I disagree.

Its slightly firmer science than star trek, but it still makes a lot of license IMO.

I dont think the cost of sending humans to Mars or to do asteroid mining will ever be justified. Bots, and not humanoid ones will explore the frontier of space, and collect the minerals we need.

If you think about all the stuff humans need to survive for any length of time it just doesn’t make any sense to send a human.

Not so much lost but, its an entirely new tech stack. So any solutions we might have had in the past are no longer appropriate solutions.

Thats a weird take.

Literally everything that just went to the moon and back is “new”.

Yes, we have been to the moon before but that doesn’t mean that all the cool stuff we just did is not an amazing achievement.

This flyby is a necessary precursor to landing and doing those cool things.

They need to take tiny incremental steps because the cost of a fuckup is so great.

If the public has to watch someone expire in space due to a malfunction the existing candle flame of support for these endeavours would be snuffed out.

Me to. Theres a podcast called “tech won’t save us” that i hate listening to because it reminds me how much we have lost.

Im not really sure what you mean by lying down? You’re not always lying down. Surely gravity is less relevant when you’re lying down anyway.

… I dont have a good understanding of physics but sci-fi novels suggest a few problems on small ships.

The first problem is the difference in gravity between your feet and your head. In a small command capsule like Artemis 2, your head might be near the centre at 0g while your feet are at the outside at 1g or even 2g. How hard does your heart need to pump blood? Would this create some kind of blood pressure problem?

The next problem is how it would “feel”. Is it called the Coriolis effect?

In a small ship you might experience 1g, but it would feel like you’re being spun around in a washing machine. Your ears would tell you that you’re constantly changing direction and it would 100% fuck you up. In sci-fi the spinning thing needs to be large enough that some g-force is produced without you feeling that sense of motion, or at least for ot to be small enough that you get used to it.

Another problem I just made up is that if there’s no gravity then 100% of the inner surface area can be terminals and readouts and equipment. If you create gravity then you need a floor to walk on which will use a heap of surface area.

epsteinfiles@lemmy.world

The reality of what’s going on provides enough to legitimately complain about. Making up headlines is just cheap outrage farming and undermines any credibility.

If you feel the title is misleading then you can absolutely complain about that in the comments.

Originally I didn’t like blocking people or communities at all but I’ve realised the lemmy experience is dramatically improved by blocking idiots.

The thing is lemmy is a relatively small community. If some nutter posts and comments every day they can really shape your impression of the place.

Some users have very little life experience, and depth of understanding, and are just fixated on some single issue. I’m not here to argue with that type of user.

Yesterday I blocked a community just because the single mod didn’t understand the problems caused by editorialising titles when posting articles.

For years it has been repeated again and again that gas is needed to firm renewables when “the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow”. Events have shown the opposite: renewables are needed to firm oil, gas and coal when the ship won’t go and the pipeline doesn’t flow.

Indeed.

Nothing new here though. Half of us have known we need to decarbonise industries as quickly as possible, while the conservatives have as usual been trying to avoid doing so.

As I’ve said a bunch of times over the last few weeks, I’d like Albo and other leaders of like minded middle powers to stand together and condemn Trump’s behavior. It’s absurd that everyone is too scared to say anything. He’s caused global harm in order to further his own interests.

I really, really dont want to defend this guy, but ill just point out that the conviction was molesting a child. Theres a spectrum of severity of sexual assault cases and not to diminish the suffering of the victim, the language and sentence in this case implies that the act was not particularly severe.

As youve said yourself, the deterrent aspect of sentences does not deter other perpetrators.

Weird punishments like physical (not chemical) castration are more about appeasing victims and the public like your good self, than they are about mitigating the impact of the crime and minimising harm now and in the future.

Tough one.

Sentences in modern societies should focus on mitigating the impact to victims and rehabilitating the offender.

Crimes that harm minors intentionally are a special category, and while I understand the hatred I think that wanting to punish the perpetrator for no other reason than revenge doesn’t really help anyone.

The requirement that permanent residents have their visa’s cancelled when found guilty of a crime is really just to ensure that the migrants we accommodate are fit and proper, compatible with Australian values. In this case, we’ve accommodated this guy for the last 40 or 50 years, and to remove him for the last 2 or 3 years of his life when he’s vulnerable is just vengeful punishment because the law happens to allow it in this case.

I mean, there’s plenty of Australian citizens convicted of similar crimes who are allowed to serve their time and then released to live out their days in Australia.

I don’t think that returning him to the UK serves any purpose.

It only takes me a few minutes to drive home from my office. Its good to just take a breath

Ah yes, that would be the chairperson of the board of peace taking a moment to select their next target.

Ive got news for you!

I don’t understand this part:

those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.

My point is, if I go to sleep tonight and time loops back around to this morning, and I don’t remember any of today, then did today really happen? It didn’t “happen” in any meaningful way.

It doesn’t matter whether I entertained a dozen nubile virgins or toiled as a slave.

If they could establish a supply chain then taking control of the arable region of Western Australia would have been trivial, that’s my understanding anyway.

Here’s that portrait she likes:

She’s a huge Trump fan.

As an 80s kid in Australia, everything about America was bigger and better. I remember my 4th grade teacher telling us we would be speaking Japanese in class if the yanks hadn’t stepped in and “saved us” in WWII.

that kind of reverence has completely evaporated now. Even people who dont pay attention to politics know that Trump caused this fuel crisis as a distraction from his habit of raping children.

But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.