I dunno, his stale-bread playboy attitude made me enjoy the dog attack scene.

And it's a cold desert, with little precipitation and minimal non-glacial erosion. So they'll just last longer in a recognizable form.

For general reference; a 10 decibal increase in sound intensity is an apparent doubling of the loudness.

130 decibels is the human pain threshold. A lawn mower is around 90 decibels. A normal conversation is about 60 decibels.

You're thinking of Ozone, which will be synthesized via photochemistry and lightning once an atmosphere is in place.

Edit: we also produce it as a lower-atmosphere pollutant, so maybe we'll be good if we run a coal plant on Mars for a few centuries 🤷‍♂️

"Energy is finite" but Jupiter and Saturn are literally made of mostly Hydrogen. Even ignoring stellasers and solar sails, there's enough fusion fuel to last a long time, and more than enough for a continuous Kuiper belt mining operation.

All of those bits of life acting on their own require liquid water, a gaseous atmosphere, and a certain temperature range to exist.

So, if we find liquid water and a certain temperature range on another planet, it's more likely we'll find life there than on, say, the scorching hot/near absolute zero, radiation blasted vacuum of Mercury.

🤷‍♂️ nobody said it can't happen, we just have exactly zero evidence so far.

A solid chunk of the mars missions are dedicated to determining if life does/once could have inhabited the planet.

Unfortunately our sample size for life is one, so we look for eathlike planets in other star systems becauae that's the only type of place we DO know that life can occur.

Drake equation.

Take the probability of all of the variables that allow a planet like Earth to host life, and multiply.

Unfortunately, with a definite sample size of one, there's disputes tp be had about which variables to include, and depending on these you either get millions of inhabited technological planets in our galaxy or 1>x>0, which we know not to be the case, as it happened once.

THAT'S what that was!

Asian or European chickens?

Filling the air with fine particles just makes them explosive.

In most places, agricultural work for younger teens is really restricted, to lower-intensity stuff like berry and fruit picking.

It's functionally unplantable and literally goes dark for months of the year. The outposts are run off of diesel generators. Unless you either set up a nuclear plant or an entire oil/gas refining industry there (which will wreak havok on what fragile ecosystems there actually are) then there's not many avenues to do so with current technology.

It's not that we're 'not motivated' as much as 'motivated not to'.

They can fire anyone who refuses

You don't just say no to a congressional mandate written into your funding bill.

Yes, because the alternative was ignoring a direct order from Congress to do so.

"You were sure ready to shoot that armed home invader, huh?" This is what you sound like.

NASA didn't make the demand to reuse old shuttle parts and shuttle part suppliers.

If space were curved enough, and assuming we had impossible resolution telescopes, we could look out into the univers and see the back of our own heads however many billions of light years away.

However, space has only a very slight overall curvature.

This must be a great time to be an Egyptologist

Then an interpretation error on part of the translator; if it's being translated for an English-speaking audience, then they won't pick up on that cultural difference.

The Chelyabinsk meteor was 20m wide and we didn't detect that before it struck.

Lost redditor?

That seems like a reference to someone having their legs sticking into hell, to me.

Resetting complex bone fractures will probably always require it. You can't migitech a femur to heal properly when its in three pieces, each an inch apart and stabbed into the surrounding muscle.

I read a comment or something once from a chemical engineer who said that, of gasoline/petrol hadn't become ubiquitous a century ago, there's no way regular people would want to buy or handle it without tons of safety precautions.

It's toxic as shit and a flammable solvent.