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A friend and I laid out on my parents' lawn all night looking up at the stars. We were contemplating infinity.  The only concern I really have about Musk's project is, what will it do to his stock price?

Waay back when from the midwest - and there the term was used for anyone that would immediately spout a passage from the bible whenever you were doing something they did not like - or that they REALLY wanted to do themselves.....

We watched the alternate halftime show on Turning Point USA. Later watched parts (fast forwarded) of the recordeded NFL show. What a slap in the face to America and Americans. I've boycotted the NFL since Colin Kaeperncik, but I had to watch the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Perhaps I need to continue my boycott now. The TPUSA show was a whole bunch better.

"a single cracked habitat window means everyone inside is dead in about 90 seconds."
QED: No windows. Lots of sealed pressure-proofed compartments below ground level.

He's going after the regolith ..... Helium 3. Cold Fusion Reaction Power Generation.
Direct electric power without steam generators.

Commifornia's laws are crazy for everyone.
Regardless of what I think about the insanity of a relatively mediocre player
being paid $35 million a year, the players should have tax advisers on how
to structure their contracts so Commifornia and all the other commie states
(e.g., NY, MA, IL, and the USA) have very little to tax.
(My response to the insanity is to boycott everything the NFL does.)

Micronovae occur only on white dwarf stars—the dense, "dead" cores of stars that have already run out of fuel. Our Sun is currently a "main sequence" star and won't become a white dwarf for another 5 billion years.

A 1% variance is 120 years on the scale of 12,000 years.
Current "science" has proven to be much less accurate than that (albeit often there is a hidden agenda.;^)
They are just making a guess based on data that has not been proven. There is no data on how the poles
moved in the past. So they could slow down, reverse direction, or speed up. There is no data to make an
accurate prediction on that as far as I have seen.
They are just making a guess based on the best "available" data and that data is unproven.
There are too many assumptions based on unproven data, imo.
That said, imo, the only hope for human civilization is if their guesses are off by at least 100-200 years and
that technology advances make it possible to make better prediction and to protect the earth if needed.

Everything now indicates a 20y timeline unless by some miracle, the poles stop moving. I'm sure if the majority of mankind understood, the would appreciate that if it happened.

Know some talented actuaries and have tried to determine a +/- years into the galactic current sheet from one trip around the galaxy to another but can't seem to get a consistent set of data points.
My premise is that there might be variability in how and when our solar system encounters the waves of the current sheet. I would not expect each time around producing the same exact encounter..

At least Mars has an extra 50 million miles to dissipate the effect of the blast,
cheap real estate, no taxes, and no governmental interference to speak of.
Could be that the blast is 100+ years away and underground Mars settlement
might be realized in time.

... (and China the coal import kings.)

Q: What do you do when you have $100 billion to invest and every earthside government wants to steal from you?
A: Use your assets (and the assets the government stole from others) and go to a locale that has less government intervention for a while.

You know, I've never met a "Bible Thumper". I am around Christians or Christian like people but never a "Bible Thumper".
Must be a Mid West Thing . . .

Keep envisioning a thumping monster in a si fi flick, Betcha Dino could find a thumping monster from the past.

God bless and take care, NealS. Agent orange took two of my friends. RIP Ron and Mike. Quick story: When I had my 5-way heart bypass op there were some bad complications with heart speed regulation. Four days later, after a failed attempt to get it under control I was wheeled out of the OR and left in the hallway for a moment. I was laying on the gurney looking up at the lights on the ceiling thinking I was going to die in less than 24 hours. Ron walked up to me, crossed his arms and said very calmly, "Not yet". Then he chuckled and walked away. Ron was "called home" 12 years prior, but I could see him and hear him right next to me. All my anxiety went away and as you can see I'm writing this today and I'm feeling very good for an old guy.

Again, God bless and take care, NealS! Agent orange was bad stuff!

I do not see this as value for money.

But, sure beats decarbonization at a higher cost which has achieved de-industrialization - except for the US with Trump!

I'm not joining either but will support one:

a) far right bible thumping gun owners
b) barbarian wokist violent destroyers.

a) It is.

Less fraud there.

Took me a sec to get the third panel in the first set, but that's rich. The look on Hillary's face says it all.
Reminds me of something someone said once: Getting married is like getting a subscription to Playboy. The first month, you run to the mailbox and open up the plastic wrapper and go straight to the centerfold-- Miss April 1986!
The next month, you run to the mailbox, tear the wrapper open again, and go straight to the centerfold; Miss April1986!!
Whaa?
Forty years later:
Hey another issue.
Yep, Miss April 1986.
I'm going to take her to a tractor pull for our anniversary.
Think I'm doing too much?

The moon and Mars for that matter, along with all the other planets will be devastatingly affected by the solar micro nova. Don't know if the moon or mars has a meaningful magnetic field, maybe one can be created but the Blast and impactors from the event will be a killer.

You Also did really good Kat . . . you'll get your well deserved Hug one day.

You did Good Kid . . .

How you feel should soon end when Mr. Sun warmly smiles down upon you.
I may soon feel better. Made an appointment with my family doctor. Hoping for a shot of antibiotics tomorrow.

It's still working its way in here, but the rest of the week looks very promising. It will take a few warm days to remove more than 10" of snow, if it melts before the next freeze. I am a mite bitchy right now, too long housebound ;:)

it is the worst of times it is the best of time

funny stuff

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