• Nobody@anarchist.nexus
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    6 days ago

    “We’ve found an abundant pocket of water on Mars. Enough to sustain our proposed data centers for a few decades.”

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    Fun fact, that big gash is called Valles Marineris and it’s the deepest canyon in the solar system.

    There’s probably nothing scary in there…

    Edit: largest not deepest, this is what I get for staying up too late

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      It’s definitely the largest canyon, if I’m reading Wiki right. It’s over 4km long and 200 wide, compared to the Grand Canyon at 277km long and 29 wide

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      The Mariana Trench seems to be deeper, 11000 m compared to 7000 m. But I’m not sure what’s the reference point on Mars for elevation. But at least can’t fall into the Mariana Trench

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        But at least can’t fall into the Mariana Trench

        why not? is there some local anomaly that causes gravity not to work?

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          I wouldn’t consider this as falling, but i get your point, i don’t see why sinking shouldn’t also be falling

          I should have specified: at least you won’t die from the impact

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            Air is not so different from water in the grand scheme of things, we’re just designed for and acclimated to air rather than water. So yeah, I think sinking is at best a subgenre of falling.

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    I am so fucking annoyed by Microsoft lately. Their mulitstep security that sometimes makes you repeat all the steps randomly. The pain if you have to use multiple accounts. That is almost all for work. And as a teacher, it takes too much time to do these things while trying to run a class, while also having to use a phone to authenticate! Such bullshit!

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      I hate when companies put too many services under one account. It’s shit like that which makes you need 2FA for bloody Minecraft.

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      Okay here me out, are you really saying that you don’t want him to go to Mars?

      I do. Or anywhere else really. Ideally hell. I mean even if hell did not exist, make one and then go to it. (Or I guess it would really be the other way around? 😜)

      But you know, Musk fucking off to Mars is also okay with me. Better there then here anyway.

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        Men are from Mars. Elon Musk is not a man he is a pile of dung, he doesn’t belong there.

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        We can send him and all the other billionaires to Mars, but not enough fuel to come back.

        Then turn off communications. Humanity saved.

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          Okay so what happens when they take all of Earth’s most precious resources with them when they leave… you know what, fuck it we ball, let’s roll out!

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        I would rather he stay here and burn on the planet he and other rich assholes have fucked up and we go to Mars and start over without those parasites.