A funny story about how SpaceX dealt with clandestine toilet issues on the recent Micturation 4 flight. This kind of thing is SpaceX's kryptonite—if you look at what breaks on ISS, it's a slog of unglamorous maintenance issues with no cool engineering fixhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/science/spacex-toilet-nasa.html …
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If you're not obsessed with space, you may not realize that we lack the technology to keep a crew alive for a month with closed-loop life support on the front lawn of the Kennedy Space Center, let alone in any kind of harsh environment.
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The real story arc of Breaking Bad wasn't "high school chemistry teacher turns into the devil", but "self-funding research chemist designs and builds industrial scale pharmaceutical plant"
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I will be honest that my favorite scenario is where an elderly Musk retires to the small colony of a dozen obsessives eking out a living on Mars, and then that gets hit by the planet-killer asteroid.
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My question for the "Mars is plan B for humanity" crowd is, what's plan C? Unless you like blimps and acid rain, there's no other planet we can colonize to play dodgeball with planet-killing meteors. Why not just chart the solar system with robots and work the actual problem?
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Scaling is difficult: https://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Cambridge-Texts-Applied-Mathematics/dp/0521826578 … The unit cancelling and power-law arithmetic are easy enough but finding the critical insight, assumption, or approximation is needle-in-a-haystack hard.
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This is actually one of the exciting things (for me): what if we can develop safer automated chemical plants? It’s hard, but it could provide great benefit to Earth-based chemical plants.
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Or I might word it: some people who are energized to work on this tech to put people on Mars wouldn’t have the same drive to work on making better chemical process plants without it.
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