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Potato Salad posted:I'm sorry, is the concept there that you get a free pass to genocide a pre-contact civilization on the basis of your race? Uh…the history of the 15th through 20th centuries would suggest that the answer is “yes”, provided the race is “white”.
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Does Everest contain anything valuable like coal that we could get to by removing the top? Like they do in the USA? As a hardcore capitalist I feel like Everest isn't living up to its possible potential.
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Desert Bus posted:Does Everest contain anything valuable like coal that we could get to by removing the top? Like they do in the USA? As a hardcore capitalist I feel like Everest isn't living up to its possible potential. I think that's where Cobra Commander has his secret lair.
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Got a confession to make, I’m standing on top of a very tall cold mountain summit atm. Not looking like I’ll die today tho
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ethanol posted:Got a confession to make, I’m standing on top of a very tall cold mountain summit atm. Not looking like I’ll die today tho skill issue
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ethanol posted:Got a confession to make, I’m standing on top of a very tall cold mountain summit atm. Not looking like I’ll die today tho any pics or
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ethanol posted:Got a confession to make, I’m standing on top of a very tall cold mountain summit atm. Not looking like I’ll die today tho Well, you tried your best and we can't expect any more than that.
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ethanol posted:Got a confession to make, I’m standing on top of a very tall cold mountain summit atm. Not looking like I’ll die today tho How many copies of Men In Black do you have?
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Even at "only" 18000 feet, if you get lost, you're gonna have a bad time. I'm surprised because they had a guide, who was the 2nd last to be found, there's still a guy out there. (Whose phone was with the guide's body) one of the girls they did rescue might lose limbs because of necrosis from the cold https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-2-climbers-dead-another-missing-pico-de-orizaba/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8a&linkId=332277629
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another news article, this one about Nepalese women crafting stuff from Everest trash (mostly rope, so far): https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/02/25/1233232390/mt-everest-trash-crafts-indigenous-women-nepal
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Zefiel posted:Even at "only" 18000 feet, if you get lost, you're gonna have a bad time. I'm surprised because they had a guide, who was the 2nd last to be found, there's still a guy out there. (Whose phone was with the guide's body) one of the girls they did rescue might lose limbs because of necrosis from the cold Judging by the height the guide was found at it looks like they got lost in the rock maze (not sure how else to describe it) prior to getting to the glacier. A storm rolled in on us and got super hairy so I'm assuming that's possibly what happened.
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I know this thread is about climbing mountains, does climbing far enough to reach the moon and then crashing on it because the management decided to save some money count:quote:"There were certainly things we could've done to test it and actually fire it. They would've been very time-consuming and very costly," Mike Hansen, the company's head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. "So that was a risk as a company that we acknowledged and took that risk". It might be a push button way to climb a mountain, but the button is of no use if at first you disable their hand. Shares of the company are reported to be down by 40%. Comstar fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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I would simply not name something I'd want to arrive smoothly and on time "Odysseus".
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The probe’s son is going to go looking for it in ten years only to discover that it was actually back on Earth already, disguised as a port-a-potty.
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gschmidl posted:I would simply not name something I'd want to arrive smoothly and on time "Odysseus". Yeah so it may be away and out of touch now, but hey in ten years time let's see who's suddenly coming back from out of nowhere!!!
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gschmidl posted:I would simply not name something I'd want to arrive smoothly and on time "Odysseus". 
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dr_rat posted:Yeah so it may be away and out of touch now, but hey in ten years time let's see who's suddenly coming back from out of nowhere!!! No one
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Comstar posted:I know this thread is about climbing mountains, does climbing far enough to reach the moon and then crashing on it because the management decided to save some money count: this is quite a stretch to post itt lol. in fact its a good candidate to just make its own thread out of. has basically nothing to do with climbing or rich guy adventure misforutnes or whatever this thread is actually about
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:in fact its a good candidate to just make its own thread out of. As you might expect, there is in fact already a thread, which even owes its current title to that very probe: Space/Spaceflight: Ԁ∩ ƎpIS SIH┴
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Wingnut Ninja posted:As you might expect, there is in fact already a thread, which even owes its current title to that very probe: Space and Spaceflight Thread: Ԁ∩ ƎpIS SIH┴ yeah i know about that one, i lurk and sometimes post, but a gbs thread i meant
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yeah there is no gbs space thread ever since the space nerds got afraid of jokes and left for the landlord forum that lander is 100% a rich guy fucks up and eats poo poo, even if nobody died. right thread imo e: wait, they're in sal, not bfc. the children of landlords forum then Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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The space thread escaped GBS during that time that Lowtax decided to make GBS funny again, which meant returning to the early 2000s relentless shitposting he was nostalgic about. Until that nonsense calmed down it really couldn't exist here - neither could this thread, or anything that indicated any kind of genuine interest in anything, because it would get relentlessly shat down. You could have a space thread in GBS today, again, but it found a good home in SAL and nobody has made a new one in GBS.
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A space thread makes no sense because literally everything is in space. Furthermore, in this essay, I will show 
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Anne Whateley posted:May I direct the thread’s attention to Arctic Ascent, a new National Geographic series (on Disney+ or your parents’ cable). Alex Honnold, with climbers Hazel Findlay and Mikey Schaefer, lead a group up a huge fuckoff rock wall in Greenland to do climate science. It’s more responsible than Free Solo in that they’re roped in and belaying each other. Everything else about the location and specifics is way worse, like having to walk 100 miles to even get to the mountain, avoiding murder icicles and polar bears, and dealing with lovely crumbling rock the whole climb. Watched this. Pretty cool even if the reason to go felt kinda forced but whatever. The big climb is pretty insane not just because of how big it is but because it's literally crumbling away as they go up. Alex's  about the danger going up was to be expected but it was nice to see his friends taking it far more seriously and pushing back. Absolutely gorgeous environment
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IIRC he's on the autism spectrum, so he doesn't really show his emotions on his face. That and he's part terminator.
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Nocheez posted:IIRC he's on the autism spectrum, so he doesn't really show his emotions on his face. That and he's part terminator. Yeah he's ASD/HSD his amygdala doesn't respond like a baseline human.
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Elukka posted:The space thread escaped GBS during that time that Lowtax decided to make GBS funny again, which meant returning to the early 2000s relentless shitposting he was nostalgic about. Until that nonsense calmed down it really couldn't exist here - neither could this thread, or anything that indicated any kind of genuine interest in anything, because it would get relentlessly shat down. You could have a space thread in GBS today, again, but it found a good home in SAL and nobody has made a new one in GBS. I feel like the issue with a space forum in GBS is that it would immediately turn into an Elon-posting thread and then all the space regulars (myself included) would abandon it
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PittTheElder posted:I feel like the issue with a space forum in GBS is that it would immediately turn into an Elon-posting thread and then all the space regulars (myself included) would abandon it you are aware that gbs has rules and mods again, yes? e: and an elon thread
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I feel like moderation and probations could solve this issue.
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PittTheElder posted:I feel like the issue with a space forum in GBS is that it would immediately turn into an Elon-posting thread and then all the space regulars (myself included) would abandon it thats a good point. the gbs elon thread is a cesspit and the actual space thread sometimes struggles to stay on track and avoid hate bonering over elon. im considering starting a gbs space thread as i would definitely follow it closely and could moderate it but yeah i dunno. i;ll think on it
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:thats a good point. the gbs elon thread is a cesspit and the actual space thread sometimes struggles to stay on track and avoid hate bonering over elon. im considering starting a gbs space thread as i would definitely follow it closely and could moderate it but yeah i dunno. i;ll think on it 
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And/or just ignore the posts and just chat about stuff you like? It always seems to end up with more posts talking about what shouldn't be posted than the odd post which is a bit off-topic.
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Cactus Ghost posted:you are aware that gbs has rules and mods again, yes? Honestly, and I say this having checked that this thread is in fact in gbs, no  I think this is actually the only thread in gbs I ever look at, having gone full bookmarks long ago. e: I guess the OSHA and Simpsons' threads are in here too, who knew... PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Feb 29, 2024 |
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Nocheez posted:IIRC he's on the autism spectrum, so he doesn't really show his emotions on his face. That and he's part terminator. It wasn't necessarily the facial expression, but more the complete lack of care of the danger. His friend quit the climb because he deemed it too sketchy with the amount of crumbling and choss, but Alex was just "eh its no big deal really just be careful I guess?"
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I came across a youtube channel of this guy named 'David Snow' and he has a bunch of pov videos of climbers on various mountains, and re-uploaded documentaries all around mountaineering. Didn't see his name pop up in the thread search, but these are all a year+ old videos for the most part so probably old territory for some.. A decent rabbit hole for a third monitor during the workday though. Here's a couple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhS6iJXOTaQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzovtuGG0n8 Also here's an older video but another focus on the Sherpas that make this possible, David Snow's channel has this same one, but clearly re-uploaded more recently so this is the older link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhZJhon05HE
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onesixtwo posted:I came across a youtube channel of this guy named 'David Snow' and he has a bunch of pov videos of climbers on various mountains, and re-uploaded documentaries all around mountaineering. Didn't see his name pop up in the thread search, but these are all a year+ old videos for the most part so probably old territory for some.. A decent rabbit hole for a third monitor during the workday though. Here's a couple These look pretty good. Thanks!
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In arctic ascent I liked how Alex was saying hey we’ve already got so far, it would be a shame to give up now. And Mikey said that’s never a good reason to keep going. Pretty level-headed.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:thats a good point. the gbs elon thread is a cesspit and the actual space thread sometimes struggles to stay on track and avoid hate bonering over elon. im considering starting a gbs space thread as i would definitely follow it closely and could moderate it but yeah i dunno. i;ll think on it I don't think it's hard if you establish rules in the OP and come down hard on them. Search thread and auto 6er any posts containing 'musk' 'elon' 'zero G bukakke' etc. Also, my spell checker knows what bukakke is but refuses to autocorrect if spelt wrong. Neat!
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PittTheElder posted:I feel like the issue with a space forum in GBS is that it would immediately turn into an Elon-posting thread and then all the space regulars (myself included) would abandon it The spaceflight thread’s longstanding stance on Elon is extra-nominally cringe and fail.
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