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fail2fail2ban | 9 years ago | on: Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars

I don't see us living there for extended missions either. I do see the importance of what we learned and the inventions that came out of the Moon missions that have positively impacted our lives on this rock. The journey thing. What I don't get, at all, to this day, is why...we still don't have a Moon base.

fail2fail2ban | 9 years ago | on: Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars

> I hate this analogy. Not only does it enforce the bullshit teleology of the White European as "discoverer" (you know people inhabited these continents, right?)

Thanks, agreed. On the last part though, it doesn't hurt to explore, a lot can be learned in the process alone, outside of actually finding anything.

fail2fail2ban | 9 years ago | on: Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars

I'm not degreed so this is just my off the wall thinking but asteroid mining yes, definitely. I still think we need a Moon base, need to show we can run it successfully for around 2 decades then start seriously planning a Mars mission. As a kid, I'd have imagined we'd already have a successful Moon base.

Asteroids, since I assume they move and possibly in odd orbits might be difficult to reach in emergency situations, I'd rather not see any nation's Astronauts stranded on a remote asteroid.

fail2fail2ban | 9 years ago | on: Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game

You're comparing today's Minecraft with all the bells and whistles to Minetest. The original comment about trying to extend it in C++ compared to Java is perfectly valid. It's why Java rose to power and remains. It's why it takes so long to roll out new features in the Windows 10 Minecraft client (which is basically the PE client).
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