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Stay in Oregon. Seems like the only folks who want to tear down our historical treasures have never bothered to visit them. Most don't even live in WA. Take local control of your community and the good things in it. There will always be outsiders who want to burn it down.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket: for 128M you get twice the lift of the Space Shuttle. You could probably do the proposed trip for the cost of the Cassini probe - 3 billion or so. Space comes cheaper these days with so many off the shelf components. Plus, what a reality show. No space walks, though; no spacesuits. Ya fix it from the inside or not at all. I wouldn't laugh it off. They have a tight window though: a low fuel trajectory like 2018 only comes around every 15 years.

Holy shit, a 2.6 m cube. That's one SMALL bedroom. The plan is to send a married couple. Free divorce services enroute?

The private 2018 trip does not propose to land on Mars, just swing round it and head right back home.

Ban shrooms, though. No need to increase paranoia risk above the risk that the crew actually wakes up to what's most likely in store for them. Actually, though, they can probably make it fine. One Russki's already spent a total of 801 days in space, 437 days in one go, so the 501 days isn't such a huge leap. The Mars500 crew of six spent 520 days couped up together on earth - but the living space was 3x what these guys would have on this trip. If you don't land the navigation is straightforward and the fuel requirement is low. Stick a booster onto a couple of Destiny ISS modules and blast the fuck off. If you're gonna stuff 6 guys into one of these things

Such a voyage requires sacrifice. LSD Sunday Morning Services Only. Talk to the Reverend. The largest Atlas payload is 5 m in diameter. Basically, you're sealed in a 2 story bedroom for 501 days with your crew mates. I suppose every now and then you could crawl around the outside for a change of scenery. I would think enormous amounts of vaporization would be essential to crew survival. The garden would likely be the crew's number one priority during cruise phase. I guess these guys are just gonna take the rads like real men. They're DNA's gonna look like swiss cheese.

I was being chased by a guy with a knife, actually. I free fell about 20 feet before sticking the landing with my left leg, which polevaulted the rest of me downslope another 80 ft or so in a most confusing fashion. The only thing that kept Josh from following me over was my trap door act. No matter how careful you are, zero viz iz what it iz. The ski down wasn't too bad. My ski bases got it worse than I did.

The feathered bangs and scrotee have already pegged my hate meter. He did apologize for being a moron - which is further than most tea scroters would go.

READ THE CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!!!

What I emit while biking would kill his whole family.

My injury was due to skiing off a cornice in a white out, so no shark attack story necessary.

Only if John Frieh bathes with me.

I'm 3D printing a singularity.

Ya blow up a comet and this is what happens.

If I could bring anything on a plane it would be another person.

If he had only been armed, he coulda shot that drone down Patton style.

He shoulda stuck to that diet.

Antiquing, Rob. Verb up.

Didn't they rap from an airliner over central Oregon or something?

Fuck. You can live in my basement, then. The kids will have to be sent away to boarding schools in the Philippines.

Why don't you contact them?

Snohomish County: All the traffic of a major metropolitan clusterfuck with none of the culture. Actually, the traffic's way worse than if you live in the city proper, where you can walk/bike/bus/Car2Go to just about any place you want to get to. You're a poster child Urbanite now. Trust this small town boy's opinion here: There's no going back without dying a slow, spiritual death. If you were a country-mouse at heart, it'd be s different story. Lose the house in Sno and figure out how to buy here. You, of all people, need to be here. If you decide otherwise, TGI Friday's and the Buzz Inn are still going strong.

Hey Fatty.

There were two cycle tourists riding the Icefields Parkway last this winter when I was there. The previous few days had seen -10 F. No room at the hostel. "No problem, we'll just camp". Dayum. At least they pretty much had the road to themselves.

3D printing has been around for decades. It's always been limited to a very few materials - mostly plastics of a pretty generic nature. It's a slow process. Real slow. I've completed only several toes of my first Tvashbot after hundreds of hours of printing. The highly irregular toenails were extremely difficult to get right. Nanobots and bioengineered self replicating systems will pass 3 D printers by they were standing still, which is about as fast as they ever move on a good day. The buzz around 3 D printers has more to do with Twitter than technology, really. Other than finer resolution and an open source design for the printers themselves (hyper geeks only), there's very little new under the sun here.