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  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • Let me know when the first colony is formed, then I can get excited.

    You don’t just jump right to the final goal, there are many steps to get there. This was one of them

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  • They’re testing entirely new everything. Just because it’s the same shape as Apollo doesn’t mean there’s anything in common

    Are you not excited by the high resolution pictures sent while they were still out there ? Apollo would have brought back film to be developed on earth?

    120Mb laser data link!!!!!!

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  • On the other hand Artemis’ 2 year lag between missions is just about right for optimal windows to mars. /s

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  • Fwiw the module is 50% larger by volume than Apollo and carries four people rather than three

    Also: computers, and a 120Mb/s laser link to earth!

    And Microsoft Outlook … LoL

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  • In red states. In some of the worst red states

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  • It’s a lot more than that, starting with transit time - take a few week lunar mission and scale it up to years

    • after such a long trip out in microgravity, will astronauts even be functional when they get there? ISS astronauts in space that long have a hard time standing, walking, etc, and now they need to assemble their habitat for the next couple years?
    • by the time they get back they will have been in space longer than ISS limits
    • while nasa has very detailed planning, anything that messes up and an “emergency” supply or rescue takes nine months or more?
    • so much more fuel needed to deal with trying to get there fast then Mars’s gravity well
    • imagine any medical emergency
    • there is no short mission where they can try something then head back after a few days. The shortest mission is over 2 years

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  • But they are setting up a base, or they’re claiming to. This is exactly why I’m excited about it.

    Assuming politics doesn’t interfere again, I’m expecting a permanent or semipermanent presence and all sort of new stuff

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  • There are an endless number of problems here on earth. However while we can make a difference, establish a trend, we can never fix them. It’s a losing battle. We fix at least as many problems by improving technology, civilization.

    Let’s take refrigerators. There are way too many people without adequate food and there always will be. We can fix the excesses, we can set a trend but we will never end hunger. However technology advances, overall societies become wealthier, and now at least in developed countries almost everyone has access to refrigeration. Trying to help the hungry doesn’t get us there, shifting the whole society forward does.

    We may not have concrete ideas how Artemis can shift society forward but in general big technology challenges do

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  • I’m on the other side, wondering where everyone is

    We’re bogged down in so much misery, so much self-destructive behavior, so many exploiters and scams, so many people in desperate circumstances …. But Artemis (and similar) is meeting a challenge, doing the impossible, setting a vision of a greater humanity, shifting civilization forward. It’s a reason to live, to hope, to be optimistic, and probably benefits even the most desperate by shifting society forward.

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  • I agree there probably isn’t one, but so what? If a country did terrible things, but if you were the decider so would you, or if you were a product of that age and so would you, then how judgmental can we be.

    For example there are a lot of evils around colonialism and it’s unacceptable today , but it seemed widely accepted a couple hundred years ago. Obviously there are degrees and some things can never be excused, but was basic colonialism really a terrible thing, say to an average Englishman 200 years ago? Terrible but realistic

    At the risk of getting blasted here, I’ll do it: consider the us attack on Iran as an example. It’s clearly a terrible action. Maybe there are reasons they think justify it, but not available in public, but even if it were in any way justifiable it’s clearly a terrible action. Yet I can see there being reasons any country might decide it needs to do similar. I can see there being circumstances where the average lemming would make a similar choice. Terrible but realistic

  • Do people get progressively less happy as they age?

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  • I’d take it further to say having enough income for a reasonable number of desires also increases happiness.

    But this is harder because you’re more miserable if you can’t moderate or your desires outgrow your resources or it turns into greed

    We’re all familiar with happy to have the freedom to buy x but the emptiness of chronic shopping

  • Do people get progressively less happy as they age?

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  • For me it’s always gone in phases. My happiest phase in life was raising kids. Now they’re in college so I need to figure out my next phase in life

  • Does anyone know of communities or other resources to share regional products (in the us)?

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  • Not that I’d complain about non-us ideas, but I want a chance to try them. A couple of recent notables include HP Sauce from England and curry ketchup from Germany

  • What are your hot takes on food culture?

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  • Traditional and culture are good if you like the food as it was originally. Here in the us, too much ethnic food is Americanized, sometimes for the worst. After experiencing a few more authentic Chinese restaurants, I’ve come to realize the many I don’t like are because they’ve been Americanized. Badly. A lot more sweet, milder flavors, everything fried.

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  • For some of us who like spice, it can be tough to get that across. “No heat challenge, but spice it like it should be. Spice it as if I weren’t white”

  • Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

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  • Look how white that hand is compared to his orange complexion: he’s wearing gloves

  • Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

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  • He was always dishonest, egocentric, always a conman …. But sane

  • Trump family deal spree could open door for future presidents to profit from office

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  • We have laws against treason that just need to be enforced.

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  • No, not in years. I don’t even know whether the one in my car works. Radio is crappy music, too much talking, constant ads: just not worth it

    Streaming is like you want radio to be: select a genre or band and it just keeps playing