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BREAKING ๐จ: NASA's Perseverance rover has found organic matter in rock samples on Mars pic.twitter.com/B0ddjRKXnY
— Latest in space (@latestinspace) September 15, 2022
Lots of big brains in the comments:
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Some people just hate fun:
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If there is actually life on Mars it would indicate that life is incredibly common and not much of value was lost if we sterilized on one planet. On the other hand, as Mars is not very attractive for resources to begin with, we might just preserve it until we have thourougly researched it, just to quench our curiosity.
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Yeah Ironically the moon is way more atracctive for resources because of helium3
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Why do we need helium3?
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Good for fusion
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it would already be a reality if we spent 1% of all the money wasted on frivolous welfare programs on fusion instead.
a lot of very powerful people want to delay fusion for as long as possible, because it would ruin most energy companies, oil companies, etc..
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FTFY.
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Why don't we spend 1% of the money wasted on tax cuts on gassing the poor then we can spend 100% of the money spent on welfare on space
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Use the poor as energy fuel could be the new modest proposal
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Why not both, but primarily the former?
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de gustibus non est disputandum
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Corporatio delenda est.
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We should just
fuse all the fatties together. Two birds 
one stone.
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They brought back the director from the original helium and it's supposed to fix a lot of the plotholes in helium2.
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This is such a Reddit comment but it still made me laugh.
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this is such a reddit comment and it didn't make me laugh lmao ahaha just kidding
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My very limited understanding on the subject is that helium3 I an incredebly efficient source of fuel for interplanetary spaceships
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IF you figure out fusion
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Aim lazers at H3-molecule, hot stuf goes boom, eject boom from rear thrusters, there I solved it
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But how do you ensure that not too much stuff goes boom and the entire ship goes ka-boom?
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If make thing big boom no break thing.
Grug can into space
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FRICK YOU. I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOUR FRICKING DRAMA BULLSHIT. FRICK. OFF.
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As long as your fuel weighs less than around 1% the sun, a chain reaction will not happen
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Just dont use that much fuel??? What a stupid question ๐๐๐
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Then why can't be boil water that way yet?
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I mean we can boil a lot of water that way.... once
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We could bury a fusion bomb incredibly deep underground, blow it to make a huge cavern, then fill it with water and blow another fusion bomb to generate a frickton of high-pressure steam to run generators with. This process could be repeated.
Really though the issue is creating stable sustained fusion that puts out more energy than we put in. Researchers here in California led by Omar Hurricane achieved fusion ignition for the first time, creating a very brief self-sustaining reaction, so we're on the trail.
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So Doc Oc doesn't get it.
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It makes funny voice
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Heavier than normal helium so it's easier fusion fuel.
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helium 3 is a meme, it's spread evenly throughout the soil. you need to process like a million tons of soil to get a single ton of it.
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People used to say the same thing about gas in shale, we'll find a way - we're fricking smart
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No.
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unironically the moon isn't actually real and is just a space station
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The moon is the sun in drag
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Isn't mars full if it, just harder to mine?
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I have no idea
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It depends on whether itโs earth-based life or not. If it has a common ancestor with us, it could still be just an asteroid collision carrying over some microbe, which would be only weak evidence for widespread life in the universe.
But yes, if we found life that had independently emerged, that would be the most profound discovery humanity has ever made.
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There's a very big leap from "organic matter" to "life". Even more so if they meant 'organic" in a chemical
sense.
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Like wow, they found carbon. Who gives a shit
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If it were very similar to earth, it would arguably create more questions than it answers and should be preserved until we figure that out. And it would arguably be an even bigger discovery
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Argue my nuts, if they didnt find space rats its boring ๐
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thats a big leap
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Unless panspermia is true, it would be an incredible coincidence if the only two plants in a 100k lightyear radius with life would be neighbors.
Same on earth, really. Once the first explorers found life on Australia, it was rational to assume that the whole earth is teeming with it.
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If you can call what they do in Australia "lving"
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If that's true, we're certainly fricked. It means that the great filter is ahead of us, not behind.
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You have a pretty shit imagination
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The answer to the Great Filter is that there is none, we just don't see any other civilizations because we're among the first.
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That's a possible answer, yes
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Not necessarily. Intelligence and Cell Organelles are some good candidates too. Multicellular live in particular is a very strong candidate, afaik it took live 2 billion years to figure this out, so roughly two thirds of the time it was around.
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True. I should say "it's more likely were fricked."
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Or it will show that we share a common ancestor
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