Balex

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[–] Balex@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where are they? I want to pull up with my homie and surprise him 🤫

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

But SpaceX has literally lowered the cost of a launch by an order of magnitude. They also are flying one of the most successful rockets ever flown.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Evolution isn't some sentient force striving for perfection. There is a lot of retarded stuff that we have evolution to thank for. This could just be a side effect of some other trait that normally helps the fish survive. Plus, earthquakes don't happen often enough to affect evolution in the long run.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know if I quite agree with that being a morale issue. But that same logic nuclear reactors are immoral because if they blow up they can cause a lot of harm.

I do agree that it is a little sketchy for human flight, but they wouldn't use it if there was a significant chance of it harming the people on board.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Going to the moon was a fantasy at one point. I just don't see any downsides to trying to become multi-planetary. Even if it fails there would still be technology developed in pursuit of that goal that helps life on earth.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

That wouldn't happen for an extremely long time. It will be many generations before Mars would be self sufficient enough that they could wage war on Earth. I don't feel like that's enough of a possibility to not even try colonizing another planet.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm not aware of any reason on why we'd want to colonize the bottom of the ocean, but there's many reasons to want to become a multi-planetary species. Space exploration has also lead to many technologies being used in everyday life today.

What's morally questionable about fission fragment drives?

[–] Balex@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do you mean from that distance? By the time he shot her they were <5 feet apart.

You're right, it doesn't change the fact that the cop completely failed at controlling the situation and she is now dead because of that, but it muddy's the water and creates conversations that don't need to be had (like this).

I don't know why you seem to think that getting boiling water thrown at you would be like taking a hot shower, but that could seriously mess someone up for life.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I do agree that there are scenarios that are very complicated, I feel like this website does a very poor job at showing those. Almost every single scenario they show doesn't make sense at all. Why are there barriers on one side of the road, why does half the crosswalk have a red light while the other half has a green light?

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