Just out of curiosity are you writing this from the Fertile Crescent?

So making money in the stock market only works if the pie keeps on expanding? I think that’s a way to take advantage of the fact that our economy is expanding, but I don’t think that’s the definition of capitalism.

Two things:

1. Who says capitalism depends on infinite growth? I often hear that criticism, but I don’t see where it’s coming from? I’ve not heard a capitalist say this, only anti-capitalists. What is it about capitalism that requires this growth?

2. Can you name anything, anywhere, which exists without growing? Doesn’t even have to be alive, just asking for any phenomenon that just exists without growing.

So I guess it’s one point expressed two ways: “Requiring constant growth” is not a valid criticism of our current economic system.

We won’t have the ability to terraform Mars until we try to terraform Mars.

Perhaps Mars’s greatest contribution to our civilization wont be that it hosts cities or future life, but rather simply that it gave us a place to experiment so we could test things once before implementing them here.

Terraforming Mars will be a first step to terraforming Earth. We’ll attempt to create a new biosphere and that will help us understand how ours works.

We’re going to have a very tight window for gathering pristine samples of pre-colonized Mars.

Plants on Mars?

Theorists predict that a particular moss can survive on Mars. Scientists await the experimental opportunity to test that prediction.

Technically speaking it was low-G. None of Joachim Phoenix’s movies are strictly “zero-G”

Next time maybe they’ll shell out for The Clamp

We can pretty much assume whatever needs clamping’s less than 28” thick.

They’ve been waiting a while to use this stock image.

(duh)

— cat owner

So basically, any time a company lets people go that’s stealing, and you want there to be a court thing that judges whether any particular loss was due to mismanagement or “genuine misfortune”?

That seems like a pretty extreme response to high delivery fees don’t you think?

Making money by facilitating deals and delivery. Sounds to me like everybody wins.

Well-put. One perfect pattern at one scale, another perfect pattern at a different scale, and then there has to be a transition between them of optimal steps along the way. I like that.

That’s what she said 😏

No, suffering would be if it were always the same predictable pattern in everything all the time.

Until there’s a way to profit from space? There are already tons of ways to profit from space.

This makes me think Norman Rockwell must have done some physical labor in his life.

The posture of the blacksmith is just too perfect. It captures what it feels like to do something you’ve mastered.