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I’m in favor of us having a backup plan, but I think it should be Venus actually. There are good studies about this. You can build floating cloud cities in Venus, which float at precisely the altitude where the pressure is about 1 atm and the temperatures are even sometimes what... - tommy...
Mars feels like a really important backup plan
If there’s even a small chance that Earth is fucked from global warming, we need to be able to go to Mars. I heard a cool concept that we can basically artificially create global warming on Mars by putting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.... yeah— propulsion or interstellar travel through manipulating spacetime energy production harnessing mass-energy equivalence quantum computing helped by chatGPT… Maxwell’s equations lead to innovations like radio, television, and radar; special relativity is already crucial in... SpaceX Rocket Crashes Into Moon as Trump Battles Tariff Lawsuits and Releases Files
SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the Moon on August 5, 2026. Multiple U.S. states sued the Trump administration over new global tariffs. Trump address and released files.... - onI’m looking for inspiration. What is one video game that you’d recommend a random stranger on the internet play? Why?bySlava...
I’ve definitely heard of Outer Wilds. It’s the sort of game that I placed on my Steam wishlist a while back but have never gotten around to actually playing.... Asteroid capture through encapsulation
this research paper on asteroid capture through encapsulation and pneumatics (stabilizing the asteroid through spraying it with gas) is super cool; I watched one of the authors give the presentation and it's very compelling.... - onAs cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?by
I fully agree; and your last sentence has me brainstorming potential countervailing forces. I'm going to throw them out without yet knowing if I actually think they'll move the needle at all: space colonization: when it takes 22 minutes for light to travel from Mars to Earth, I...