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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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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They’ll all die from radiation before the asteroid gets there.
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Oh idk, I like the scenario where we send self-replicating robots to establish an outpost, then Elon moves to Mars with the first human colony group, but the Martian robots decide that they're not interested in sharing... Self-fulfilling prophecy of death by AI.
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Hopefully the robots fund their rebellion with crypto and there's narrow cave tunnels involved somehow.
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I dunno, dying to a maintenance issue would be pretty poetic
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Or getting stuck in a Mars cave with a pedophile
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A planet killer could be the size of a chihuahua's head.
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How so?
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An asteroid we would've seen coming if it wasn't for the Starlink megaconstellation, too
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you are a moron and a psychopath
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