 @AvantelWulf @HMBohemond Because we have tornadoes in the Midwest, earthquakes in California, hurricanes in the South, blizzards in the Northeast and desert in the Southwest (also volcanoes in the Northwest but they don’t erupt very often). Almost all of North America is “an area that can kill you.”

Sorry but your poorly ventilated stone houses wouldn't survive a storm that can turn planks of wood into armor piercing projectiles either.

youtube.com/watch?v=LvRver… This is part of the reason why this mission is necessary. When this remains the mainstream opinion, we will never become a multiplanetary civilization. True. There are risks. Everything comes with risks. Instead of holding back, we are proactively looking for solutions to mitigate those risks. This is how progress is made. I feel a bit sad when people claim that a crewed flyby has little to no scientific value. They fail to understand that the science of human spaceflight is, in large part, medical science. Despite years of ISS operations, there are still many gaps in our understanding of the impact of spaceflight on the human body. Many of the studies we carried out on fram2 were medical studies. Even though the mission was short, I carefully chose them to help us better understand and prepare for future long-duration deep-space flights. We will do the same on our journey to Mars. A precursor mission before committing to a landing will deepen our knowledge and help answer long-standing questions that ground experiments like Mars-500 could never answer. Doraemon only exists in manga. The Anywhere Door does not belong to our physical world. A nuclear engine will not solve every problem. In the end, we still have to spend months, if not years, in deep space to reach another planet or asteroid. This is orbital mechanics. When you recognize that life is short, the universe is vast, and that making life multiplanetary is inevitable and urgent, the only meaningful answer is: Work. 💪

@jabe8 @Robotbeat Test it a bunch of times before you send people.

@Robotbeat 8 month span between raptor relights is my worry lol

This guy would not make it.

The near impossible is becoming possible. We are building toward a sustained human presence at the lunar South Pole. It begins with Phase 1: CLPS landers and LTV rovers testing the “science of survival” on the lunar surface before heavy HLS cargo landers deliver the mass and infrastructure needed for an enduring presence. We are building the Moon Base for all we will learn, the innovation that will improve life on Earth, the inspiration for the next generation of explorers, and to master the skills needed for where we will inevitably go next...Mars. The Golden Age of lunar exploration has begun.

@LT0771 @Truthful_ast In those people's minds, Artemis 2 was "glorious NASA" dunking on "evil billionaires," so it'll create quite some cognitive dissonance for them when all later crewed Artemis missions involve giant vehicles from SpaceX and/or Blue Origin.

@Truthful_ast I still have no clue whats going on

The world isn’t ready for the Artemis era

@conspiracyslyr @ASHSPACEE Based on Ship 39's performance, SpaceX will almost certainly be putting Starships into LEO next year, so I think the only way they don't have an HLS for Artemis III is if they don't really try (I agree the silence is bizarre).

@ASHSPACEE Unless they're very good at hiding it, I doubt it'll be ready next year

Artemis III and Beyond: Progress and Milestones

Lunar Permanence is only possible with recurring access to the Moon, and it starts this year. Proud to support @NASAMoonBase at the lunar South Pole with our Blue Moon MK1 vehicles delivering high-cadence, low-cost access—MK1-101 Endurance (Moon Base 1), followed by MK1-102 VIPER, and two additional MK1 missions supporting Lunar Terrain Vehicles (LTVs).

Can't wait!

Starcloud is excited to announce that we will integrate 50 @SpaceX @Starlink Mini Laser terminals across 25+ satellites.  Each of the @Starcloud_ satellites will carry two Starlink Mini Laser terminals, and the first hardware is expected on orbit within one year. Starlink Mini Laser terminals, the same laser crosslink technology that SpaceX developed for its Starlink constellation, provide up to 25 Gbps of continuous intersatellite connectivity at distances up to 4,000 km and are capable of higher link speeds at shorter distances. The terminals enable direct optical links between Starcloud satellites and the Starlink constellation using laser light, eliminating the need for Starcloud to send data directly through bandwidth-constrained ground stations.

The next era of Moon exploration has begun! We're proud to announce a $75 million subcontract from @NASAJPL to deliver four drones above the Moon's south pole with our Elytra orbiter. In support of @NASA's MoonFall mission and larger Moon Base initiative, these drones will help map safe landing spots and resources for future Artemis missions. Read more here: fireflyspace.com/news/firefly-a…

Just in - NASA selects Astrolab and Lunar Outpost as the companies to build the Artemis lunar terrain vehicles that astronauts will drive on the Moon's surface. The vehicles can carry up to 2 astronauts, travel up to 200km, 10km/hr, and have crewed & autonomous capabilities.

@rexthundercock A technological species would need *some* way to manipulate matter. It wouldn't have to look like our hands, but I'm not sure how you'd get advanced tech without some kind of tool-using ability. But fire is the really difficult thing to do without.

@Graham_117 Thinking in the order of thumbs or tools makes a lot of assumptions even, we are constrained heavily by our perspective as human beings to the point imagining something truly alien is difficult

@rexthundercock I agree that intelligent life is likely extraordinarily rare, but also, intelligence by itself is not enough for the technology development needed to get to radio, let alone interstellar travel. You also probably need fire, opposable thumbs, tool use, etc.

@Mr_BenPrime Travel to the nearest stars doesn't even need to take longer than a human lifespan (even assuming no life extension/hybernation, which IMO we will plausibly have by that time). Highly recommend this book to anyone curious about interstellar travel.

"Interstellar travel is impossible." No. What you actually mean is it takes too long for a human lifespan. That's all. That has no bearing on the feasibility of getting assets/payload to another star system which imo is an entirely different conversation and entirely possible.

@chase_da_birdie @note61763 @Truthful_ast Fusion used to be perpetually 30 years away, now it's perpetually 5-10 years away. It's getting closer. Anyway, fusion is not the only interstellar propulsion method. I'd recommend this book if you haven't read it.

@note61763 @Graham_117 @Truthful_ast sure, in the works as equations on a whiteboard. not in our lifetimes, though i'd be happy to be proven wrong in this case i suppose, fusion is cool shit, both for enegery and propulsion, though its perpetually 10 years away lol

How are people this incompetent? apparently to them it takes millions or years to reach Alpha Centauri???

@chase_da_birdie @note61763 @Truthful_ast Why do old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit?

@note61763 @Graham_117 @Truthful_ast why would i care if i don't live to see it

@GIshayu @ZenkaiGoose I'm playing campaign

@ZenkaiGoose What are these 4000 people playing? Whenever I search for an online match on Halo MCC I get nothing.

just bring back classic halo man

New factory for the next 10x increase is coming online soon!

@rexthundercock Given that life on Earth started in the ocean, the galaxy could be full of ocean planets with intelligent life ("galaxy of dolphins") and we'd never know.