Yes, there is a small glitch where it says ‘Apollo-Mir’ when it should be ‘Apollo-Soyuz’.
Anyway, this is shaping up to be a race between China and India.
how huge stars shed gas and dim towards the ends of their lives
Relatable.
The recent image of the star was snapped by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer
We need an interferometer based on a bunch of telescopes in earth’s orbit.
The ethics of a generation ship are pretty fucked up unless it’s the only hope of saving humanity. It basically amounts to the involuntary lifelong conscription of hundreds or thousands of as-yet-unborn people.
I hate to tell you, but you’re on a generation ship, hurling though space, right now!
Oh, and some assholes are messing with the life support systems.
Yeah, that is a stone-cold fact. And no one asked our permission to put us here, either.
To be fair, I can’t really blame my parents, though. They were as surprised as as I was.
Me mum had my sister, and then a miscarriage and the doctors told her that was it. Turned out they were wrong. And I never, ever wasn’t wanted or blamed for messing up their plans or anything.
Yeah, but this ship is big enough that any given crew member has a lot more say about how they choose to live their life. In fact this particular spaceship does just fine—better, even—with no human crew at all.
That seems to be a somewhat contradictory statement when I think it through.
Supposedly the original idea for the writers of Wall-E was going to be a little darker with respect to the humans onboard the Axiom. They were going to show how humans evolved over multiple generations of living in zero-G to be big gross blobs with no significant bone structure. But then they got worried about scaring off the audience and decided to depict humans as chubby and pampered todder-like people instead.
Basically what I’m saying is that planet earth supports human life, not the other way around. This gives us enough leeway in how we live our lives that countless generations of humanity lived and died without knowing they were on a rock traveling the vacuum of space. Even if we fuck everything up with nuclear war or something we probably won’t be able to wipe out life entirely.
If humans build a generation ship to travel to another solar system then every human aboard will have to spend their entire lives dedicated to the continued function of the ship. No room for layabouts or invalids, little flexibility in self-determination, very little chance of democracy. Inhabitants would be confined to a tiny volume many orders of magnitude smaller than the planet we evolved to live in. A pretty raw deal all around.
A wheelbarrow made with space-rated materials. Add some shovels and whatnot, and they could do some landscaping too.
So basically we’re living in Space Mutiny. Sounds about right.
Not the space elevator I ordered.
Also, it’s gonna fall over anyway.