I’m just worried it’s going to be expensive to keep the atmo replenished

My understanding is that solar winds stripping your atmo is so slow it’s a problem on the scale of millions of years

Let me check a source

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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-mission-reveals-speed-of-solar-wind-stripping-martian-atmosphere/

Okay 21k lb during an earth day does seem like a lot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaratia_spinosa

My understanding is starlink won’t contribute to the kessler syndrome because they are in low Earth orbit. They routinely fall back down to Earth so they don’t contribute to much space junk

There are other potential issues with that, though. Just not space junk

scientists sequenced DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers, they did not find the bacteria that causes those diseases.

Instead, the results revealed the presence of “previously unsuspected pathogens” that suggest paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever were major killers during the mad rush from Moscow

https://xkcd.com/2501/

I started playing games in the 2000s and bought one old game where the default was inverted controls

Trying to play that game broke my brain. I don’t remember if I eventually realized it was a setting I could turn off

It was trying to be hard sci-fi but… It’s still a bit magical

The book The Quantum Magician makes this mistake

The protagonist has a quantum brain and to use it they have to turn off their consciousness in order to not collapse the superposition. I face palmed whenever they mentioned it

That’s not metric time

This is metric time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby

If we stop producing forever chemicals they’ll slowly sequester themselves

Heck yeah, this content is my shit

Muk Schumer*

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8nHaelWtc

Are all those black dots ticks?

Putting new meaning to Hoof Beats

Look I get you but points at gums I need dentures

The good news is we eradicated them in America before and we should be able to do it again

It will require a big investment and lots of coordination, though

I’ve been dealing with dry eye and they’ve gone a little crazy on my eyes. My eye doctor actually had to give me eye drops to clear them up a bit

The little crusties you get when you sleep. Got so bad that I couldn’t open my eyes in the morning

Since taking eye drops to clear out the demodex and doing a bunch of eye hygiene, I now have almost no crusties in the morning