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I'm currently watching a documentary about vietnam war, and Siam was the evil dictator of the south, that America backed. This is what is being said about his troops:

Feels awfully relatable to current times.

Here's a link to the full documentary, in case anybody wonders:

https://archive.org/details/kenburnsvietnam

The scenes are from the second part of the documentary, at minute 44:00.

it's a 10-piece documentary (each piece lasts about 1.5 hours). it's free to watch though!

Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

“The mid-latitudes offer the perfect compromise – they get enough sunlight for power, but they’re still cold enough to preserve ice near the surface,” Luzzi said. “That makes them ideal for future landing sites.”

Water and electricity are the basis for a lot of processes such as electrolysis to produce oxygen, and growing plants for food. It is required that when people land on mars, they need to have access to water and electricity.

Water is unevenly distributed across mars, with these two maps providing insight:

The first image displays the hydrogen content of mars rock (regolith); many studies such as this one discuss the technical feasibility of extracting water from that kind of regolith (with positive outcome).

The second map displays the depth that water ice is hypothesized to be buried on Mars, revealing that many areas on mars actually contain water ice close below the surface. This belief is further reinforced by findings such as this one:

This is what phoenix rover dug up in 2008. It displays water ice exposed through a shovel slowly evaporating over a course of 4 days.

It may have been the case before that people thought hard work brought a better life, but now things have changed

Professor Bobby Duffy worked on the study, and said that millennials have 'become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they’ve made their way through their career'.

Ok so hear me out, everyone.

Today i had a funny little dream. I wanna tell you all about it because i found it so funny. (It's not technically a showerthought but i couldn't find a community for this particular thing, and this feels like the next-best-thing. The community notes even says "thoughts that come to you while day-dreaming", so i guess this is close enough. I hope you all forgive me :-) Creating lots of small niche communities splits the userbase too much, i fear, as well)

I was dreaming that I was in an underwater old ship wreckage. I.e., there was an ocean, and it was close to the coastline, and an old wooden ship sank there centuries ago, and i was there.

I observed a lot (20 maybe) penguins going in and out of the ship wreckage, each transporting a cooked, peeled egg in its beak, that looked like it was stolen from a nearby breakfast buffet. They took these eggs, and deposited them in the ship, so that the ship became a treasure chamber of digestible food. There was soo much stuff, that a good part of the ship was filled with food. I was amazed and asked myself why the fuck they would dispose that much good food, instead of eat it, presumably because it would go bad after a while, if oxygen reached it, it would start to rot rather badly.

I went into this ship to investigate and there was so. much. algae. everywhere. It felt like the algae feed on that food, and it was hard to get through. Eventually i exited the ship on the other side.

I thought about why the penguins store the food, and i thought to myself "huh, that's just biology", where "biology" somehow referred to how things are done underwater. Then i wanted to laugh, and to not swallow too much water, i dived up to the surface to breathe, but the closer i got to the surface, the stranger the impression of air seemed to me, as if it was a foreign object, and not like something that my life depended on. When i finally reached the surface, i tried to inhale, and when i did, something in my mind switched, and i suddenly felt like a "air animal" again, i.e. one that breathes, and i noticed that i had seen and perceived everything underwater as a "water animal" would describe it, and that i had even used the word "biology", which was an underwater word for how things are done underwater, while the correct, equivalent term for "air animals" would be "(?) angeles" or "archangeles" which would mean how things are done in-air. And that was discriminatory against fish and water-life, and that i might be a predator because i "look down on things that happen under-water".

And that was surprising, which sounded like "shark-prising" somehow. Anyways, then i tried to dive down again, and just then, a shark came out of nowhere and tried to attack me. I just thought "that's typical with my luck and all". Then i wanted to take a photo from the ship to post on [social media], to ask you all why the penguins did that (i still want to hear your opinion about that) but i woke up through the shark attack. I just assumed that my dream had to end because my dream could not make up a good answer for why the penguins did that, to incorporate into my dream.

I'm going back to sleep now, i have an exam in 4-5 hours, and still want some hours of sleep.

For all their "christianity", republicans in the US are pretty hypocritical.

Jesus actually teached that everybody deserves to get fed and housed. That everybody deserves healthcare. That people should care for other people in their community. That is essentially the core principles of socialism.

I hope discussions are allowed in this community.

My idea is the following: if people ever set foot on Mars, they will need a continuous food source. It is preferable to be able to produce at least parts of that food on-site, instead of having to import it from Earth.

Now, i've thought about methane-eating bacteria or hydrogen-eating bacteria. They produce organic matter (and thus proteins) from anorganic ingredients (or ingredients that can be produced through technical processes like the Sabatier reaction). This way, anorganic ingredients (water extracted from the environment, hydrogen from electrolysis, CO2) can be turned into a source of proteins.

What do you think?

Is this technically viable?

Is it physiologically viable / healthy?

I'm well aware plants could also produce food. I just wanted to think about a possible alternative.

Me pretending that I don't care so the screen load faster.

For years, there has been a lot of backlash against the "objectification of women", which i can totally understand because it's a "dehumanizing" term that looks at people like objects, not as actual human beings.

But the same is happening with the concept of "workers": If people are referred to as "workers", that means that they are being reduced to their economic function; to their ability to produce.

That is a dehumanizing term. The view should be that people are humans first, and workers second. People deserve rights, and a good life, not because they're workers, but because they're humans. That is how people should be looked at.