Wichita, KS.Hovering around $2.99 right now

My go-to is to just beg them to play Kerbal Space Program

They argue that, if the moon landing could be done way back then, with modern technology, it should be possible to quickly get back to the moon.

In the 1960s, getting to the moon was the most important thing in the solar system. The Soviet Union and the US spent ungodly amounts of money and risked uncountable lives in this endeavor. We did the thing, and now we’ve done the thing. We aren’t willing to risk those lives or spend that money anymore. New missions have to be much, much cheaper and much, much safer.

Technology has definitely improved, but there is a physical limit to the amount of energy that you can pull out of a given mass of kerosene and liquid oxygen. Getting to space hasn’t gotten any lighter, and fuel mass has always been the biggest hurdle. Again, play KSP. It will brand the tyranny of the rocket equation into your soul.

They also argue NASA could have just reused the same designs as the Apollo missions if they actually went to the moon.

They could, in the same way that we could start sending children underground to mine for coal again

To summarise,

a) Been there, done that. Anything new will involve sending more mass than the Apollo missions had to deal with. Tyranny of the rocket equation: more mass means more fuel means more thrusters means more mass means more fuel…

b) I could do some research and come back, but there is no answer to this that will satisfy a moon landing denier, because any explanation would require a baseline understanding of chemistry and also trust in the institutions that examine these moon rocks.

c) The answer to a also applies here

If you think you have a point to make, don’t couch it in “devil’s advocate” bullshit. There were indeed huge chunks of ice being thrown. Blood were drawn. The cops are still the bastards in this situation, and I pray that nobody gets convicted

Negligable - but for fruit trees, a fertiliser.

Mmm, nitrogen

Prophylactic feet pissing is now my favorite phrase in the English language

There was a whole community about that back on the other website. We should get a sink pissers community going on Lemmy

There are two kinds of people on earth: those who admit they pee in the shower, and fucking liars

If ghosts were real, then I can think of a few people throughout history who would have been swarmed by them. Adolf Hitler would have approximately 13 million spirits haunting him by the end. Something like 100,000,000,000 humans have ever lived, and somehow all the ghosts are from culturally relevant time frames? For all the US civil war ghosts people have seen, you’d think there’d be orders of magnitude more native Americans haunting this place. Did the European colonists just make sure to let the Indigenous peoples finish all their business before hunting them to near extinction?

Thankfully boring. Empty wrecked SUV blocking some side street at like 4:00 am. It was a Saturday with a bunch of shootings and fights, so it took them like 20 minutes to send someone out to check on it.

I do wish I had asked to be updated with info about it. Was it stolen? Is the driver OK? No idea

My dog’s hair is going grey. I blame vaccines

54% of us read at a 6th grade level. You do not hate your neighbors to the south nearly enough

That’s generally how it works if your dog or cat (or squirrel) bites someone. Unless you can provide proof of a current vaccination, the animal has to get tested for rabies. This involves getting a sample of brain tissue. For pet owners that seems excessive, but for someone who has seen a rabies infection first-hand, there is no animal valuable enough to skip that test

There’s actually been around 20 known rabies survivors. It’s a lot more survivable than you think! Of course 20×1 is still only 20, so I’ll still avoid petting any raccoons

+1 for AdGuard DNS. Using apps without it is a damn nightmare. Almost thought my phone had some kind of virus the other day when I temporarily turned it off and then opened mapquest

Veganism isn’t an organization with strict rules and regulations. There is no one definition of veganism. My evidence is the fact that nearly every vegan cites consent as one of the primary factors behind their decision to be vegan.

Edit: but hey here’s an article on their site mentioning it.

Veganism is about neither using nor abusing non-humans, who all have a right to life and freedom. These animals cannot consent to being raised for milk and meat. Whatever conditions we keep them in, farming them is always an abuse of power.

I’ve had this literal exact argument with you before. Glad to see you’re still committed to having the worst possible takes

Vegans aren’t just vegan, they’re vegan for a reason, and that reason is almost universally an issue of consent

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Just be sure you know the difference between editions. 5e.tools is for the new 5e rules, and 2014.5e.tools is for the real ones

2014.5e.tools for dnd resources

www.cleardarksky.com/csk for deciding whether to go to the observatory this weekend

Gotcha, I misread your comment. I guess if immortality is not optional, I can see the appeal of at least seeing what happens to human who makes it to that unfathomable age