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>You drive your personal solar powered Mars rover over the bumpy barren wasteland towards your personal Mars base
>You're never touched the interior with your bare skin, it's dusty from your suit
>You park in your underground equipment protection garage and step out

>You walk up to your base entrance
>You enter the vacuum sealed primary sterilization chamber
>Can't accidentally let the new Mars super resistant microbes into your base
>Pipes open wide and you're soaked in antibacterial cleansing agent
>Chamber drains then rinses you off

>You enter the secondary sterilization chamber for another rinse
>You enter the secondary drying chamber to incinerate the outer layer of your suit
>You enter the primary drying chamber to wash the inner layer of your suit and put it in the ultraviolet storage unit

>Twenty minutes later, you're finally home
>Look out the window through your porthole at a barren wasteland, no trees or mountains
>You're taking part in the scientific revolution of the future, you're a true pioneer
>You work all day since this is so expensive that you don't have any free time to spare, then go home to your empty base. What a privilege to be able to be here
>No girls came with to the work camps so everyone was issued a sex doll
>You are so bored of it you don't even want to clean its vagina anymore and just leave it in the closet

>You take a sip of Mars-grown potato vodka and stare out your porthole at the stars

>Ahh, livin' the dream. This is the future. Life on Mars. Thank you Elon
>A single tear streams down your cheek

>Damn you Elon

>> No.9502019

Anon, I raise you the following: all we idiots on 4chan that are perfectly happy to sit indoors and never go outside or make contact with any living thing so long as we're topped up with fried food and anime. Some of us might as well be living on a lonely extraterrestrial colony base already.

Idea for any lonely but creative introverts reading this: set up your walls and lighting to resemble whatever you think a space colony would feel like and pretend you're a solitary colonist, holding the post indefinitely while you watch out for aliens. Your only human contact is ten million miles away, you're perfectly alone and at peace.

>> No.9502023

what a shallow cunt you are

>> No.9502028
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>>9502019
>Some of us might as well be living on a lonely extraterrestrial colony base already
Stop it anon I'm literally crying now

>> No.9502029

>>9502005
elon sends girl and they all fuck everyone is happy

>> No.9502041

>>9502005
>driving
>personal habitat
You wot m8?
Everything is connected by tubes, the only thing you'll ride in is the colonial light rail or a segway thingy.
Everything outside will be done by drones operated by basic AI and a few drone commanders in the control tower.

>> No.9502076

>>9502005
I live in London.
What you described sounds heavenly and great improvement compared to my life.
At least I get a home and a car.

>> No.9502079
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9502079

I'm sympathetic to the idea of going to mars for science, but O'Neill cylinders are the future.

>can create verdant, lush environments, free of mosquitoes and parasites, every single plant edible or harmless, all carefully climate controlled into permanent spring
>can build from resources found in space, trojan asteroids, comets brought in by tugs, powered by solar or fusion depending on how far off from the sun you are
>incredible possibility of expansion-we could have billions of these things within a few centuries, from oasis of pastureland to thrumming centers of science or manufacturing, some filled to the brim with re-created dinosaurs or mammoths or dodos, some just shallow oceans that we set loose dolphins and sharks and giant squids within and observe from below using vast glass windows
>vast fortunes to be made selling a place in these paradises, in manufacturing ships and scientific instruments in space, in trade routes betweeen the far-flung outposts of humanity, in building immense generation ships or perhaps some far future version of the Orion project (or if we're lucky and certain wild-eyed theorists are correct, Machian gravito-inertial ships) to fly outward on series of nuclear detonations and explore our nearest neighboring stars

and above all, freedom! Immense, all-encompassing freedom! Freedom for the wretched and ugly past of this sin-cursed earth and all its blood and evil. The best will build shining cities and prosper out in the vastness, limited only by the laws of our universe and their own creativity and determination.

Space is life.

>> No.9502120

>>9502005
Except your "personal Mars base" is a tiny apartment sized structure with 6-10 people in it and a bunch of loud ass machines that never turn off.

>> No.9502185

>>9502028
How on earth could that make you sad

>> No.9502193

>>9502185
Because I live 100% alone and it's basically like living on an alien colony and I want to kill myself

>> No.9503679

>>9502193
Go to the gym
then you'll at least be /fit/ and alone
or you might be able to catch the attention of a qt

>> No.9503694

You people don't seriously think there is going to be anything like a Mars "colony"?

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>>9502005
Fuck off skyseer.

>> No.9503724

>>9503694
The imperial pleasure palace will require a lot of upkeep. And those workers have to live somewhere.

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>>9502019
That just...
Woah.