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Hmm, interesting question. I've got a bit of Man Vs. Self going on in this Step, but I foresee a fair bit of Man Vs. Society in my future, paired closely with Man Vs. Environment (particularly, a very red and dusty environment, if you catch my meaning), all for a purpose that I think veers towards Man Vs. God but I cannot really know that. I don't have much Man Vs. Man or Man Vs. Beast, and I expect it to stay that way.

Hm, after less than half a minute? I hope not. I was the only one down there.

Today I went into a relative's basement and felt something very strange. I felt very disoriented and dizzy, I almost felt like I would pass out if I stayed down there. I could only stay a few seconds in any room. When I went upstairs the feeling subsided. Now, I'm not saying it was ghosts but it was probably some kind of ultrasound.

I've read a couple books set in different universes - those are interesting. The Planiverse is about two-dimensional beings, a little more realistic than Flatland and describes some of their biology, culture, and engineering. The nuances of that are interesting to me. I also read a book called The Clockwork Rocket which is set in a universe where the laws of relativity are slightly different - different wavelengths of light have different speeds. So, aliens living in entirely different environments from us.

Florida Man Defeats Arby's Sandwich in Sword Fight

For now it only has to be cheaper than Virgin. We probably have to wait for competitors to pop up before the price actually starts to drop to middle-class vacation range. Also at 6 seats per flight you're going to have tremendously long wait times until they get in the groove of things.

Trust me, they will say the windows themselves are distorted and can't be trusted. You have to actually let them free out the airlock.

Banned because you are no Laser Master....I am the one TRUE LASER MASTER!! Thanks I've been sitting on that joke for like three years

Ten thousand Creepio clones, all imbued with a terrible vision of the Singularity...We would be doomed to suffer in the laser mines forever.

Carbon Polymer Electromagnetically Locking Construction Units. A cane.

BANANNED For being a banana.

I know it was no coincidence you guys unlocked this thread for a little while exactly while everyone was distracted watching the SpaceX presentation!

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*cough crickets cough* I am going to do a study on this - the feed mass required over a two-year trip, how long it takes to produce a serving in a self-contained unit of, say, one cubic meter, whether current methods of feeding and cleaning would be feasible in 0-g...We know they're a good choice for food, but who's ever actually built a box and farmed them in the context of spaceflight?

You could do 100 people if every one of them is perfectly fine with never being alone.

There's pretty good evidence for it. The issue is that the ice is mixed in with all the dirt everywhere but the poles. How are we going to suck out pure water from the dirty permafrost?

301 Stainless is super strong at very low and very high temperatures.

"This platform is the Earth" Flawless analogy, Elon! Boy, that landing looks uncomfortable...

Interesting animation of the skydiver motion. The ship really seems to be modeled after a skydiving human as far as control surfaces.

While we wait, have some hype music. https://spaaace.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-for-presentation

Today I went to the DMV to get my drivers licence renewed. Turns out they can't do that today because the state is updating its databases. "There are signs everywhere!" Well not anywhere on your website where I actually check for this stuff! Also, they never do the type of licence I'm looking for on weekends, which means I have to find a time in the middle of my full time college student schedule - they all close around 4:00 PM on weekdays.

Maybe with spectroscopy on transiting planets only? At least we have two about the same size as Earth in Teegarden's system.

Florida Man regains hearing when pet alligator coughs up hearing aid

I don't think it's any closer than the Falcon 9 octaweb...

Two passes at Mars means orbital sunset/sunrise, which is something I would like to see but have never even seen photos of!