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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humanity has many apocalyptic scale threats. doing thing 1 to help mitigate risks A,B,C doesnt mean we cant ALSO do things 2,3,4 to mitigate risks C,D,E. Musk & his cos are making huge concrete steps to help humanity mitigate some risks. criticizing them for not helping all is...
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There is no threat to humanity mitigated by Mars wank.
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I think our 2 biggest most urgent apoc-level risks are the carbon/climate/ecosystem crisis, and the risk of democratic collapse via overwhelming adversarial propaganda and political bribery by rich authoritarians. and the latter increases chance of former, and former the latter
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There's also the moon as plan 2B. Extra cool points if you somehow use massive nukes to launch it out of Earth orbit and travel through space on an awesome grand tour (cf "Space: 1999").
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(I suppose a better name would be Plan 1B sorry. The two hardest problems etc)
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the best part is that the existing billion dollar Mars robot cannot reliably Place Rock In Tube but the next one is expected to build an entire apartment complex underground and then hook up the plumbing and Comcast for several hundred people while unattended. K
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As long as there's no tube a rock has to be put in the plan will work!
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O'Neill Cylinders. I actually suspect starting with O'Neill Cylinders would be easier than trying to deal with that unterraformed Mars weather. Plus all that experience keeping the ISS running would be more applicable.
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