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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
8h ago“When we race to reach the moon or Mars, who should get to decide if the risk is worth taking: the explorer or the rest of us?”
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- stephen...
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... 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... - stephen...
- stephen...
From Perplexity: Floating Cloud Cities: The idea of constructing floating cities in Venus’s atmosphere is indeed a subject of scientific consideration.... 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... - Shera JoyCry...
Interesting to note, one of the humans attempting Mars rocket ships also promotes having more children and sounds alarms bells that we need more population not less.... amazing, I’d never heard of this! Venus is the hottest planet, but I agree cloud city with a slight backup plan feels way better than underground. Venus is 10.65 million miles closer according to Google; is it easier or harder to get to in terms of slingshotting or space debris... I often joke with Stephanie that our kids are going to work on Mars, just to keep the weirdness of the future grounded in some sort of concrete thing that breaks my frame-assumptions of what will be.... Unless it’s life or death, I personally wouldn’t move to a planet with less than a million people on it (imagine Austin is the entire world, that feels like the bare minimum for me)....