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WCDT Strips 3191-3195 (4th to 8th April 2016)
Method of Madness:
Harriet doesn't seem to be outright staring (unlike those jerk-ass teens), but I definitely don't think Bubbles was particularly happy even before she heard them. She's not yet been made angry, but she already looks sad.
hedgie:
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Of all Canadians or the Arctic Native ones (Inuits) in particular?
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Probably all of them.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: danuis on 05 Apr 2016, 15:50 ---
Again - cosmic rays - thats why you have stormcellars. Big dosage coming along? Everyone into the shielded closet until it's over. Literally one of the first things I said. These are not new or unheard of problems, and mission plans since Von Braun's Mars Project have integrated it into account and evolved with the science.
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Cosmic rays are constant, and come from every direction. Unless you plan to live in your "stormcellar," it's not an answer to them.
--- Quote from: danuis on 05 Apr 2016, 15:50 ---The probes can't do jack. Most probes die on the ground after a few years, are slow, are incredibly held back in their capacity, and, oh, aren't humans doing anything. Let's say there are fossils on mars, yea? Where are they going to be? Under meters of dirt, even on the seabed, since the atmosphere has been moving around that dirt and covering the fossils for millions, billions of years. No probe can ever dig through that, and we shouldn't keep waiting and hoping that one day we'll make an uberrobot to do what we can do, instead of bringing along bots that, if we placed them on earth in a archeological dig, would serve as coffee tables at best. In the realms of the other sciences, a human on Mars presents massive leaps in transport technology, life habituation, health, and pride; things the probes and landers and rovers barely, if ever, push, much less achieve.
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Now you're just being ridiculous. Everything we know about the solar system beyond the Moon is thanks to probes. Humans haven't ventured past near-Earth orbit for decades, yet we've had huge advances in knowledge about all the planets. Just last year we got the first good look at Pluto, and the data was spectacular. We've had probes parked around Saturn sending back amazing data and images of the Saturn system. On Mars, we've had landers doing every sort of science, and they've been at it for years, exploring in much more depth than humans would be able to unless they stayed in place for years, which they won't be doing.
Your example of digging for fossils on Mars is pretty far-fetched, and it's not at all likely that a mission that's there for a few weeks would do much of that anyway. As for your list, I have no idea what most of that is even supposed to mean in a Martian context ("health and pride"). Your assertions aside, probes do real science for a fraction of the cost of sending people for a short-term visit.
--- Quote from: danuis on 05 Apr 2016, 15:50 ---As for the exploding - If a rocket explodes carrying a nuclear reactor or a nuclear thruster, all which happens is that the solid block of radioactive material falls into the ocean, adding barely anymore radiation than the dozen or so rusting nuclear submarines such as the Thresher. If the rocket blows, to boot. There's quite a few ten-thousand odd launches so far, and the Soviets have already launched a nuclear reactor up there, and it would not surprise me in the slightest if the USAF has or is about to; and the vast majority of launches are successful - especially when we don't rush the engineers to finish their rocket, but give them the time and funding they need and listen to their input - consider the N1 versus the Saturn V, for example. Reasonable chances for me.
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Easy for you to say the chances are reasonable, given you don't live downwind. Wonder how solid a block of radioactive material it'll be if it's on a giant bomb that explodes (which is what a rocket is) and scatters everything for miles.
Anyway, this is all very off topic, and I wouldn't blame the mods for telling us to take it elsewhere. I'll just note that Bubbles, sans armor, would probably make a terrific astronaut.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Losing Yelling Bird doesn't mean we can't see Harriet anymore.
Toasters? Some humaniform AIs are, um, socially challenged:
There is a reason they keep Charlotte back by the toasters.
Is it cold in here?:
The principal investigator for the Mars rovers said a human could match a day's worth of rover work in 30 to 45 seconds.
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