
ALT Elon Musk, September 7 2024: The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will grow exponentially from there, with the goal of building a self-sustaining city in about 20 years. Being multiplanetary will vastly increase the probable lifespan of consciousness, as we will no longer have all our eggs, literally and metabolically, on one planet. Quote Elon Musk @elonmusk · Sep 7, 2024 SpaceX created the first fully reusable rocket stage and, much more importantly, made the reuse economically viable. Making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost per ton to Mars problem.

ALT The control reaction is unusually flat If the control reaction is very flat (le. low reaction efficiency), it means that something has disturbed (inhibited) the reaction. The result is still valid, however, sensitivity might be reduced. See above for potential causes. Repeat the test for optimal sensitivity.

ALT Molly: Ha ha! Did you ever notice how McSweeny's kind of approaches humor with like a lab coat and a pair of tweezers? Beef: Hee hee yeah they really are uncomfortable around the stuff Molly: It's like they don't really know where they belong given all the writing that's come before them, so they just rip off old New Yorker pieces! Beef: I know it's like they're just playing among the ruins of a once-great literary culture that is no longer relevant and struggles for justification!

ALT Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt reposted Double Down News @DoubleDownNews · 1h “Hitler was a socialist like North Korea is democratic. Whilst Hitler was alive I don’t think anybody referred to him as left wing. Why did that change and how? People on the right want to disavow the obvious direction their ideas are coming from.” Rest in Power David Graeber









