this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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[–] ColonelKataffy@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they'd be fine; they're billionaires. they'll bootstrap themselves back to earth just like matt damon

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

In the book/movie it required a lot of help from China so if it happened irl it would be super funny if China was like "lol no"

[–] ProgAimerGirl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

you see, billionaires are perfectly reasonable and completely tolerant of the idea of eating a potato they grew with their own shit, if said shit potato was the only food source available for hundreds of millions of miles, they're just normal people, like you or me, you see?

[–] context@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

astronaut-2 desperation doesn't necessarily breed sufficient ingenuity to overcome the fact that mars is completely inhospitable to human existence?

astronaut-1 stop using up our precious few minutes of oxygen remaining and start ingenuiting

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be funnier if they had a full-on Total Recall decompression problem

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

turns out elons gamer space suits dont work lol

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

The RGB lighting shorts out the life support

I would happily make them a little richer by buying a pay per view of them fighting over the last scraps of food and suffocate on Mars.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

crazy that NASA was telling the truth about this whole planet being a desert

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

We need Gundam style orbital colonies, not rich nerds playing spaceman. We don't need either I guess, but oribital colonies would be cool as hell and we could have wars with then and stuff

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It's the Fyre Festival but worse. They're on a rock hostile to life that's 140 miles away from everything.