@jt13001621 @yamanakanobody This is me, with a 40 mile/45 minute drive to work, across 3 state lines.
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Space enthusiast, Software engineer, CNC wood worker.
Katılım Ocak 2024
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@yamanakanobody Some of us do. I have my daily driver and what used to be my daily driver. It’s 20 years old with 250,000 miles on it. It’s more valuable to me as a backup for me and my kids than what I could sell it for.
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@martianwyrdlord Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. does in "Mayflies". Written back in 1979.
amazon.com/Mayflies-Kevin…
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I've always wondered why the FTL capable civilization wouldn't just make a pitstop to give the slowships a lift.
One of the best versions of this I've read is Galaxy's Edge by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. The generation ships are crewed by the morally bankrupt descendants of our current rancid elites, who bankrupt the world and plunge it into a dark age in the process. A generation later someone figures out FTL and the colonization of the Galaxy commences. They don't tell the people on the generation ships for the simple reason that they hate them. In the intervening centuries, the generation ships incubate a thousand different varieties of cosmic horror that humanity takes to referring to as the Savages, and when the Savages begin arriving at their already inhabited destinations it sparks a Galaxy-spanning war.
Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu
This is the exact plot of several science fiction books. In my favorite, "The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years" from 1940(!), they travel in a generation ship which, as always happens in novels, degenerates into a violent repressive dystopia. When they arrive the humans, who invented hyperdrive a few years after the generation ship left, have therapists ready and a thriving colony. There’s also the related concept of Joe Haldeman’s Forever War, in which the soldiers use relativistic travel to fight the alien foe, so they never get older while the universe does. After thousands of years of this (in which they've only aged a few decades), they find that both the human and the alien enemy have evolved into a gestalt telepathic overmind and have joined together. So the overmind, which is benign, sends the unevolved soldiers to a paradise planet to live out their days.
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@luke_leisher_ @OV__101 Why would confirming life not lead to funding? I would think a discovery that groundbreaking would make even the politicians in Congress send some more $ to study the mars bugs.
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Actually convinced NASA internal policy is to not confirm life so they actually have a shot of getting MSR approved
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@DougEBarr @NJHagens TLDR: Wah! I hate myself. Humanity needs to die because I hate myself.
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Space travel is a metaphor for wandering in the mind of humanity. It's the epitome of our asininity.
an excerpt of rhymed reason:
By Nature’s God LIFE was inspired
To self-create. LIVES were required
With natural activities
To reach to our capacities,
To others, and to Nature’s God,
A life that we could all applaud.
Most LIVES had a creative past
Exclusively; ours didn’t last.
When given birth by “Why am I?”,
Our ‘parents’ feared not knowing why.
Unknowns they’d learned they should avoid.
With shit they tried to fill the void,
Unnatural activity
Diminishing what we could be.
By trying they broke Nature’s rule,
Who searched for “Why?” would be a fool.
Descendants tried to stem their fears
In diverse ways, throughout the years.
In doing so humanity
Defined the word “insanity”.
Results of tries remain unchanged
Despite how they are rearranged.
In vain attempts to fill the void
More of our Life we have destroyed.
Destroying more Life has to be
The Age of Asininity.
Destroying what’s left we could stop
Just by returning to the top.
It seems though we’ll repeat each verse
But every time we’ll make things worse
Until the worst concludes Life’s rhyme
Because we’ve just run out of time.👇more
thelastwhy.ca/poems/2009/7/1…
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Techno-optimists dream of a future where we mine, travel to, and colonize other planets – all in the hopes of bypassing the problems we now face on Earth. But from the perspective of physics and ecology, how feasible is space colonization?
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The stories told about the three planets are so much BS. We are told Mars' atmosphere was worn away over billions of years by the solar wind due to lack of a magnetic field. But Venus, which also lacks a magnetic field, and, being 2x closer, is subjected to 4x the solar wind, somehow hasn't had its atmosphere worn away. Yeeaah. I refuse to push the "I believe " button.
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Things that fascinate me: there must have been a point right around the time the oceans of Earth were first harboring simple life, that there were oceans covering Venus and Mars as well.
Three watery sisters circling a younger sun. One of them would become an almost airless, freeze-dried desert. The other would become a cooked hellscape of sulfur-tinged carbon dioxide, pressurized to a terrestrial water depth of 200 feet.
What circumstances spared the middle world? Was it the orbit? The fact Earth has a large moon? Was it that our planet has just enough volcanic activity for plate tectonics, but never enough to outgas lethal quantities of CO2?
There might be a time in the future when Mars has oceans again. It will probably take thousands of years of harvesting and dropping Kuiper and Oort objects into the atmosphere.
But it's a near certainty Venus will stay like it is until billions of years from now the sun swells up and swallows both it and the Earth. Because there's no obvious way to put all that CO2 back into Venus' crust.
Still, that finite period when the three worlds were truly clement . . . I wonder about it. And try to imagine what it would be like if those two ancient companions to Earth could somehow become now as they were then. What would it change about our space colonization effort? How much more urgent might we be?
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@Cernovich @philthatremains Rights are enforced by force. When Virginians start using force against the traitors who violate their oath of office, they will have rights again.
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@ApoStructura Make them a thousand kilometers across.
You still can't make a meaningful amount of antimatter.
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Reusable rockets will give us cheap access to space which means unlimited energy with solar panels. One use case is AI data-centers.
I’d like to suggest another one: antimatter manufacturing. Build 100km ring accelerators with huge solar arrays.
Make the stars accessible.
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@RealPatSpurlock @HoustonChron @GregAbbott_TX What the heck does "5th Circuit overrule the U.S. Supreme Court" mean? The US Supreme Court is above all of the Circuit courts.
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@GregAbbott_TX has a problem here, when and if Houston, Dallas, and/or Austin decides to take this to Federal Court. Even though SB4 was upheld by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in El Cenizo v. Texas, it was never reconciled against cases like the Supreme Court precedent in Rodriguez v. United States that deal with detention times and immigration in traffic stops. The cities' policies line up with these precedents. If these cities were to sue in Federal Court using these precedents, then ultimately the 5th Circuit would be forced to revisit SB4 and make that reconciliation against Rodriguez. Question being: Would the 5th Circuit be willing to overrule the US Supreme Court to favor Texas' SB4?
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Gov. Greg Abbott is invoking the arrest of an immigrant charged with murder to pressure Houston City Council to reverse a new policy on how local police cooperate with federal immigration agents.
But the governor didn’t explain how the city’s policy could have prevented the crime, and he omitted a key detail: The new policy still allows the Houston Police Department to contact ICE agents. The new policy doesn't prohibit officers from contacting ICE. bit.ly/41I7zRn
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@ToughSf How are you exceeding the speed of light? Also, how are you nor burning Earth to a crisp?
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If you were able to turn the entire Milky Way into a photon thruster, and focused that light onto our Solar System, you'd produce 3.3 x 10^27 N of thrust, enough to accelerate at 1.67 mm/s^2.
The Sun could be sent to Andromeda 2.5 million lightyears away in merely 239k years.
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@NoCRTinSchools @wil_da_beast630 I don't have much sympathy. They voted for all this repeatedly.
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Poor Canada .... they find out they are poorer than all 50 states, their government is methodically killing them via MAID, their property is about to be taken after spending years claiming it wasn't theirs anyways, they have no more churches because they burnt them all down over an urban legend .... and, now they can't even get a real gun.
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Did you also confiscate the guy's parrot and eye-patch?
Toronto Police Service Guns Seized #offthestreets@TPSGunsSeized
#offthestreets this week
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@deltaIV9250 @xdNiBoR There is commercial then there is "commercial" (mercantile rent seeking, bureaucratic lobbying organizations). Replicating a program for the first type while using the second type only increases the cost while reducing the output to near zero or actively harmful.
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Brutal redpill is that commercial crew worked because of SpaceX, not because it was commercial
Brie 🛸🍿☭@BanhmiBrieoche
Trying to copy commercial crews success has really been straight up awful for the US space program. And even the commercial crew didn't even succeed in creating multiple capable crew vehicles for the ISS worst part is NASA is being left with no other choice given its funding
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@VladTheInflator Funny how families of WWII fallen soldiers haven't gotten any assistance but we are now in the 5th generation of "victims" needing assistance.
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@kellowaves @TruthFairy131 "Temporary" because it was made with wood, like my 70+ year old house?
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@TruthFairy131 It was a fair - the structures were temporary and whimsical, not practical or permanent. And Paris is still beautiful.
These"the world was better then" posts are dumb slop.
In 1900, a small scratch could kill you or your child because there no antibiotics!
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Colorized photo of the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
Humanity has regressed.
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@LexImperialis7 @TruthFairy131 Already are: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
They are calling vintage photos and videos "AI slop" to denigrate it.
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@TruthFairy131 Bet they'll soon try to outlaw the posting of old photos and paintings of how the world was on the grounds of "distribution of radical material"
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@scdlcaramia @IterIntellectus So they don't measure reading skills but reading English language. 🙄
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truly blackpilling
i went and checked what it means to read below 6th grade level and this means that ~130 million people cannot work out the correct dose on a children's medicine label, can't read their own pay slip, can't follow the instructions on a consent form before surgery, can't locate basic information in a short newspaper article
the average 6th grader in 1850 was expected to have read the bible and understand shakespeare
progress seems inevitable until you realize it isn't and it takes people of extraordinary abilities to make it happen
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc
About 54% of U.S. adults (ages 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why does nobody talk about this?
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@JoshFishPhoto @DisruptivDecade @NASAOIG @SpaceX @rookisaacman @NASAAdmin Luckily, they already know how to build self-contained space craft. They will only need to determine how to mold it closer to fitting a human body.
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@DisruptivDecade @NASAOIG @SpaceX @rookisaacman @NASAAdmin The crew suits SpaceX uses are a far cry from Eva class suits that are not receiving life support from the craft, imagine a Eva suit as a one man personal spacecraft in terms of complexity, even the suit Issacman used comes nowhere close to what’s needed
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After nearly two decades, NASA's next-generation spacesuits remain incomplete. Today, the Agency continues to face delays and is reliant on Axiom Space to develop both the Artemis lunar suits and updated ISS suits. Read our new report to learn more: go.nasa.gov/4cGjdRT
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@JIMMYBOBBYX @peterrhague Transparent aluminum is known as ALON. Look up aluminum oxynitride. Expensive, but it exists. Surmet Corporation makes it.
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@peterrhague You would need magitek transparent aluminum to make it that cool though.
Otherwise you are stuck with a giant Rendevoux With Rama metal soda can.
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This would be a very embarrassing thing to post if, say, O'Neill himself had published the hoop stress calculations during the initial studies on these things in the 70s and found them to be perfectly feasible.
C. M. Kosemen@cmkosemen
These huge Halo / Ringworld / O'Neill Cylinder / Rama / Elysium habitats techno-bros like to fawn over are technically impossible - no known material has the tensile strength to support them! Best you can get will be a "Kowloon Walled City" in space.
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@peterrhague Kind of awkward when you're trying to fine him for not allowing spying on EU citizens with one hand, while begging him for a ride on his rocket on the other.
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Bit odd they didn’t name the launch provider
European Space Agency@esa
Our Mars rover mission Rosalind Franklin is scheduled to be launched in 2028, with the support of @NASA. It will be the first ever to drill up to two metres below the Red Planet's surface, searching for signs of past or present life on Mars 🔴 go.nasa.gov/4vAIeX1
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@Mr_Bauxite @boneGPT At 1 foot per century, that's the slow route.
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@boneGPT There’s outback land in Australia that’s insanely cheap and probably gonna be way easier to make useful when we have tons of autonomous robots
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