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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
      Replying to @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk

      I'm not a nihilist. I literally have never identified as a nihilist. (I'm religious.) if any sum of money above fifty million dollars is going to be spent, I want it to be put towards making human being's lives better. putting robots on Mars doesn't. It's a very expensive hobby.

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    2. phyphor‏ @phyphor Feb 18
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @BAlyssaHauk

      Just because you don't see that there can be benefits to human lives doesn't mean there aren't any. Why are you so adamant that it is worthless but buying a PS5 isn't?

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    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
      Replying to @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk

      If there's benefits to human lives to putting rovers on Mars then fucking name one, stop this circuitous argument about "then why not eat protein gruel and till soil?"

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk

      I should point out at this point that while nothing about Perseverance is anything other than blue-sky, non-applied research at this point, it's not just "taking pictures of Mars" for its own sake It's specifically NASA doing a big life sciences project

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      They're investigating the Jezero crater, which is believed to be a dried-up ancient seabed and the most likely place Martian microbial life could've existed if anywhere The goal is to try to discover extraterrestrial life for the first time, if possible

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      There's a lot of possible "side effects" that branch off from that, if anything comes of it In order to be recognizable as life, any Mars microbes would have to be *similar* to "life as we know it", but it is very unlikely they would be *identical* to life as we know it

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      The outside chance that we could discover a new kind of macromolecule that works similarly to Earth proteins but using a different "library" of monomers than our 20 amino acids would be a big deal So would discovering something similar-but-different to the "language" of DNA/RNA

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      Insight into abiogenesis (how do you make life from non-life at the initial bootstrap stage), which we're arguably more likely to get on Mars than Earth, where life was so successful it completely consumed and destroyed any trace of its earliest origins That kind of thing

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      Is it going to give us the cure for cancer anytime soon? No But the whole argument of pure scientists that we should keep them around is we don't know what we don't know yet until we go looking

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      And, in particular, when trying to invent new stuff to build, nature often surprises us with ideas/inspiration by throwing examples at us that we didn't have the imagination to invent from whole cloth

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

      Which is why many still argue it's more profitable to go looking for "cures for cancer" (or whatever else) by searching for novel organic compounds made by existing organisms in the Amazon, rather than having a computer simulation try to invent them by trial and error

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          And why letting thousands of unknown species go extinct every year could have immediate practical consequences beyond the aesthetic/moral consideration of living on a less diverse planet and feeling bad about it

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        3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @phyphor @BAlyssaHauk

          I mean I'm not entirely sure what the good is of finding traces of life on Mars unless it helps us finally strip churches of their tax-exempt status and at this twilight stage of human civilization, even that would be a Pyrrhic victory at best

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