Born Hunter
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Looks the part at least. Lovely.
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It is, and I've learnt something. Tides are essentially the surface water sloshing about unrestricted. Any fluid bodies deep beneath the surface are sort of 'contained' by rock. Be like trying to slosh beans about in the can, vs in a bowl.
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There is water below the ground (in the crust). f**k all compared to what is in the oceans. That is with the exception of this stuff in the mantle that Francie has talked about. But having now read up on it they really haven’t a firm answer on how much there is. This stuff they think they’ve found in the mantle is contained in the structure of the rocks. Even if these rocks enabled flow of the water they’d have to be virtually globally connected and sufficiently permeable to enable the water to flow fast enough to keep up with daily cycles. The oceans are pretty much unrestricted an
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Is there An Ocean Below Your Feet? SSEC.SI.EDU Some scientists think Earth's oceans formed when icy comets hit the planet... Fair one, so some scientists have theorised that there is based on various evidence. Seems very early to be saying with any certainty how much there is.
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Next to f**k all compared to what’s in the oceans. Google it. Do aquifers go below the crust and into the mantle? Either way. f**k all. Lol
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There’s next to no water under the crust. And yes, I’m sure. Lol
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Must be. Half the vehicles on the road are full size pickups. A hilux/ranger/nivara etc would be considered small.
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Last time I was in Texas it was 30 degrees Celsius in f***ing November! But everyone owns a tank for the commute so at least they are a little bit prepared. I don’t expect the roads to be cluttered with abandoned Yaris’ and Qashqui’s there.
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Cutting a leg off a spaniel to slow it down ain't a bad shout now you mention it!
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I'd just be reporting home with what I have learnt during my time living with the Earthers.... So yeah!
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Shroom would actually be a good choice due to not being particularly 'resource intensive'. Unfortunately I think his crew mates would throw him out the airlock after a month! "So I was f***ing this Martian bird with three tits right...." psssst-WOOOOOSH-psssst
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Watched it from my back yard. Overrated tbh!
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I've just got around to reading that.... You realise it goes against what you were saying about cancer deaths in astronauts? I quote, They observed no increased risk. In fact, they observed that the risk for astronauts was reduced compared to the average American. Understandably as they have been selected to be exceptional.
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Coincidentally (or maybe not) JPL's Perseverance Rover is scheduled to land on the Martian surface today.
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I don't know that it's impossible and there are a few ideas but it's so blue sky that it's impossible to answer.
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There's different types of radiation to be concerned about. You're focussing on electromagnetic. The article is talking specifically about particulate radiation. Both are consideration in space. Water is actually pretty good at stopping EM, it's why submarines are such c**ts to find or communicate with and ASW is all about sonar and not radar. BUT yes the volume of water required to stop EM is much more than dense stuff like lead or concrete etc.
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I think our steps towards becoming a space faring species will be reminiscent of our steps to becoming a sea faring species. Space will be treated very similar to the seas in terms of commerce and law I'd expect. How physical bodies are treated might be more like land and be reminiscent of imperialism but that's all some way away.
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We use a similar principle at work with neutrons. They interact most with hydrogen. So water is a better shield than lead. It's the other way around with gamma rays though. They tend to interact with electrons in varuous ways and electron density is roughly proportional to bulk density. Hence lead is better for gamma. It's a bit more complicated than all that of course. Radiation and radiation safety isn't really a simple case of 'common sense' unfortunately.
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Here's another big future potential space sector development. Earth to Earth cargo shipping! With the reusability of rockets, the development a super heavy cargo capacities, and other engine innovations bringing down costs, suddenly there's interest in shipping stuff around the world with rockets! The US military is particularly interested as they could put 100 tons of hardware on the other side of the globe in half an hour at similar costs to what a C5 could do it in like 24hours. Which has huge strategic implications for them. We have strategic airlift, sealift and quite likely in the n
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Just hit quote as many times as you want and delete the bits from the box you don't want.
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I think this subject is very diverse. I've talked about simply putting a man on Mars and brining him home all the way to colonising the entire system! LOL. I think permanent research facilities on the Moon and Mars are likely within the next 50 years. I think putting humans on Mars is possible within the decade given the rate of progress tbh. The big factor is how the space sector develops as that is what is driving the technology. The money is all in satellites right now. With the reusability of rockets driving down launch costs, the first human authorised rocket in the private sector la
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Yes exactly. I get that but I don't see it as unacceptably prohibitive. SpaceX is targeting a launch cost for their experimental Starship with a hundred ton cargo payload to LEO at a few million! That's LEO, not Mars but that's f***ing incredible! Bare in mind they are not the only player either. Competition is driving innovation and innovation is driving extreme cost saving. Yes of course there's increased cancer risk. But it's would be acceptable to a long list of people who would love to go. Like I said, I've read it to be estimated to be 5% right. Processed meat is ass
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But if you don't know how much material is needed to shield the ship how the hell can you say it makes it economically unviable? I get what you're saying and I haven't done all the research personally, I just trust the word of people who have. And I'm amazed at the advancements we're seeing in the past decade. Shits happening now in the space sector after decades of uninspiring stagnation. Unlike the race to the moon, it won't be the first person to step foot on Mars who's name is immortalised in history, it'll be the billionaire's that put them there! The already profitable space sector
