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Unseen replied to the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
Actually, settling on Venus in zeppelin-style airships is far less fraught with problems. Venus has a dense atmosphere which means that normal earthly air pressure would be sufficient to float air-filled balloons above the ridiculously hot surface of the planet.
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Unseen replied to the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
@Reg
The bee population depleted due to the blocking of UV light while the cockroach population exploded. Cockroaches can reproduce asexually. A female can produce viable eggs parthenogenetically without the need of a male. So, all it took was one female cockroach stowaway and the species was off to the races.
Many of the species of plants…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
Reg and Unseen,
It’s like I mentioned earlier, the Universe is trying to kill us.
Now, perhaps in the future, something that could be feasible would be to send remote-controlled, AI-enhanced escavating and centrifuge technology to Mars to extract rare and precious stones or Metals, but that would only make sense if we knew they were there.
The…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoThat Dasein won’t last forever 😉
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoI wonder what he has on the members of his own party. I find it difficult to reconcile how so many Republicans are allowing themselves to turn their backs on almost everything the Republican Party used to stand for. Do they not get it that he is mesmerized by Putin? It does not really matter why but ‘all of a sudden’ they are standing up for…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoIs it unimaginable that Trump’s foreign policy is dictated by his fear Russia will show video of Trump in a humiliating act?
Remember how submissive his body language when he was with Putin?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
@Unseen – I remember it being covered in a BBC documentary, maybe 30 years ago? I had not really thought about it since. I guess it provided insights into the complexity of maintaining a closed ecological system and the impact of CO₂ on ecosystems.
The Martian air is 95.3% CO₂ and only 0.13% O₂. The atmosphere is 100 times thinner than Earth’…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoJake,
I tried reading Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time referred to in the article in college. After a few pages of that gibberish, I gave up trying to understand it. Perhaps that was the design of Martin’s dasein. The only thing the book is good for is a doorstop, preferably to chock the door for the knock on the door at night.
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Unseen replied to the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
@ Reg
Ever heard of Biosphere 2? It was an experiment designed to simulating a self-sustaining Mars colony. Suffice it to say, there were problems. Lots of problems.
To be clear, it was an experiment and it had problems resulting in data that might lead to future adjustments and improvements, so it…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoEnco,
Check it out punk soul brother. Kind of an interesting article i am linking that links the jew hatred of the nazis and the lefty’s. Horseshoes. As i’ve indicated i prefer the far right/nazis who are not duplicitous in their objectives. Antizionism is not antisemitism? In which universe?
Demonization: when comparisons are made between…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoReg and Jake,
Nowadays, the last place go to read any of those great-sounding works is a college library. Sad, these works would do the students and their Palestinian causes celeb some good.
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoI started to read adult books at age 6. Just like Reg with 10k steps daily i stepped through at least an hour of reading each night. When i was into a book i would read all day on no school days. Even in college i was always reading. Going to law school is what screwed me up. Felt guilty if i was not reading law. Never got back to it as a daily…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoJake,
I can’t stand that guy. He is quite the linguist though. I have read passages of his very carefully and consider him a highly skilled sophist.
So are you trying to say that Chomsky is a cunning linguist? All right, I’ll let myself out.
Well, it would be a better use of his mouth than his speeches.
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_Robert_ replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoI need to make time to read more. I am in 4 rock bands that each play a gig every few months and I am currently painting and repairing a 2-story house using scaffolding. Also managing our investments, that takes way more time than I ever imagined. I had dreams of retirement, just lounging around and sipping Mojitos, LOL. Ah hell, I would just get…[Read more]
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoAnd one more that a friend has borrowed called The Irrational Ape, by an Irish science writer.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoI do read the majority of the books I list on Sunday School!! Here are a few more I would recommend.

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
Radiation exposure alone should consign the whole project to the bad ideas bucket. Without 24/7 shielding it would be like getting a whole-body CT scan every few days. People love to talk about terraforming, domes, or underground habitats, but Mars is basically a slow-cooker for human DNA.
Some suggest digging habitats 5-10 meters underground…[Read more]
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Unseen started the topic Dear Elon: We will NEVER colonize Mars in the forum Science 1 year, 8 months ago
This video lays out some reasons why it won’t happen:
But there are other reasons as well. For example, Musk wants to terraform Mars to give it a breathable atmosphere. But Mars has a hard time holding onto an atmosphere for two reasons: 1) it has 1/10 the mass of Earth and 1/3 the gravity, and 2)…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoReg,
Tariffs are where Trump has always been wrong, but if DOGE had gone as wild against Tariffs as they had on USAID, there would be other interests, both agricultural and industrial, who would be caterwauling as much as all the interests caterwauling over cuts to USAID.
Government should stay out of either subsidy or protectionism for any…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School March 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 8 months agoReg,
In an interview on Russian state television on Sunday, Mr. Lavrov listed the ills that Europe — not America — had brought upon the world. The United States, in his telling, had gone from evil mastermind to innocent bystander.
“Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler,” Mr. Lavrov said. “If we look at h…
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