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the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys

indigi posted:

the ecosphere has a health bar that may be drained before we figure out perfect recycling but not before we figure out asteroid mining (which we're already technically capable of)

have we tried always making more and more and more new stuff for profit, maybe that would work

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Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


Maximo Roboto posted:

How good are recycling processes for converting electronics and other complex synthesized products back into materials that can be reused? I know Apple likes to hype them but I have to wonder if modern civilization is so good at manufacturing complicated items that it's very hard to convert into reusable form.

Though of course, I might be thinking of plastics, which of course space mining wouldn't help because no fossil fuels up there.

Electronics recycling has a pretty high recovery rate for anything you'd get from an asteroid. Everything goes in a shredder. They use magnets to get the magnetic components out and they use induction to get conductive metals out. The problem with current electronics recycling is that it requires a lot of the work to be done by hand by people who are exposed to hazardous materials in the process but that's resolvable by modifying the recycling process.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1655871935757049857?s=20

Remulak
Jun 8, 2001
I can't count to four.
Yams Fan
The leftist take on space exploration is for those rich douchebags to explore space rather than coming back to earth.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Did anybody say "a rat done bit my sister Nell" yet

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

fermun posted:

Most of them aren't organized and theres a few that aren't actually space-themed but were in batches with space stuff that I bought so that's why you'll see one that's about hot air balloons, for example, but by far most are space-related



























two of this batch due to the hologram







If any of them are too hard to see and you want me to get another picture of them, let me know and I'll get a better pic.

owns

Prescott
May 16, 2023

I’m reading the Bible so I can teach the zombies about Heaven.
It’s just a bunch of rocks up there, guys.

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
if we're talking about space age, what about using nuclear's "thermal pollution" to heat homes instead of heating a nearby river. using the hot rocks that don't need to burn is a space age achievement.

Tighclops
Jan 23, 2008

Unable to deal with it


Grimey Drawer
chinas gonna beat the US to the moon lol

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Tighclops posted:

chinas gonna beat the US to the moon lol

this country is never going to the moon again lol

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
They got other stuff too, like lakes and plasma wind and stuff.

6423
Jun 4, 2023
radio silence is best :hmmyes:

Prescott
May 16, 2023

I’m reading the Bible so I can teach the zombies about Heaven.
I’m trying to figure out how to be dismissive of the general concept of a lake.

fermun
Nov 4, 2009

Prescott posted:

I’m trying to figure out how to be dismissive of the general concept of a lake.

i would go with "lake? more like fake" and then come up with some weird definition to make it so that nothing qualifies as a lake

6423
Jun 4, 2023
and now we go to our livestream from mars:



2023

Prescott
May 16, 2023

I’m reading the Bible so I can teach the zombies about Heaven.

fermun posted:

i would go with "lake? more like fake" and then come up with some weird definition to make it so that nothing qualifies as a lake
What if I’m too convincing and talk myself out of being comfortable delineating liquid bodies?

fermun
Nov 4, 2009
here's the new pins i've gotten since my last pins post:

ebay posting said they were picked up from an estate sale, unfortunately right now the russia-ukraine war means that most soviet space pins are shipping from israel

Prescott posted:

What if I’m too convincing and talk myself out of being comfortable delineating liquid bodies?

idk, i would simply be less convincing, i suppose.

fermun has issued a correction as of 06:32 on Jun 4, 2023

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


AnimeIsTrash posted:

this country is never going to the moon again lol

fear not, america has its biggest brain looking into it

Prescott
May 16, 2023

I’m reading the Bible so I can teach the zombies about Heaven.

fermun posted:

idk, i would simply be less convincing, i suppose.
That’s quite the thought. Gonna sit with its implications.

6423
Jun 4, 2023

semper fi, comrade

6423
Jun 4, 2023

Lord of Pie posted:

fear not, america has its biggest brain looking into it


cowboy sheriff red cowboy hat

Prescott
May 16, 2023

I’m reading the Bible so I can teach the zombies about Heaven.

fermun posted:

idk, i would simply be less convincing, i suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK1gnNTVxvc&t=200s

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

this country is never going to the moon again lol

again?

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
It's never going to be plausible enough that America could send a man to the moon to make faking it worthwhile.

Woke Mind Virus
Aug 22, 2005

I wouldn't wish going to the moon on my worst enemy

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

a congressman retweeted this story lol

https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

https://thedebrief.org/fact-check-q-a-with-debrief-co-founder-and-investigator-tim-mcmillan-part-1/

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

loquacius posted:

Did anybody say "a rat done bit my sister Nell" yet

V. Illych L. posted:

A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey's on the moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Ten years from now I'll be payin' still.
(while Whitey's on the moon)
The man jus' upped my rent las' night.
('cause Whitey's on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
I wonder why he's uppi' me?
('cause Whitey's on the moon?)
I was already payin' 'im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin' my whole drat check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
An' as if all that poo poo wasn't enough
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Was all that money I made las' year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Hm! Whitey's on the moon)
Y'know I jus' 'bout had my fill
(of Whitey on the moon)
I think I'll sen' these doctor bills,
Airmail special
(to Whitey on the moon)

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

lmao

the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys
space bump

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Cheap solar satellite Dyson swarms ftw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMiHioZrlOw

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
a swarm at L1 would go a long way toward mitigating climate change but nobody wants to talk about that

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

indigi posted:

a swarm at L1 would go a long way toward mitigating climate change but nobody wants to talk about that

It would buy a couple decades of extra time so we could get really into overshoot with ocean acidification and get some Great Dying level mass extinction going, for sure.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
the ocean acidification will happen in any case

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

The Oldest Man posted:

It would buy a couple decades of extra time so we could get really into overshoot with ocean acidification and get some Great Dying level mass extinction going, for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCEGQgjoC-g

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/23/science/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan-3

india landed a probe on the moon

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



Space exploration is a waste of money, just build a few 100m space telescopes instead.

Jon Pod Van Damm
Apr 6, 2009

THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH IS IN AND OF ITSELF A SIGN OF POOR VIRTUE. AS SUCH:
1 NEVER TRUST ANY RICH PERSON.
2 NEVER HIRE ANY RICH PERSON.
BY RULE 1, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO PRESUME THAT ALL DEGREES AND CREDENTIALS HELD BY A WEALTHY PERSON ARE FRAUDULENT. THIS JUSTIFIES RULE 2--RULE 1 NEEDS NO JUSTIFIC



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBPhE7RPOE

Russia will continue ISS participation until 2028. They will also work to build a new space station of their own.

Lpzie
Nov 20, 2006

space good for military marching and parades. opens up a whole new axis of movement...

Lpzie
Nov 20, 2006

once Space is Realized, Hell from the The Great Divorce will become Reality

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the milk machine
Jul 23, 2002

lick my keys
the us and israel must unite to destroy space

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