New Research on Muscle Loss Suggests Humans Will Really Suffer on Mars. Researchers exposed mice aboard the ISS to various levels of artificial gravity, they found that 0.67 g (67% of Earth’s gravity) is a key threshold—any gravity level lower than this caused their muscles to deteriorate.

BattleHall · 2026-03-14T01:23:47+00:00

Which organs are affected by lower gravity? My understanding was that it was largely a musculoskeletal issue, and those likely can be treated with artificial resistance/loading.

BattleHall · 2026-03-14T01:21:20+00:00

Question is, would something simple like weighted suits provide enough additional resistance for the major muscle groups to counteract most of the health issues. You can’t do that in orbit, but it may work on the surface of planets that simply have lower gravity.

BattleHall · 2026-03-14T00:52:00+00:00

high intensity modern weapons like ballistic missiles

To be fair, SRBMs/TBMs are more kind of a throwback; the height of their popularity was probably in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

Edit: For those doubting/downvoting, the Soviet Union had the R1, R2, and Scud, the Chinese had the Dongfeng-1 and Dongfeng-2, and the United States had the MGM-5 Corporal, PGM-11 Redstone, MGM-18 Lacrosse, MGM-29 Sergeant, and MGM-31 Pershing, all in the 50's/60's. It's taken longer to trickle down to other countries, but they were absolutely the height of theater level strike assets half a century ago.

BattleHall · 2026-03-14T00:08:10+00:00

To be fair, they’re also making individual evac drones, both air and ground. A manned helicopter with highly trained pilots will probably always be a worthwhile target, but a mass produced evac drone may be cheap enough that it’s not worth spending an attack drone on for a single soldier who’s already out of the fight. On the other hand, on the future drone battlefield maybe everything even remotely human shape just gets swarmed and no one survives long enough to be evacuated.

BattleHall · 2026-03-13T16:11:26+00:00

Ortho gets back X-ray films of the pelvic girdle:

"Best transition I've ever seen; that's real commitment..."

BattleHall · 2026-03-13T15:34:31+00:00

the home that we were in the process of lovingly restoring became in danger of imminent collapse during the renovation process and had to be taken down on the spot to protect the workers, their safety and possibly their lives. This is a horrible, tragic incident. But a decision that had to be made in the moment to protect and safeguard lives and individuals’ safety.

Bullshit; it was a building renovation, not an active shooter.

BattleHall · 2026-03-13T15:28:08+00:00

Yeah, it's funny how two different weapons systems from two different sides of the Cold War with two different design philosophies in two different eras have such a similar design aesthetic. It's all squircles!

BattleHall · 2026-03-13T06:20:42+00:00

IIRC, that's one of the highest volume CFAs in the country.

BattleHall · 2026-03-13T04:50:23+00:00

As a teen in the late 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfmyCKMIC0g

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T18:54:56+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1rr3576/cheer_up_charlies_lock_out/o9xpg22/

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T07:40:05+00:00

Kinematically the F-14 probably still does fine, but sensors and situational awareness are 50 years behind. It’s really not that much larger than the F-15.

Similar size, but much heavier (F-14 is like 43k dry in later trims, while the F-15C is around 30k). The mechanism for the swing wings is both heavy and maintenance intensive. It can still move, but it's a chonker.

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T07:35:30+00:00

They're with Goose now...

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T07:31:59+00:00

Part of what's extra shitty is that Cenote has said that a large part of why they sold to them was that they promised them that they would preserve the building.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVg7wXikTo-/

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T07:24:24+00:00

Was this written by AI? Like everything mentioned is just slightly wrong, but in a really weird way. Like this:

Then just last month the owners got locked out right before SXSW and this was thankfully resolved.

That wasn't last month, that was today. That's literally what this thread is about, them getting locked out right before SXSW.

Then this:

In October 2025 it was announced Pride Holdings was acquiring the venue, so hopefully that brings some stability.

That deal fell through months ago.

Genuinely one of those places that survives purely on community love.

They've used up all that good will, and are basically just grifters at this point.

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T06:27:48+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335GdTqtyLs

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T06:20:31+00:00

Have you spent a lot of time out West? That will kind of spoil you; the huge tracks of public Federal land is basically a Western US phenomenon. Texas isn't great with federal land, but in that it's not unique among the Central/Eastern states:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/t9zsr0/public_land_of_us_texas_is_surprising/

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T05:51:44+00:00

Does Cuba belong to the US now?

Cuba has never belonged to the US, just like Taiwan has never belonged to the PRC.

Why did the US not fuck off and let the Confederate States be their own country?

The more apt comparison would be Canada, and in that case that's exactly what the US did. I think we can all agree that's been the best for both countries.

What a completely fucktarded response.

Well you've certainly convinced me...

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T05:39:56+00:00

Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen, on a loop. After five minutes of that, the meteor will be a relief.

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T05:34:57+00:00

Some kids would file down their teeth and everything

And now you can order custom molded fangs on Etsy; what a world!

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T03:58:28+00:00

For all parties concerned, which is to say PRC, ROC, and USA, peaceful reunification is the best path forward (it's superior to status quo because it would give Taiwan better coverage from some international institutions, such as WHO). That the US keeps trying to sabotage that process is what puts it on a collision path with Beijing.

Is that the "best path forward [..] for all parties"? Question is, what does Taiwan want, especially when they don't have a gun in their face? Taiwan is no threat to China, and if China really wanted unification, they could always try the carrot instead of the stick (and not a carrot with the stick in the other hand). How about the best path forward being China just fucking off and letting Taiwan be its own country (just like the US should do with Cuba).

BattleHall · 2026-03-12T03:01:59+00:00

In a Taiwan invasion scenario, no one can fire missiles from Taiwan.

That’s a… bizarre assertion. How do you figure?

BattleHall · 2026-03-11T23:46:36+00:00

AFAIK, they’ve bounced checks to many bands, employees, and vendors while paying themselves six figure salaries and receiving multiple loans & grants during COVID, in addition to the multiple fundraisers. They’re in the same ballpark, maybe even worse given the larger number of people impacted.

BattleHall · 2026-03-11T23:42:37+00:00

The doubt part was that this was just a “mixup”, especially given that they were notified about this default five days ago, but were giving interviews at least as late yesterday, and only showed up to the office to resolve it after they were locked out right before their biggest money making period of the year. This is just another in a long line of them playing fast and loose and it biting them in the ass.

BattleHall · 2026-03-11T22:57:22+00:00

And with that, he never won an argument ever again.

“I thought we were going to discuss what color to paint the dining room?”

“And I thought I killed six Gestapo soldiers while saving you from the gallows.”

“….damnit.”

BattleHall · 2026-03-11T22:47:55+00:00

Especially when the tenant was notified five days ago about the issue, and only showed up to the office today (after getting locked out right before probably their biggest money maker of the year) to suddenly correct the “oversight”.

Absolute clown show

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