If you flush a popsicle stick down the toilet it won’t go around the p trap and will eventually cause a backup and a plumber will have to come fix it. So think carefully where your popsicle sticks end up.

Antarctica is much more habitable than anywhere else in the known universe that isn’t earth. I don’t want to live there though.

A lot of that is water vapor coming off the outside of the chilled tanks, though?

No, there’s a lot of ice that falls off. Ice doesn’t come off in plumes from vents.

The thing about spacex’s falcon 9 architecture is, it’s an economy of scale. They need to launch a lot to be profitable. As soon as the started launching regularly they quickly ran out of commercial clients. The industry wasn’t ready for regular trips to space. All the waiting satellites got quickly launched and the backlog essentially evaporated. Spacex spent the time waiting for the new satellites to be built launching starlink. This allowed them to push the limits of reusability with their own private launches to show their commercial clients how safe used rockets are. This was always the plan, building consumer confidence by cornering the low orbit satellite market.

Way back during one of the early starship presentations Elon presented an idea for funding starship that was selling underpants (haha, 2016 Elon! You crazy!) There was a plan.

In the beginning space exploration was used to justify public funds for the development of intercontinental missiles and the industrial military complex. Now it’s used to justify space capitalism.

I’m not talking about the launch tower, I’m talking about the rocket. You can watch the live stream and see puffs of vapour regularly. It being a rocket there are very few things that gas could be. Some of it is nitrogen, sure, but the thing is 95% methane and oxygen and there is certainly very little nitrogen associated with the engines. I’m sure they’re not looking to dump it with no regard, unless they carry on with the “autogenous thrusters” which involves using propellant for maneuvering.

As for Mars, I think that’s total bullshit. His big idea was to corner the wireless internet market. He used Mars to sell it to us.

I was all in on space exploration. I followed the grasshopper. I watched the early landing attempts. I eagerly watched the Boca Chica developments. I watched the first full stack starship lift off…

And suddenly I had an ache in my gut. I instantly realized this was never about space exploration. This is about being the first guy in a new area of resource extraction. This is Musk pushing to be the first Spaniard in the New World to plunder all the riches before the next guy can get there. The “No planet B” is just a bullshit line to mask the unfettered greed that actually drives Musk.

By the time we have starship flying as planned, the earth will be a burning husk less habitable than the destination.

The rocket is reusable to increase profit. It does not “help the environment”. Methane burns “clean”, but only when it burns. When it’s leaked by venting, engine startup and shut down, and RUD’s it probably classifies as “the most potent greenhouse gas” injected into a region of atmosphere that’s never really seen pollution yet.

Yes, the engineering is incredible. But I can’t help but think of the associated costs.

McConnell’s experiments proved to be largely irreproducible.

Apparently not so much.

The reason the world is becoming such a terrible place is that people are piling onto the greed train in an effort to “get mine while the getting good”. Playing the game makes the world a worse place.

I think they mean a ‘debt servicing’ type thing, where you need an income of 3x the rent per month?

I’m sure that leaking methane into the upper atmosphere will have only beneficial affects to our climate.

Me too. Train yourself to keep your shoulders back and down. While you’re doing that point your chin forward and then bring it back into your neck keeping your head straight. If you look like an idiot doing the chicken walk, you’re probably doing it right.

And? Adding overly-processed milk to overly-processed coffee cancels out the processing or something? Don’t drink it then.

It depends if you like coffee, or coffee flavored milkshakes.

Who drinks milk at all? I get a giant zit immediately after having some.

This comment is like a New York Times daily game “which word is the typo?”

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Lemmy won’t catch on until there are groups of communities you can ban at once. Sports, Linux, German, pervy anime… It’s a very rare user who will put up with the absolute dreck of the initial feed and manually block communities until they have a feed that’s marginally personalized.

Then there’s the fact that any communities that are specific to peoples interests are completely empty.

She wanted to leave

If you use a stick with two points in it, its called a trammel.

It implies “free” in English too, the “fewer” meaning is probably from marketing people covering their ass. It’s a play on stainless steel, in that it can still rust but mostly doesn’t.