Heh, well I can make it worse, prepare to be judged!

Soda is for suckers. It’s just extremely overpriced sugar water and it’s basically a direct route to diabetes town. Also enjoy all the extra dental work you’ll require.

Weirdly, I’m not against alcohol. While drinking a lot isn’t a great idea either, I do understand the appeal of alcohol. I still try not to buy it in bars or restaurants though, the 5x mark up has always felt unreasonable.

Uh… If you insist, then four space indent. There is no “two space” indent.

But just use tab. Ugh… Monsters…

I’ve got a couple of 23 year old homeless people living with me now. They just need a couple months to find a place for themselves, that’s what they said a year and a half ago when they moved in. I’m trying to help them out, but they really can’t stay here forever.

Also one of them is my daughter.

Water from non-Earth sources might contain dissolved minerals at poisonous levels for agriculture, much less human consumption.

Oh yeah, it’s practically guaranteed to contain nasty stuff! We’re gonna drink it anyway though.

Most of that water on earth that we’d consider “not useful” would fall into the “100% useful” category if found in space. As long as the contaminants have a different boiling temperature from water, you can always boil the water into steam in order to separate it. Or you could also use electrolysis to separate out the hydrogen and oxygen and then recombine then in clean tanks.

These are expensive methods of purification, energy intensive, but solar panels really well with no atmosphere and 24/7 sun exposure, so this is all feasible.

Nice reference!

Oh man, I fell apart with that line…

One 1/4 family at a time

Seriously, I’m still chuckling

Entirely possible. But hey, in a space station you could have a separate agriculture ring, it may turn out that plants grow most efficiently at some particular amount of gravity, having its own ring would let you experiment, to maximize yield. Also you can use shades and mirrors to precisely control the amount of sun the plants get, even provide them constant sun if that speeds up growth.

That’s true. Local water, even as trace ice crystals, would be easier to harvest than chipping apart a comet in deep zero g. But ultimately, your materials for both construction and life support are going to have to start coming from space, and asteroids and comets are the obvious choice.

The best strategy would probably be to send a relatively small vehicle to the comet (small relative to the comet), something like the power and propulsion core for the new lunar gateway, essentially just a big ion thruster with a bunch of solar panels. This can push the comet into an orbit that swings it by the moon to capture it into an earth orbit. You may need to do some earth flybys to lower the comet’s orbit first, so the mission could take years. But to make up for that, comets are huge, and after it’s done you have a source of many different materials to work with right here in earth orbit, enough material to last decades or more.

You’re totally right, but that gravity, that green stuff, neither of those are on Mars. In orbit at least you get the gravity, rotating habitats aren’t that much more complicated than static ones.

I’m not sure if Mars’ poison and irradiated soil will ever be useful for growing plants. I’m telling you while it is a similarly sized planet, it’s still barely useful.

I’m a space nut, and people often ask me about colonizing Mars. And I always think, sure I guess you could, but why? Once you’ve made it to orbit, make the most of it, why put yourself down at the bottom of a gravity well? Just colonize orbit, asteroids, or small moons. That’s where the resources are, and that’s where it’s easy to move them.

Sounds like you’re doing a lot of steaming!

As a man, I have never gotten any shit for sewing. But I do give plenty of people shit for not sewing.

Fix your clothes people, a needle and thread are not that freaking complicated. You don’t need to learn how to use it, just push the needle through the fabric, you’ll figure it out.

Sure, with practice you can make it prettier, but whatever.

What a coincidence! This is my favorite hill to troll people on!

It’s absolutely meaningless, it just doesn’t matter, and people are sooo opinionated about it!

“Well it can’t get any worse” And “Well, you gotta do something”

The first is almost always dead wrong. Trust me, you can make anything worse.

As for the second, it’s shockingly coming that in a given scenario, the best action is to not do anything different at all. It may seem like things are bad and something has to change, but changing your strategy at this point can still definitely make things worse. Sometimes inaction is the correct action.

I have a triangular file I use for sharpening all my saws, super useful. I have some old saws.

Well the good news is that we do have some ballistic missile defence in place. The bad news is that we don’t really have enough of it. We could probably shoot down a couple hundred nukes… I’m highly doubtful that we could shoot every nuke out of the sky, if Russia decided to unleash everything they had.

I think you just angered Ares. I hope you have the right boons to take him down!

It looks like that was chapter 33, Trisolaris: Sophon

If you want to jump in and read that chapter, all you need to know is this:

!the aliens are on a planet in the alpha centuri/proxima centuri trinary star system, the closest stars to the sun. Also, apparently the three suns means it sucks there and they’re desperately looking for a new star system.!<

Sarcasm doesn’t work well over the Internet, that’s my bad.

My point was that saying Mein Kampf is borderline unreadable, isn’t exactly stepping out on a limb or anything…

I’ll bet Satan’s Truth Social feed is pretty hard to read too.

I was joking. Because saying “ya know, I just didn’t care for that book that Adolf Hitler wrote” is just like, well yeah….