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Come Home white man

>>12752795
One of these days I hope we can plug in some wires and replace Oppy’s batteries and get her online again

>>12736726
Alright SFG pick your poison. I had fun writing this last thread so I’ll do it again.
OPTION A
>You are a low paid welder working for SpaceX in Boca Chica. You get to build Starships with your team and you can proudly say that you actually got to be hands on with a spaceship. Who else can say that?
>However, if SpaceX changes their weld technique, you’re out of a job. You are also a single father, and if you lose your job, your child will have to go to a crappy public school.
>Also, because you are spending so much money on your child’s education, you will never be able to afford a ride to space in your lifetime.
OPTION B
>You are an engineer working on the SLS at Boeing. Your job pays very well - upwards of $150K a year. You enjoy your co workers and your work environment. However, you work for an OldSpace company. Also, even though you dislike SLS, you know that if it is cancelled, you will be out of a job.
>Back home you have a qt wife and several children. Your wife doesn’t work and you live in a higher-income neighborhood. If you lost your job at Boeing (and all of its income) your family would have to move.
>Also you have a heart condition and you will never fly in space, no matter how much money you save.
OPTION C
>You are a millionaire who is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. You have $60 million at your disposal, so you decide to book a ride on Crew Dragon to the ISS. The mission will last a week, and you’ll even be able to operate machinery on the ISS.
>However, your brain tumor has given you a little over a year to live. Worse, the stresses from re-entry will kill you, making any voyage to space a one-way trip.
>You have no family on Earth. No wife, no kids, no nothing. When you die, you’ll fade away into a memory.

>>12727600
I had a fever dream last night where I was watching the finale to this Netflix show about Mars colonization. Anyways it ended with Life on Mars? by Bowie playing and the actor for Steve from Stranger Things holding hands with that girl from Queen’s Gambit while they watched a half dozen Starships land at the colony. Then I woke up and was disappointed that it wasn’t a real show.

How do you make a Martian colony self sustainable?