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@Lo@kbin.social @fruitleatherpostcard Either under the Artemis Accords or the Moon Treaty.

@ShaunaTheDead You never know with what we are finding today, but it is possible we wouldn’t even understand it if it was:
kurzgesagt did a nice little overview of this: https://youtu.be/rhFK5_Nx9xY?si=5cr0miFH0iUKhtFb&t=412

@FuzzyLeonardo The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator

@sentient_loom #kbin for the win!

@MicroWave @Emperor

@roldyclark @End0fLine Well, if you are interested in the US gov’t:

@roldyclark @End0fLine

RSS is good place to start: https://www.usda.gov/rss/latest-releases.xml

@geosoco Reduce, Report, & Block.

@HipPriest @IzzyData @Whiskeyomega Another vote for kbin. There is:

• @scifi
• @sciencefiction
• @AskScienceFiction

Kbin has a great community and I have not run into any problem users … mods or otherwise. So, I say, welcome aboard!

When relaying inconvenient news or the need to complete annoying tasks, I like the preface with it “Good news, everyone.”

@DharmaCurious https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.popularmechanics.com%2Fspace%2Fdeep-space%2Fa44938366%2Fwas-our-universe-created-by-black-hole

@perviouslyiner There is a need for it. America as whole needs a more robust public transportation system.

@stopthatgirl7 That seems really low. The Roanoke colony in the U.S. had around 120 people with access to food, water, and shelter on Earth and still vanished. I know that is not a 1:1 comparison, but the point is that I would think that a Mars colony would be 10x more difficult. But, I guess we will never know until we try.

@idoubtit Gotta love those titles!

TIL: There was something called Google Flights.

I like the ideas the site proposes in principle (a lighter, more efficient tech/internet); however, I am not sure I agree with some of the solutions, such as returning to typewriters and paper-based solutions in a general office environment. Also, I am not sure image dithering lightens a website enough. (Full disclosure: I do like the aesthetic of the site itself.)

Instead of typewriters and paper, I would say that more cli-based and tui-based solutions would be more energy efficient. As well as replacing most monitors with e-ink displays for these solutions. I do agree with the deployment of minimal, static websites. However, instead of image dithering, focus on image formats optimized for the web (such as webp). Also, include images only when helpful or relevant; not just plastering a site with stock photos. I would contend that the images and videos included on most webpages are irrelevant, anyway.

The problem here is not me and you and our websites; its corporate websites (retail, news, social media.). With all of the tracking, javascript, inline ads, popup ads, video ads, spam emails, etc that they deploy, the web has become bloated. They deploy whatever they can to get us to click. Until we, as content consumers, actively choose to avoid these sites, their behavior will never change.

@JoBo I just googled it and Kenya came up as the first hit in Search and in Bard.

Well, if some sort of artificial gravity is not implemented:

“The level of gravity on the moon—about 17 percent that of Earth’s—could wreak havoc on bones, muscles, and other organs. And then there are the psychological aspects of what one NASA astronaut described as the “vast loneliness” of the moon.”

source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/moondust-radiation-and-low-gravity-the-health-risks-of-living-on-the-moon

Seems like there are two schools of thought on this:

“We don’t know much about aliens, but we know about humans. If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.” --Stephen Hawking

“While Sir Stephen Hawking warned that alien life might try to conquer or colonize Earth, I respectfully disagree,” Tarter said in a statement in 2012. "If aliens were to come here, it would be simply to explore. Considering the age of the universe, we probably wouldn’t be their first extraterrestrial encounter, either.

“If aliens were able to visit Earth, that would mean they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets,” she added. --Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI

Source: https://www.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html