ElHexo

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[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Wow, it really is. In that vein, here's OP's message sender reading this thread:

frothingfash

Edit: it is not as comically large

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 80 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Oh look, a scratched LIB

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

P-21-0144 through 0150, P-21-0152 through, and P-21-0160 through 0163

The chemical name is for one of these is

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Michael Stanley Regan (born August 6, 1976) is an American environmental regulator. He has been serving as the 16th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency since March 11, 2021.

Regan lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Melvina, and son, Matthew. Their first-born son, Michael Stanley Regan, Jr. ("MJ") died on August 16, 2012 from stage IV high-risk neuroblastoma at the age of one.

this-is-fine

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Incredibly meaningless

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We've been deorbiting humans for half a century, it's presumably easier for toasters.

The real challenge is speeding things up to escape the gravity, not nearly as easy compared to slowing them down. You'd need to launch an astonishing amount lot of equipment to offworld power production, which is why you'd develop a space industry in the first place.

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Run some ultrahigh voltage DC power lines with it and have a hemisphere wide electric grid

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Offworlding all industry?

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The former already exists, but our knowledge of biology and medicine is still very, very poor.

You'd need to massively increase the investment in and workforce for basic science first

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Both are orders of magnitude more difficult than housing an equivalent population in space habitats

Though at least with Venus, with a big enough solar shade you could freeze the atmosphere and fling the CO2 into space

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