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I can think of at least one thing, that is within our grasp, that could help in many ways. Orbital crystal growth. Creating flawless... -
Space stations, probably in the belt are more likely than Mars.
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If you can make Mars habitable, you can definitely make Earth habitable for a lot less money. And while climate change is bad, and has...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to The Firebird's post in the thread The value of manned space flight? with
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There is no comparison between how bad the Earth could get from climate change and Mars. Climate change is not going to strip the Earth... -
UngainlyTitan reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread The value of manned space flight? with Like.
Colonizing Mars or another body in our solar system, or beyond, is not happening before unchecked climate change risks our extinction...
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Look, folks, NASA is 0.35% of the Federal budget. A fractuon of one percent. You can't solve major world problems by scraping funds out...
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Aside from the value, return on the dollar, etc., short of some truly global collapse/catastrophe, humans are not going to stop...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to fnordland's post in the thread The value of manned space flight? with Like.
Space is a hostile environment. I suggest that space is hostile to all life developed in a gravity well. To survive in space over time...
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UngainlyTitan replied to the thread The value of manned space flight?.It is valuable and worth doing, just not as valuable, or as worth doing as the unmanned sensor platforms and robotic probes to other...
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It is impressive. It's very impressive, despite being just a line item for the USA. It's larger than the GDP of 70 countries. And 25...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread The value of manned space flight? with Like.
https://acityonmars.com/ A City on Mars will pretty much convince you that humans going to Mars, with near-term technology, and...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread The value of manned space flight? with Like.
Hard science research that doesn't have an immediately obvious commercial application is something that only governments can do, since...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands with Like.
I'm reading the wonderful Appendix N fiction anthology and it's kind of a shock to the system. While a lot of it definitely prefigures...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Mecheon's post in the thread D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands with Like.
There is exactly 0% evidence of this, and given pulp fantasy is basically dead and buried in the modern day, I think its a bit of a leap...
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UngainlyTitan reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Yet another "How old are you?" thread with Like.
Does show how old this place leans, even if I'm so far the only one born in the 50's (albeit late 50's in my case).