One of the interesting things I found in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson was the first mars settlers trying to create a new type of society without many of the problems the left behind.
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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
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.
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
“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.
Bs, not more “both sides same”
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 is like 30 years ahead of this. They are a model for the rest of us
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
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
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
I found this online and tried it tonight. It turned out amazing, and photogenic!
The only catch was it called for pan searing the salmon 8-10 minutes but mine took over 20
Rice was just a rice cooker. I used broth instead of water and glopped in some lemon juice when it was ready
This is one of my last “good” meals before my youngest moves out to college, so it was a big deal to turn out so well.
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In this case I doubt it