an indian accent, in my mind.

I mean the thing that’s stopping us most at this point is the fear of getting accused of sexual harassment for wanting to put women (assuming OP is a woman) into relationships.

It’s not the lack of money that sucks so much as the lack of resources that goes along with lack of money.

no i meant more in the sense of: instead of the company not being allowed to profit, they can profit but 50% of the profit goes into the communal balance.

it would be easier to implement that because all you have to do is to order that 50% of the company shares go towards the city/municipality.

doesn’t seem to federate to discuss.tchncs.de yet?

Audit all supply chain companies.

In fact i would love it if big companies have to make their finances transparent.

Strong comic.

This, again, raises the question: Do we want to get higher wages? The obvious answer might seem “yes”. But i argue it’s not that obvious.

People should be able to live without being forced to work. When your only income is from wages, that effectively forces you to work. I think we should strive for a society where basic needs are fulfilled even without jobs.

That, in turn, raises the question of how to achieve this? What are the technical, legal, economic formulations for this? I have been considering of raising a wealth tax, but not on individuals, but on companies instead. The reason for this is mostly that it might be surprisingly difficult to assess the net wealth of individuals. Consider person A holds some shares in company B. When you’re trying to tax person A, you’re now faced with the difficult task of figuring out what the shares of company B are worth. That’s not always trivial to do, as not all companies are publicly traded. However, what if instead of charging $100 in taxes for $1000 worth in shares, the taxes are due in company shares directly? I.e. person A would have to give so-and-so many shares (10% of their possession) to the community. Through this mechanism, the “means of production” would literally become communal property. An interesting possibility.

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“point in this direction and fire the engines” becomes a pain because, say you’re constantly rolling, and you need to change the direction your long axis points. What thrusters do you fire in what combination to steer the ship? Or do you stop the roll, maneuver/use your telescope/dock/whatever, then start rolling again? So now you’ve got to deal with gravity starting and stopping variously throughout the journey.

according to the hohmann transfer orbit

you only do one burst at the beginning of the journey, then drift for 6 months before entering the atmosphere of the target planet to slow down.

So there’s 6 months where you don’t need to fire any engine. My plan is to first do the acceleration burn, then install solar panels on the outside of the ship (attach them via some kind of cord and cable) they fly outward due to centrifugal force so they get constant sun exposure, and then put the ship into rotation. So you don’t need to do any work on the outside anymore, until you’re shortly before landing, then you stop rotation, get in the solar panels, enter the atmosphere, do landing burn, and land.

yeah 200 mbar of oxygen should be fine, also 0.3g if we’re gonna land on mars eventually we might as well get used to the gravity level.

lol you’re right actually :p

How did bookwriting monasteries sustain themselves in the medieval ages?

I think that newspapers should be surprisingly similar to that.

like no. i never cared but also i’m not a normal person

people have different tastes. it’s routine that i find the women most attractive that others find most unattractive, and vice versa.

I did the calculation somewhere else in this thread, the outer walls of the spaceship (diameter 9m) would rotate with 24 km/h, so if you run really fast, you can outrun the rotation and start to float.

Edit: a healthy adult should be able to sprint 100 m in 15 seconds, which is precisely 24 km/h. Source.

although people can eventually adapt to higher rates after incremented, prolonged exposure

🤨️ we’re talking 6 months travel time here, what do they mean by “prolonged exposure”

actually i have been, and i have attributed it to the device not providing consistent centrifugal forces. instead, gravity interferes and makes it inconsistent. which would not happen on a spaceship.

I get your sentiment but that’s exactly why we need space colonization.

There is a thing called translatio imperii which means that empires aren’t created nor destroyed, they just move from one location to the next, always on the frontline of humanity.

If we don’t get spaceflight, the US will stay an imperial entity for eternity. Only if space colonization succeeds, mars can become the next empire which means that the US stops being one, interestingly.

Spaceflight creates jobs.

I think i understand why you feel that way, it happens to me constantly. Since there is already so much hype about this, you don’t need to hype it as well. Enough hype already.

Basically, there should always be attention on every launch, but it’s not necessary that everybody obsesses over every launch. Only that somebody does. Since so many eyes are watching this mission already, you don’t feel any need to spend your time on it as well.