The Management posted:

mars permanent habitation is pointless and a terrible idea. there is almost no value to being on mars. there’s no current path to a self-sustaining colony, which means relying on supplies from earth for the foreseeable future.

mars can be colonized when we can send robots that will essentially bootstrap a self sustaining human habitat. and by bootstrap I mean:

build a solar power plant
build plants and reactors to extract useful input materials from the atmosphere and soil.
build factories to produce various polymers, graphene products, etc
build a refinery that can extract metals and other elements/minerals from the soil
build a foundry that can create high quality alloys
build a machine shop that can form the metals and other inputs into precision parts.
build a cement factory and gather aggregate.
build a silicon fab and other computing technology component manufacturing capability.
…
assemble more robots and machines and batteries and lubricants and iterate on the above at larger scale and improved capability. repair and replace damaged equipment with manufactured components.
…
build factory to liquify polar ice and a conduit to get it to the colony site.
build huge greenhouses filled with refined soil, oxygen extracted from the water, compressed co2 from the atmosphere, water, and seeds for plants adapted to survive high radiation.
farm to produce food, gather, process, and store.
dig a huge underground living space, reinforced with concrete, atmospheric sealants, and radiation shields.
fill living space with compressed nitrogen extracted from atmosphere and o2 from the greenhouses.
prepare to receive guests


when we have robots that are capable of autonomously doing this then we can colonize mars.

refleks posted:

it means not in our lifetimes...

Shame Boy posted:

of course he picks the revolver that looks the most like a nerf gun

Kazinsal posted:

I am 100% certain that revolver is a prop, that cylinder looks like it's made of prop foam and there are injection molding seams all over it

and he's too loving stupid to figure out how to operate that flintlock behind it

e: upon closer inspection the revolver doesn't even have a trigger. in all aspects of life he's such an utter loving poser

Danger - Octopus! posted:

First thing I thought of when I saw his dorky reddit EDC goon bedside table pic

Trillhouse posted:

https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1597213388681011200?s=46&t=91whiNSXknYjlv1GLJsrgQ

Trillhouse posted:

https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1597213388681011200?s=46&t=91whiNSXknYjlv1GLJsrgQ

Expo70 posted:

https://nitter.net/TechnicallyRon/status/1597181827340701696

FAUXTON posted:

Is that a loving flintlock pistol

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

It's a non-working replica of a flintlock pistol.

The_Franz posted:

https://twitter.com/bestofdyingtwit/status/1597169327534264320

Caffeine free Diet Coke. For manchildren who don’t like water, I guess.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I thought it looked familiar and someone in comments pointed out it's a prop gun from Deus Ex lmao

I'm the square bullets.

univbee posted:

As a manchild who doesn't like water and regularly drinks that garbage, I'm actually surprised he's not super-wired on caffeine and sugar all the time.

Must be different stimulants he takes.

Expo70 posted:

https://nitter.net/TechnicallyRon/status/1597181827340701696

fart simpson posted:

any experts itt, how close are we to being able to build these types of robots? 10 years? 15?

Trillhouse posted:

https://twitter.com/zoeschiffer/status/1597213388681011200?s=46&t=91whiNSXknYjlv1GLJsrgQ

Kazinsal posted:

square cartridges would at least have some kind of real world grounding, in the 70s H&K experimented with a caseless cartridge that was basically a roughly rectangular prism of polymerized nitrocellulose propellant with a bullet inside and a little plastic cap

mind you it didn't work right because 70s tech couldn't stop it from overheating out of battery and blowing up the gun

Kafouille posted:

Weird triangular revolver rounds were in fact a thing, with a very silly name : Trounds



The idea was to make a magazine fed revolver. For some reason.

Kafouille posted:

Weird triangular revolver rounds were in fact a thing, with a very silly name : Trounds



The idea was to make a magazine fed revolver. For some reason.

FAUXTON posted:

probably because they thought the magazine is somehow equal in reliability to a revolver's cylinder, which it ain't, lol

hell this ain't the wackiest poo poo ever thought up for a gun either

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I thought it looked familiar and someone in comments pointed out it's a prop gun from Deus Ex lmao

Zil posted:

Where do gun blades fit in on this wackier poo poo hierarchy?

Kafouille posted:

Weird triangular revolver rounds were in fact a thing, with a very silly name : Trounds



The idea was to make a magazine fed revolver. For some reason.

Zil posted:

Someone made a more updated version of the meme

Chill Monster posted:

If ppl were to go live on Mars their bones would probably turn to porous rods of poo poo because the gravity is 1/3 of what it is on Earth.

Twerk from Home posted:

Lmao musk really is pro-bot now, he's cutting the enforcement tools and routing higher usage metrics

How long until he starts angrily ranting about how stupid advertisers are to not want to reach Twitter's 12 billion users?

quote:

Musk, meanwhile, has sought to personally call chief executives of some brands that have curbed advertising in order to berate them, according to one senior industry figure, leading others to instead reduce their spend to the bare minimum required so as to avoid further confrontation with the billionaire entrepreneur.

Mr. Nice! posted: