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money represents resources and we're getting about as much food out of the ground as we can, so not sending probes to where ever the gently caress won't feed a single extra person
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Wanamingo posted:Yes, there's not enough food to go around. Congratulations you figured out the reason for world hunger. how is diverting money from nasa going to help distribute food exactically?
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Jun 20, 2015 21:59
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Anyone gonna talk to about the Cereal pyramid? Those bright spots gonna be domed alien cities. Calling it now.
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Jun 21, 2015 00:00
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Maybe the domes Cereal cities are full of technology about growing cereal grains. Ever thought of that.
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Jun 21, 2015 15:40
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JazzFlight posted:nah, its definitely got some odd color splotches on it not when they find out those bright spots are abandoned glass domes
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Jun 21, 2015 19:48
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two outta four aint bad
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Jun 22, 2015 14:48
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Our probe desecrating their sacred sky will piss of the Plutonians, but do not fear they will not attack us because they will decide the money is better spent feeding Pluto's children.
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Jun 24, 2015 19:21
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With this money we could have killed dozens of ISIS members and hundreds of civilians!
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Jun 24, 2015 19:29
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I imagine producing 7 billion doses would get the price down an order of magnitude or more.
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Jun 24, 2015 21:27
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opus111 posted:wHAT HAS SCIENCE RESEARCH EVER DONE FOR ME? speak for self, comrade
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Jun 24, 2015 23:55
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Page Downfall posted:"Why not give up" isn't much of an argument against the pointlessness of everything. It's not an argument about what to do, it's just a description of how things are. Ultimately, you will die and everyone who ever mattered to you will also cease to exist and shortly after, no one will remember you who you were, what you love and what drives you, or even care to know. has your boner cleared the neighborhood around its orbit?
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Jun 25, 2015 17:22
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Maybe we should figure out how to shrink space. How're we suppose to get anywhere when space is so loving big.
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Jun 25, 2015 20:28
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it may be easier, it's probably loosened up a bit
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Jul 4, 2015 00:42
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Orkin Mang posted:yeah, how bout, call me when they send a probe to the Booze nebula. When sober children in africa don't have any booze? Disgraceful.
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Jul 5, 2015 13:25
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I hope they fix it or this'll be the biggest blue balls ever.
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Jul 5, 2015 17:19
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euphronius posted:Crazy that thing only has 8 gigs of memory. But is it DDR3 or GDDR5 and is there any on chip ESDRAM?
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Decebal posted:The medium around Jupiter has the most intense radiation anywhere in the Solar system. A small nuclear reactor from earth wouldn't make much difference. Also, wouldn't all that rad. sterilize the lander ? Tardigrades might survive and we'd be setting ourselves up for an invasion in a few million years.
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Jul 6, 2015 21:35
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NASA's budget could buy every American man, woman and child Five Guys six times a year.
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Jul 9, 2015 23:11
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Matt Damon is growing potatoes on Mars so he can open a Five Guys.
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Jul 9, 2015 23:27
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ah yes. that's nice.
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Jul 10, 2015 17:21
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That movie pissed me off with bad orbital mechanics, but made up for it with absolutely rockin' tits.
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Jul 10, 2015 20:02
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NihilismNow posted:Dance of death is totally real. scifi.stackexchange disagrees
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Jul 10, 2015 21:04
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Rutibex posted:they should have put a big spring on the front of the probe, then they could bounce it off of Pluto and absorb some of that speed to put it into orbit Simulations run in KSP would suggests this works just fine.
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Jul 12, 2015 19:38
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red spot is dying. nothing lasts forever
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Jul 12, 2015 20:31
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The current definition is pretty good though. Picking a convenient size cut off seems arbitrary.
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Jul 14, 2015 02:18
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Don Dixon is a wizard.
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Jul 14, 2015 12:41
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Charon is clearly a dwarf planet whose orbit is being perturbed by Pluto.
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Jul 14, 2015 13:26
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and CCD pixels.
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Jul 15, 2015 03:24
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the melting the runway thing is pretty badass tho
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Jul 15, 2015 17:05
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They're waiting for the Google Dream to finish rendering so they can troll everyone.
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Jul 15, 2015 20:44
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Pluto-chan got goose bumps because senpai finally noticed her.
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Jul 15, 2015 21:53
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EvilGenius posted:Run one alongside a 'solve world poverty' one, and I bet NASA will get more money. well yeah, but we actually know how to launch probes
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Jul 17, 2015 14:07
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Most likely FTL is just impossible no matter how advanced you are. You need a very compelling reason to build generation ships, which would keep one empire from spreading across the galaxy.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:10
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Rutibex posted:nope, FTL isn't necessary to colonize the galaxy. for one thing we have no idea what the life span of aliens is. for two, if you can make ships that go close to the speed of light then time slows down for the occupants and makes the journey quick and leisurely The effort to make a generation ship would involve a huge population but only the passengers would benefit. After spreading your species to a couple different star systems you'd probably just say gently caress it.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:21
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Rutibex posted:thats what im saying, you don't need a generation ship. it might take 10,000 years to go to the next star over in real time, but the ships occupants would experience it as 1 year if they are traveling close enough to the speed of light: oh, okay I get your point. You'd still have the same problem as a generation ship in that the population that built it wouldn't benefit.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:27
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I don't think colonizing other stars is impossible or that no species would. I just think once you have a few star systems and each star system is self sustaining why spread further? You can't bring goods back, and your species is already protected from extinction. I think it's more likely to be a bunch of species that have colonized small pockets of the galaxy than there's no space-faring species because no species has colonized all of it.
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Jul 17, 2015 18:38
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Andromeda Galaxy in 28 years? Time dilation is a hell of a drug.
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Jul 17, 2015 19:01
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Maybe at some point you evolve past the need for planets. Then again if Dyson Spheres or whatever exist we'd probably notice a bunch of infrared "stars".
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Jul 17, 2015 19:14
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After the Rift is invented every society works on creating a pocket universe where they can enjoy their anime realities without the risk of external factors interfering, and so they disappear from our universe completely.
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John Carmack abandoning Armadillo and joining Oculus is proof of the inevitability of anime dicks.
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