The only thing i tend to underestimate is peoples thinking abilities and their lack of knowledge of vortexes, pressure gradients, and holistic designs.
Damn procedural thinkers, they should be teaching lisp in grade schools.
Hey! Don't forget about the positives of our sanitary toilets!
LIke all the money that goes to the medical industry because of all the problems caused by incorrect elimination posture!! And those knees don't magically lose their flexibility on their own! Physiotherapists need love too! Why even the pot and chiropractic industries get to cash in on the resulting back problems after the knees go!
Good thing we know which plants are good at chelating which metals. Permaculture at its best is when you have certain plants cleaning the soil, certain plants amending the soil, and others taking up the stuff and producing food.
Of course, logic in agriculture never cuts it in the US.
Billy stop being silly and please don't spread disinformation.
Plants never grow 'up', they grow towards the light. The only thing people THOUGHT would be a problem is root formation, but it turns out that doesn't depend on gravity either.
The easy solution, as opposed to your high embodied energy tech, is to surround your growing space with water, you need to store it anyways. Takes care of the radiation and allows light through.
Sure making some seed bombs and throwing them at planets might work, but it will take a long time.
Realistically, Mars or the moon is where we'd be going first. An aquaponics setup would make the most logical sense for a starter colony to provide fish, oxygen and fuel(algae), radiation protection, recycling of urine, etc... With composting of human fecal matter through concentrated solar to produce biochar and hot water. Then usage of dust, pebbles, rocks, from digging out habitats, some for concrete, some for drainage, some for soil(biochar and compost) amendment.
All of which is doable right now and since life tends to always find a way, you'll get your specialized bacteria soon enough.
When are we going to switch to hemp? After all, if you really want to be green, something that grows faster, producers longer stronger fibers, easier to harvest, less polluting to process, etc, etc... and we already use it in construction, awesome paper, and clothing.
The US has certainly done a disservice to the world with it's Reefer madness.
Kids don't play hockey so they can fight, they play because it's fun. You're obviously not canadian. Even bodychecking is restricted and usually only allowed at 'elite' levels.
As for popular and exciting? That's the boring part where an idiot stops all the action because he's being a meathead.
The ratio of meatheads is very low. I think at most we would have 1 kid in class who wasn't capable of controlling his aggression and that's about it.
Of course, with the invasion from the US that might be changing, but in my time even the bullies were kind of polite, i.e., if you didn't engage them they wouldn't do anything. Never saw 1 fight in grade school. Saw 1 fight in highschool where they just circled and not a single punch was thrown. The only fights I saw were inter-school, that's how low the ratio of idiots was. Even gang fights were pretty unspectacular and it was usually just one individual having a problem with another. I once saw an encounter between a bunch of black guys and a white supremicist and all they did was make the guy remove his white laces.
I used to be an idealist myself. Then I smoked way too much weed and realized that people do not hear what you are saying. They hear your words being said by themselves.
Since people can't see what they don't know and basically just hear themselves talking I've since moved on to the long term tactic of echoing back to them with less noise. The hope being that if they really do only hear themselves, then eventually they might clue in as to what is going on.
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You can get more intelligent just like you can lose it as well.
Worse yet, all of those round trips are done synchronously.
Don't blame the protocol for a problem with an implementation.
Unfortunately, it seems your brain is to puny to understand math and the objective measures that are used to measure colour reproduction.
You must be from one of those countries with third world education systems.
Canadians and Mexicans both seem to understand inches better.
Damn procedural thinkers, they should be teaching lisp in grade schools.
What's funny is how many people will think you're being serious and you're a crazy bible thumper... except it's clear you haven't read the bible.
What would be really sad is if you were a bible thumper and didn't know anything about your 'holy' book.
LIke all the money that goes to the medical industry because of all the problems caused by incorrect elimination posture!! And those knees don't magically lose their flexibility on their own! Physiotherapists need love too! Why even the pot and chiropractic industries get to cash in on the resulting back problems after the knees go!
Just build specially designed pipelines with parabolic reflectors under them to separate out the salt.
Why's everybody got to think harder not smarter.
Plastic bubbles.
The chemistry is weak in this one... as well as the reading comprehension.
Does the saran wrap make the ipad more comfortable to sit on? Or is it just for waterproofing?
Of course, logic in agriculture never cuts it in the US.
Plants never grow 'up', they grow towards the light. The only thing people THOUGHT would be a problem is root formation, but it turns out that doesn't depend on gravity either.
The easy solution, as opposed to your high embodied energy tech, is to surround your growing space with water, you need to store it anyways. Takes care of the radiation and allows light through.
Realistically, Mars or the moon is where we'd be going first. An aquaponics setup would make the most logical sense for a starter colony to provide fish, oxygen and fuel(algae), radiation protection, recycling of urine, etc... With composting of human fecal matter through concentrated solar to produce biochar and hot water. Then usage of dust, pebbles, rocks, from digging out habitats, some for concrete, some for drainage, some for soil(biochar and compost) amendment.
All of which is doable right now and since life tends to always find a way, you'll get your specialized bacteria soon enough.
The US has certainly done a disservice to the world with it's Reefer madness.
'Premium' hardware is a constantly moving target. Every second it's not on the market it's depreciating.
Oh, right, you're just a troll.
there sure is a lot of paranoid stupidity about how tech works.
You don't get to be a slashdot ed. by being able to control your addictions!
Ah, for the days of misspent youth.
BTW, I've read all of both Tintin and Asterix in both english and french. Really no difference for Tintin.
As for popular and exciting? That's the boring part where an idiot stops all the action because he's being a meathead.
The ratio of meatheads is very low. I think at most we would have 1 kid in class who wasn't capable of controlling his aggression and that's about it.
Of course, with the invasion from the US that might be changing, but in my time even the bullies were kind of polite, i.e., if you didn't engage them they wouldn't do anything. Never saw 1 fight in grade school. Saw 1 fight in highschool where they just circled and not a single punch was thrown. The only fights I saw were inter-school, that's how low the ratio of idiots was. Even gang fights were pretty unspectacular and it was usually just one individual having a problem with another. I once saw an encounter between a bunch of black guys and a white supremicist and all they did was make the guy remove his white laces.
I sincerely say, can't we all just get along?
Well, that's a nice pipe dream. ;)
I used to be an idealist myself. Then I smoked way too much weed and realized that people do not hear what you are saying. They hear your words being said by themselves.
Since people can't see what they don't know and basically just hear themselves talking I've since moved on to the long term tactic of echoing back to them with less noise. The hope being that if they really do only hear themselves, then eventually they might clue in as to what is going on.
No signs of hope yet...
So you haven't seen the dolphin and fish video eh? Monkey and frog?
Well, this comment certainly did better on Soylent.