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  • What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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  • Those earth-like exoplanets are many light years away. They’re not just a hop past mars and we may never be able to reach them (cue people jumping in talking generation ships that we don’t know if we will ever be able to build ).

    There are other possible places in our solar system though, depending on how many problems we’re able to solve, notably large water moons of the gas giants

    So yeah, systematic, gradually reach farther, moon—>mars—>space stations—> water moons, over a few centuries. I’m sure each step will be harder than the last but we can dream we can grow we can meet challenges …. Until we cant

  • What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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  • Yes and no. I don’t really see how robots in space is usually an end goal. Sure, we need satellites, probes, telescopes like we already do.

    But mining is a great example where there’s no point . Of course robots can do it cheaper than humans but there are extremely few, if any, resources valuable enough to be worth mining in space and bringing back. Maybe helium-3 if we ever get fusion working.

    Where it is worth machines mining in space is to support human space activities. Being able to, for example, build habitats or at least radiation shielding from simple local rock saves huge amounts over bringing that weight from earth. The reason people are excited about craters near the South Pole of the moon is the prospect mining water, oxygen, even rocket fuel for use to make human space activities radically cheaper. At that point you’ve drastically cut the weight of things needing to be lifted from earth, radically cut costs, while making life in space generally safer and easier.

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  • While it’s easy to agree with your priorities, taking resources away from our future will make next to no difference. Most of these issues are not budget issues and the space program is a miniscule budget comparatively.

    For example most of these places where overuse of water is ruining ecosystems can’t really be helped with money. Maybe more intelligent allocation helps in some cases but we really need to face that some places can’t support the number of people there

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  • “Disperse the population” is still way out in the future and we don’t even know yet if we’ll be able to.

    But there are so many steps we should be taking. Life shouldn’t just be a drudge, a life worth living has hopes and dreams, visions of a better future, in addition to challenges driving innovation. Yes we need to invest more in our people, but investing in our dreams has far less money but can return larger value

    I know I’ll never live long enough to see a colony but the space program has been a true inspiration from the beginning watch Apollo landings on the family black and white tv. We had a bit of a lull but developments around space are coming faster and more exciting than ever.

    I’m excited to progress toward a permanently manned moon base, to answer more questions about whether we’ll ever be able to live in space, develop ever more technology to approach that possibility.

  • Trump Declares Iran War Nearly Over: ‘The War is Very Complete, Pretty Much’

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  • Bs, not more “both sides same”

  • Global oil prices are skyrocketing 🛢️📈. This week, people in Alexandria, Virginia, are protesting against bike lanes

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  • I was actually going to jump on their side: that area is still very car centric and you need to be able to handle that while taking steps toward safe cycling and walkability. …… then the video was showing a mostly empty street where many of the houses had driveways, so no. They can suck it up and park in their driveway or around the corner like the rest of us

    Or heck, that street is really wide. We have narrower streets with both a protected bike lane and parking

    The church should have accomodations though, even if it means closing part of the bike lane sundays

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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  • Cambridge is like 30 years ahead of this. They are a model for the rest of us

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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  • This is not just a matter of adding protected bike lanes. Cambridge is a geographically tiny but high population density city that has been consistently working in this direction for decades. What would be a huge accomplishment anywhere is just another step

    It’s fantastic they’ve been able to accomplish so much toward car-free living and I wish I could afford to live there.

    One of the things people should take from my response is that protected bike lanes are a great step but not sufficient by themselves. All the other steps Cambridge has taken to increase walkability, bus, and subway access, to curtail cars, to encourage walking, to adding protected bus lanes, to remapping their street grid to form an oasis helped make this possible

  • F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes

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  • Some children will. But the argument is that if candy flavored vapes didn’t exist, if vape sellers couldn’t target children with marketing and selling, then a lot fewer would be tempted, or not until they’re older.

    No one expects such a thing to be absolute: it’s a stats game

  • I want to move already

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  • Are you planning to goto college? It’s tough to make such a huge change at your age, but perhaps there are smaller changes that would help, while also building toward more ability to change countries, should you prefer that.

    • for full time college, many people live at school, away from unwanted relatives
    • many colleges are more liberal
    • many colleges are in more liberal parts of the us
    • college can help set you up for a job that lets you afford things like moving to another country
    • maybe you can apply to a college in a different country

    I don’t know anything specific about Norway, but I’m sure they have colleges and most countries are more welcoming to people with college degrees

    As a teenager, it may be more achievable to apply to full time colleges in a liberal state, or in a different country

  • Did you drink alcohol when you were younger than me?

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  • My younger wine is at college and doesn’t drink (good for him). Since the drinking age here is 21, most college kids can’t legally drink. Of course they do anyway, and I can’t be too judgemental since I did at that age as well.

    However my son abandoned his initial group of friends because that’s all they wanted to do, socially. There’s a game, and students get free tickets: nope, I’d be late to the frat parties. There’s this cool trail: nope, the parties are then. Let’s go to this movie: I’ll be drinking then.

    I realize I’m only hearing half the story, but it really seems like not just excessive drinking but drinking as a problem, interfering with normal life.

  • This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense

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  • That sodium is pretty obscene too

  • How do you intake caffeine and how much?

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  • 2 mugs of 10 oz dark coffee, black, extra strong. I’m currently moderating, trying to stick to that.

    I’ve found that k-cups have a similar advantage to soda cans when you want to moderate. You can’t fill up a super-mug and there is no pot/2L bottle to finish. Portion control is crucial

  • A Disturbing Clue Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Her Crash. And Then She Was Eaten by Crabs.

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  • Her navigator wasn’t the most famous woman pilot of the time

  • 40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsolete

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  • Looks like we have some in Iowa or Montana also

  • 40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Reduction and renewables could make much of this traffic obsolete

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  • I’m not sure sail is even viable, as in not compatible with modern capitalism. Most shipping has some sort of schedule or deadline, and you can’t just take an extra month “ because we were becalmed”

    Although I was also going to object based on more complex harbors, but that leads right to battery power. Right where all the shipping, all the emissions, all the pollution comes together where it can harm people ……. Why not battery-only, while in harbor?

  • When the Category Leader Stalls : Postman and the Future of API Tooling

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  • That all sounds like a nightmare. I use curl api calls from DevOps where I’m not really doing much and time isn’t usually a concern. But I can’t imagine our product developers using it, it just doesn’t seem scalable, maintainable or performant

  • Buying a new car has become unaffordable for a growing number of Americans. The auto industry is worried

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  • It’s the size creep if anything

    I don’t know. My brother works for a legacy manufacturer and claims the difference in material cost between small and large vehicles is minimal. Assembly cost is far more than material cost. He used this to justify why they couldn’t make a small truck: it’s equally complex to assemble and the materials cost difference is minimal so they couldn’t make it enough cheaper that anyone would buy it.

    Up to you whether to buy the company line but that’s the claim

  • Buying a new car has become unaffordable for a growing number of Americans. The auto industry is worried

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  • Slate promises to be analog

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    Looking for garage heater, US, 240v, 5000w

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Euro-Lemmings: do you see common charger rules beyond computer devices?

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    The 8 U.S States With the Highest Car Accident Fatality Rates in 2025

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  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Two Texas moms were forced to wait for urgent care after pregnancy loss. They died — The Dallas Morning News

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  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    RECIPE

    Crispy salmon in Avocado sauce

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Do dams pregame?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Someone got some new sweatshirts

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Thread for Inovelli Blue?

  • AssholeDesign @lemmy.world
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    Unfortunate ad placement

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    QUESTION

    What to look for in an Olive Oil?

  • iPhone @lemmy.world
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    Is it worthwhile capturing personal photos as spatial?