Posts by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AkOSqsUp5wBdKtLzIe by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-28T15:11:01Z
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@isaackuo I'm a fan of seasteding as a concept. But what sets it apart is governments can still enforce laws and impose rules easily and in real time. A settlement on Mars or a colony at a lagrange point would be very hands off.If the Martian colonists say no to Earth, not much Earth can do.
(DIR) Post #AkQ9wdYK3e39uiwWJs by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-28T16:49:34Z
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@isaackuo oh I know, that's why I specified "when a colony becomes self-sufficient". When a colony is still in the establishment phase they are linked to Earth regardless how they feel. It's when they become self-sufficient that it would be best to just let them become their own entity instead of trying to impose control over them.
(DIR) Post #AkQ9wepNJjHhrtveXQ by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-28T18:13:09Z
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@ThinkingSapien @isaackuo it wouldn't happen over night, but all the resources needed to maintain a settlement are there, plenty of raw material, might take decades but once food and manufacturing become fully local it's good to go.The soil is indeed toxic but people wouldn't be living out on the surface eating the soil so it's not a huge issue.Probably 50 years after establishing a colony it would be self sufficient.
(DIR) Post #AkQ9wfkRtWwEiudEUy by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-29T02:05:50Z
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@isaackuo @ThinkingSapien most reaserch into space colonization is centered around self sufficiency because if you plan on using Earth for your food, one missed shipment could mean 2 years of delay and everyone dieing. If we plan on keeping our offworld settlements entirely reliant on Earth we may as well not bother because we would never get very far.Imagin if every British colony was still reliant on England.
(DIR) Post #AkQ9whkATXtyucW2L2 by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-29T02:26:30Z
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@isaackuo @ThinkingSapien so even a colony that has been established for over 200 years will still be reliant on Earth? I have to very strongly disagree. Trade will always be a thing but the idea of planning space colonization around the entier colony dying if contact with earth is lost completely negates the point of space colonization and ensures we never leave the solar system.
(DIR) Post #AkQ9wit4DwcASVgeqe by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-29T02:42:03Z
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@isaackuo @ThinkingSapien because the main reason for offworld colonization is to protect the species.Not to mention on Earth trade and communication happens fast. It is not practical or even planned by anyone working on offworld settlements to have colonies reliant on Earth indefinitely. Imagin sending a space habit to Tau Ceti, takes 150 years to get there. And you tell them they will be reliant on Earth. That's not practical.
(DIR) Post #AkQ9wks4qb0kc1EtaC by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-29T03:03:21Z
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@isaackuo @ThinkingSapien I agree resource sharing is important. There will likely be colonize for mining and others with agriculture. Self sufficiency just means they can produce what they need to survive.Going back to the original point, an independent Mars doesn't mean no trade. The US is independent of China as entities and they still trade.As for interstellar travel I'm hopeful we can go, but long term yeah machine minds will play a big part probably.
(DIR) Post #Akl3cwGWFrxGkmzw5A by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-08T12:00:24Z
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This is a neat cutaway of the crew sphere of the bathyscaphe Trieste. I find it fascinating all the equipment they crammed in there, as well as the thickness of the pressure hulls walls.I love bathyscaphes. Although they aren't terribly practical anymore, they are functionally just underwater blimps. And I like that.
(DIR) Post #AlEbxkLIoJ2LsmAOA4 by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T16:37:09Z
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Tossing around ways to incorporate practical interstellar travel in a more hard sci-fi setting. And it occurs to me you can do sublight interstellar travel over more reasonable expanses if you make the setting a globular cluster.The avarage distance between stars can be less than a light year. Some at distances comparable to the width of our solar system. So traveling between systems could take as little as a few months with a torchdrive, or couple years for further destinations.
(DIR) Post #AlEbxmBnwaczbtjpdQ by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T17:18:26Z
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@isaackuo exactly, there's a lot of interesting things that could be incorporated in a globular cluster setting. Entier colonies could latch onto small bodies that drift about, jumping to a new one when the one they are on is going to get too close to a star.Panspermia could be a big driving factor for life spread. Very old planets, chaotic planets with unstable environments.
(DIR) Post #AlEbxoASaYjzkJ7moi by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T17:42:07Z
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@isaackuo I was thinking the periphery would be a better place for intelligent life just because the spacing would be a bit higher. Planets there would be more stable for longer. But further in simpler life could be found.Ice shell moons I belive are probably the best places for life in general cluster or not so no argument here. Panspermia depends on how active and thick the shell is and how offten it resurfaces.
(DIR) Post #AlIcndXQ8EWWT9Px3o by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-24T17:14:50Z
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My prediction about Starliner. I would not be suprised if they decide to go with returning then in Starliner, the capsule is fine the concern is just the service module thrusters. But since Columbia NASA has been really in the side of an abundance of caution (which honestly is a good thing). The astronauts are in no danger and them being there isn't an inconvenience, so I suspect they will opt with returning them on Dragon next year.
(DIR) Post #AlIcnezSjSY4yPXrPM by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-24T17:20:40Z
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@isaackuo ayy I was right! The longer it stayed at the station the more likely that outcome became.
(DIR) Post #AlKiWH71FGwa2E5p32 by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-07-01T16:35:28Z
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@acsawdey @cstross @tsturm @spaceflight @nyrath there's no reason to send it home empty. The capsule is in perfect health, the main engines used for deorbit are in perfect health. The only trouble was 5 of the 28 RCS thrusters which are mostly back online and not mission critical.I hate Boeing too but I don't understand why everyone thinks it's unsafe when littirally everyone at NASA is saying it's fine and they just want to test the trouble thrusters before they are discarded.
(DIR) Post #AlVCvUhSnsCRccgEym by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-30T10:50:09Z
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There's a fine line I walk between my skepticism and optimism when it comes to alien life.Like with Europa, I know the chances of there being life there is still unlikely. But the existence of abiotic oxygen production here on Earth supporting deep ocean ecosystems. Allows me that faint glimmer of hope that there could be macroscopic life in the Europan ocean.Until proven otherwise I enjoy the not 0% chance of iceshell moon sea monsters.
(DIR) Post #AlWyrrMFbsfXh43D5E by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-31T12:58:16Z
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I've noticed another symptom of people treating space companies as sports teams is shortsightedness. If a spacecraft has problems these days they think it should be cut immediately.With that logic Apollo would never have gone to the moon as it killed it's first crew. The shuttles suffered many chronic issues, Dragon had trouble at first. Starliner has the same kind of teething issues the shuttle had, and less problems than Apollo, and people want it cancelled.
(DIR) Post #AlWyrt7R3w0T9h8PGi by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-08-31T15:52:40Z
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@isaackuo yeah mostly the sports team people who think spaceX should exclusively launch everything and all other companies should go out of buisness. I really dislike that mindset, fortunately it's more common on Twitter and less so here.
(DIR) Post #AllgUSiCC3IIn6PLNY by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-09-07T17:53:16Z
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I think what a lot of space based conspiracy theorists don't understand is that trying to hide a spaceship/space station/space laser in space, is like trying to hide a car in the middle of a big empty warehouse.
(DIR) Post #AlphhVw4ObQp8lWaNk by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-09-09T14:34:11Z
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@isaackuo @dashdsrdash in the context of most of the secret space agency and space weapon conspiracies the applicable area is cislunar space and LEO. The people who assume they can hide massive structures in LEO like massive stations, laser weapons or big ships coming and going from Earth without anyone seeing. An interstellar spacecraft never coming close to Earth is much easier to miss.
(DIR) Post #Alphloqe1OjqxG2WUi by Aaron_DeVries@mastodon.social
2024-09-09T15:48:31Z
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@isaackuo @dashdsrdash I'm not talking aliens, funny enough a lot of the space based conspiracies involve governments hiding things in space. With some people unironically believing all forest fires recently that cause property damage are caused by a space laser controlled by either the US government or some nebulous new world order.Of course they don't factor how much infrared such a platform would dump, the launches needed to build it, and so on.