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Going to Mars is stupid. It's an airless desert. I went to the Grand Canyon once, and you know what? I was ready to go after a couple hours. And I could breathe. There's nothing to do on Mars. There's nothing good to go find. It's just a big stupid desert. Europa would be way cooler. Or, yeah, Enceladus.
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How about we do a human mission to somewhere cool instead, like Enceladus? It has a subsurface liquid ocean. We could explore space AND the ocean.
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Jun 12, 2015 00:57
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I wonder if the sun is sentient.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:16
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rudatron posted:Any long range space mission is going to effectively rely on the same technology as colonization, because there's no way you're gonna pack enough stuff to feed people for years. Environmentalism is pragmatic.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:17
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Enjoy posted:Assuming we establish a permanent presence on Mars, and assuming we discover fossilised lifeforms, and assuming fossils can be used for necromancy, what will the magic discipline be called for Martian necromancers? Xenonecromancy? It would still be necromancy since necro = dead stuff & mancy = magic stuff.
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Jun 12, 2015 01:33
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I love tech AND amoral masturbation, and I'm sapient, basically. Do I get to go to space?
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Jun 12, 2015 19:58
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Has anyone ever tried to communicate with the Sun? What if it's trying to talk to us?
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Jun 12, 2015 23:32
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My chemistry sucks, but okay so gaseous sulfur dioxide doesn't seem like it would pose a threat to a craft other than if it leaked and killed everyone inside, but I mean if your spacecraft is leaking then you're already dead before you get there. The gaseous sulfuric acid could be a big problem, but wikipedia says concentrated sulfuric acid works differently from dilute sulfuric acid. What if you react tin with 2 H2SO4 from the martian atmosphere, save the byproducts, drink the water, and use solar power to reconvert the burnt tin back into regular tin? Kind of like how carbon dioxide scrubbers work? Then your floating biosphere made out of copper and plexiglass acrylic http://www.eplastics.com/Plastic/Plastics_Library/Chemical-Resistance-of-Plexiglass-Acrylic will survive just fine
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Jun 13, 2015 02:06
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There's also apparently loads of CO2 in the venutian mesosphere, which means you can harvest carbon for making things.
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Jun 13, 2015 02:27
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CommieGIR posted:I'm all for this. Mars is a nice stepping stone, but there are better targets. But getting to Mars will prove we can do it. Why Mars? Why not Titan? Why do we need a stepping stone?
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Jun 18, 2015 03:20
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I like the idea of going to space because it seems like it would be all peaceful and serene to be floating around up in the dark, seeing stars and whatnot. If you have a big ship to take you places, there would be all kinds of LEDs flashing everywhere and a bunch of computer displays showing science stuff. You might have a girlfriend or wife in your spaceship, and you can make love while floating around your cabin. The only problem is that Mars aint' the kind of place to raise a kid. In fact it's cold as hell. Plus it has gravity so no floating.
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