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It makes sense to me...it's a claim about opportunity cost. There's a reason people invest in the market rather than in savings accounts, even though the savings accounts give a positive return. "Why not spend more" makes sense and there is an argument for increasing the science budget. But...

Why not just spend the money working on earth? The technologies, in many cases, are opposites. Earth needs to be cooler. Mars warmer.

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 of its atmosphere or remove its magnetosphere. And a distressingly high average temperature of 17 or 18 on Earth will be relatively pleasant compared to -60 on...

How would you supervise how the money is spent, then? Someone has to choose. We don't have infinite money.

I am highly skeptical of this claim--in what sense is earth a dying planet? If dead = Mars then climate change isn't even a fever.

I have bad news about the habitability of space

I believe this. The question for me is, do those benefits outweigh what we would have gotten by spending the same money on earth-based science research? The Apollo program had a lot of spinoffs, but any science program spending 4% of the GDP would have gotten us useful stuff. Space based...

There's some romance to the idea, but one reason I feel Weir's work is a bit dated is the focus on human spaceflight. The advances in robotics make it less and less important to send humans along for the ride. Compare Viking and Perseverance, for example. Likewise, the idea that population...

I saw the film recently. I thought it was good but I didn't respond to it as well as I've seen a lot of people. I suppose, the "dude befriends nonhuman little guy" concept feels old to me? Not least because The Mandalorian did it so recently. I enjoyed the earnestness of the film which is...

I think most people have heard of it but most people don't really care. More than any particular venue, Facebook and YouTube are both online, and the people who care the most tend to be very online.

oh dear

I read the books a while after they came out. Especially 5 had a reputation for being overly long, and I stopped there until the movie hit. Once I finished 5 though, 6 & 7 were both around and were fast reads, just a couple of days each. The movies played as large of a role for me. Because I...

Agree. Kids love the chosen one story, they love the house system and sorting themselves into it, they love the quidditch.

On the bounds of millennial/Gen z.

They did try this with the fantastic beasts series. The first one I saw and was ok. My wife watched a YouTube video about the second. Apparently it retconned some major plot points from the first and had a convoluted plot. I don't mind a retread of the past compared to new material, because...

I saw the trailer. I can't say I'm that interested in the show. That said, I enjoyed the rings of power so I'm not someone who is the most skeptical of reboots. I think I'd give this show a try, if I happened to have HBO access. It doesn't yet look like it's doing much different than the...

Love the new Hoard roller! Could you add documentation about what tables it is rolling on, and possibly a link to an official SRD site?

Looking good. I like that the monster lab has a better name and is now editable. It still could be more readable from the human perspective. Is there a way to generate a nice table that the user can see? They could either edit the table directly or edit the text which affects the table. Then...

Interesting project. I can imagine several of the functions being useful--I looked at monster generation and villain generation. But, I didn't find it that intuitive to use. Compare to something like donjon. The key differences are that with donjon: (1) the names of the generators are intuitive...

I'm young for this space (just shy of 30). But, I sought out older discussion boards because the algorithm is better for involved discussions than modern social media. I do wonder when they'll go away. So much stuff is on discord now, where you can't get into the weeds of anything and anything...