/sci/ - Science & Math

Tyson really lost his glamor since he started using twatter
he ctually used to be bearable when h still just did radio and TV

>>9984760
This

>it's another edition of pseudointellectuals that hide behind big words
reminder to sage

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Fuck it, I'm getting a job in software.

this fuckin thread

I'm just not finished yet:

>>8114069
>You can reduce the area it doesn't disappear.
Are you even aware of how much farm land your stupid, inefficient, and dangerous methods would take up? I know you're convinced you can pinch one out on a pile of regolith and think you'll grow some potatoes, but I'm convinced you have never, ever once set foot on a farm because if you did you would know it sucks. Everything about farming fucking sucks. It's labor intensive, resource intensive, takes up a lot of space and uses up a lot of labor to eke out as much production out of a few inches of soil. There simply isn't enough manure to go around to fertilize the world's crops, I hope you know that, because soil farming is not efficient at all.

I said something here:
>>8114266
>you're still persisting in thinking that Martian colonists are going to have vast acres of pressurized habitat for their plants.

I want you to carefully read that and try to put yourself into my shoes, somebody who isn't convinced he's the smartest person in the room and relies more on experience and wisdom than bullshit popsci fantasy. When you talk about "arable land" like it's some sort of vital requirement for a colony I know what you're imagining. I know you think of semi-circular vault habitats that stretch for acres, rows of them, filled with delicious pure CO2 atmosphere that they will walk into and gingerly operate some neat looking combine.

This will never work. It's stupid. Get the fuck out of the 1970's Popular Mechanics article you live in because that's a recipe for disaster.

When you talk about farming like it's some critical aspect and colonists will need acres and acres I know you're a clueless fucking fool because a real farm on Mars will not need that. Instead it will look a lot like a farm that could be suspended from a balloon on Venus: a boring cube with artificial grow lights. Oh and,

>You seem to think hydroponics is some magic singularity
>singularity meme
Pic related.