Sweet, so all the shit particles, bacteria and viruses are circulated throughout the bathroom atmosphere? Fantastic.

Are you leaving the bathroom with swampass or drying your ass with a towel?

He looks like he’s just about to reach out and touch it

The question is, which one’s Irwin?

Just learn HTML?

/s

Because that’s exactly what we’ve created.

Sure. That’s why I’m looking forward to Starship, and, in the distant future, a space elevator. But we need rapidly reusable rockets before we can build an elevator.

Plus, reusable rockets are a lot cleaner than letting them sink to the seafloor, with propellant residue inside. Or letting them burn up in the atmosphere, where heavy metals degrade the ozone layer and have other negative effects.

I honestly don’t understand rice cookers. Cooking rice in a pot is so fast and easy, plus it’s basically the same process. What advantage does a rice cooker give you?

Well, I suppose that’s subjective.

Sure, we should consider the possibility of life on Mars. But we’ve already impacted possible organisms by sending spacecraft there. Even if you sterilize your craft in an autoclave and send it through the vacuum of space for months to years, there’s no guarantee that all terran organisms will be inert. Samples taken from an asteroid during the recent Hayabus-2 mission were found to have terrain organisms on them. If you want to completely cordon off martian ecology, you should’ve convinced NASA and the Soviets back in the 70s.

Bottom line is, we’ve already irreversibly changed the course of martian ecology, if there is any. What remains? Check if there’s actually anything alive over there. The best way to do that is with boots on the ground. The best places to look for life on Mars are:

• deep within the crust, deeper than any robotic probes can dig
• deep under the polar ice caps
• deep in caves and lava tubes

All of which are much easier to explore with humans.

Light, gas, CVD and a dozen other processes, depending on the application, make the inscription.

One. Lawnchair.

So when do we make decisions?

Then what are you saying? That we paralyze ourselves?

Making a decision based on the best evidence available… I feel like I’m repeating myself. Oh, I see. You’re trolling.

Musk may not be. But SpaceX is closest to quick, cheap and reusable access to space.

My answer is that we have to work with the best evidence available because informed decisions lead to better outcomes…

I think you’re right. Bit if we want a spacefaring civilization, this is the path to get there. I really wish someone else was leading the charge, but this is the world we live in.

Sometimes it feels really lonely here on Lemmy, when it comes to space exploration. People are really negative about it, as if doing that takes away resources from making the world a better place. But it doesn’t! It’s a technological innovation program; the insights gained here can help improve life on Earth. And if we can move industry to space, Earth will be thankful.

Because that’s what we know! Now you’re just arguing for argument’s sake.