The Pilgrims on the Mayflower came here to live and stay. They didnât wait around Plymouth Rock for the return trip, and neither will people building up a population and a settlement
The starving inhabitants of Jamestown did, though.
Also North America was populated by more than just robots.
This goes in the âprosâ column for Mars.
Well Republicans usually name every damn thing after Reagan. This time, Bush is getting the credit. The George W Bush Mars capsule - I wonder if the name will be bad luck?
I hope not. A Mars capsule by any name is a Mars capsule and deserves all the success it can get.
Reading Kim Stanley Robinsonâs work on the colonization of Mars has taken some of the shine off of this idea for me, but it is, still, an achievement that should be undertaken. Heard a scientist the other day stating that humans have, now, the capacity to alter the trajectory of Earth-killing meteors, but seeing as how the US govât can hardly even keep the govât operating year-round, it doesnât make sense to bank everything on collision avoidance.
Also, when I consider humanity âmoving to the starsâ, is it wrong that I think of Miggs flinging his semen at Jodie Foster? Ugh.
Indeed. I believe we made a mistake not furnishing said pilgrims with a far leakier boat. Letâs not Mayflower Mars as wellâŚ
Letâs take Mars and terraform it as it can be. Pelt it with some comets if thereâs not enough native water. And then continue to Jupiterâs moons.
Well Mars also have the problem of no local plants or animals to forage off of, no air to breath, and a chance if one contractor decided the landing sequence is metric and another Imperial youâre kinda screwed.
Thatâs what the terraforming part is for. A sealed colony is only the beginning.
Hey, that was just once!
Thereâs an easy solution to that problem. Any engineer caught using Imperial units anywhere in the command chain will be forced to mush someone home after work.
As an american and one of the last users of the imperial system this pleases me.
We seriously need to get with the times, something I thought would happen by now.
As one stuck with both metric and Whitworth and piping (G/R, but mostly G) threads, itâs an annoyance but something you can at the end of it get used to.
In graphics, it is sometimes inches, sometimes millimeters, sometimes pixels. In CNC, it boils down to the motor steps.
Itâs all only units. The other one is just a constant and a multiplication away.
Iâm just glad that theyâre going to wait until after the Year 2038 crisis is resolved.
The âcrisisâ will start manifesting days to years in advance, depends on the particular piece of software. If source code is available, recompiling with longer integer for time_t will be the cure. (MAJOR argument for source code availability - contingencies like this.) If not, the machine can be hacked to run in false time, couple years âearlierâ.
In complete fairness dude wanted to fund NASA for cool shit.
Another proof that almost nothing is completely good or completely bad.
He had a Vice President, you know.
Yeah, sure, just letâs not âBâ Ark the fucker with crazy puritansâŚ
