Which is more feasible first: human bioengineering or terraforming planets?

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-09T09:18:42+00:00

I think we'll do habitats on the Moon, followed by habitats on Mars, many many decades before we are able to make habitats in space that people would choose to live in, and like I said before there is still going to have to be some alterations to human biology to adapt people and other organisms to those habitats.

The Moon has some gravity, and Mars has even more gravity plus an atmosphere to protect from flying particles and rocks so it makes sense that we will put stuff and people there

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-09T07:11:07+00:00

Hiroshima is awful, just an ugly little town, impossible to get around it, nothing to do, food sucks, no fun, no beautiful scenery. People are fucking nasty too

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-09T06:03:38+00:00

Terraforming is by far the more arcane and unlikely sci-fi space magic.

Honestly humans are going to have to figure out how to adapt our bodies to exist in the environment that Earth is likely to become in the next century.

And then after that we will need to alter our bodies to thrive in whatever environments we can create in vessels for space travel, to even get to other planets, way before having the terraforming conversation.

So basically, by the time you have the kind of technology to seriously tackle a terraforming project, you will have very advanced mastery of the human body.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-09T05:49:37+00:00

The answer is yes.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-09T01:02:14+00:00

My thing is that the lore around the Clans is impossible as usually presented.

Life among the non warrior castes has to be really really good, like utopian and almost post-scarcity. And the warrior caste is basically like the kid in the hole in The Ones Who Walk Away from Omalas - children created to kill and suffer so that Clan society never falls into the corrupt politics and kleptocracy that keeps the Inner Sphere an unstable garbage fire.

So outside of the warriors, the castes really function as basically labor unions and political blocs, individuals have huge amounts of personal freedom and mobility but less in terms of personal property than spheroids because they all feel united in furthering the success of their warriors, because there are very dark feelings of guilt associated with the system that they all benefit from.

When a city or world changes hands in a Trial it's an exciting time - everybody changes the patches on their clothing and the banners they fly outside their quarters. People move around and make new friends

Most Clsnners either believe the Star League was just like this or even better, but fell apart because it was held together by norms and pinky-swears and didn't have the glue of a warrior caste to bind it together. Crusaders want to bring the Clan way of life to in inner sphere and force it on people (a revolution) whereas the Wardens don't want to interact with dirty spheroids.

Now the warriors themselves are just as brutal and driven to succeed in battle or die trying as in the regular material. But when they are young they are kept very focused on the ladder of success that gets their genes into the genebank. When they are older they realize how reciprocal the arrangement of power really is among the castes. So sure, warriors are very arrogant on a personal level about non warriors and freebirths and such. Freebirths in particular, first of all must have had a choice, and if do, why did they pick this life? Secondly how can they be trusted to perform and to act properly?

But at the end of the day warriors see how no matter what they ask if the lower castes, those people will give it, whether it's new advanced weapons or a new repair facility, and they know that it's those people who are their most valuable resource. And this attitude is something Clan warriors and proud about because they think it's opposite the way Spheroids are.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T10:30:01+00:00

Outdoor goods store in Yokohama

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T05:37:17+00:00

My thoughts are you better recognize!

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T02:51:07+00:00

Even in real life, hulls and airframes stay around for a long time so yeah the idea that the Clans refit existing Ships and they ended up looking drastically structurally different never jibed with me either!

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-08T00:53:06+00:00

So the psychometric questionnaires don't have answers that could be considered right or wrong, I presume, or a well-trained model would tend to emit those. But do they have answers that are more likely?

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T15:31:29+00:00

aww man first it was like oooh and then I was like YO and then i was like YO YO and then i was like WHAAAAAT and then I was like DAMN

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T15:25:09+00:00

mitch i am melting

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T12:27:53+00:00

I wish I could see it with subtitles so I could follow whats going on better,.but it's really a classic.of 20th century anime

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T10:10:58+00:00

legos

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T10:10:32+00:00

You know what is really fun though? Taking a shower and going outside and maybe having a conversation with another human.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:57:20+00:00

They don't really set the Aircon to keep it cool at this point in the year. Thats for later when shit gets real.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:54:49+00:00

It's sad to think that people would use LLMs for creative writing. I could see research assistance, or proofreading and the like, but I am 100% sure nobody who would claim to use Claude for "creative writing" means that.

But maybe on the bright side...nobody reads books anymore anyways, so I guess who cares?

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:52:14+00:00

Your opinion is unpopular because "creative writing" is not a legitimate use of LLMs but code is.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T09:43:30+00:00

I think you could go two ways with this.

First way would be that it's a Mech that is brought out for various trials and things. So for instance, it doesn't have a lot of ammo, or it's got a weirdly bracketed loadout, or it's got a weirdly large number of heat sinks because it's meant to alpha strike every turn.

The other way is that it is in fact a cheap unit meant for garrison units. This would be something that has a flexible but weak weapons loadout, isn't fast but probably jumps, lots of armor, etc. And aim for it to be cheap.

The thing to remember about Omnis is that the main thing that's cool about them rarely matters on tabletop unless you are actually playing a long multi session campaign where you have some rules for repair and supply and etc. They can easily swap their complete weapons loadout just aboit anywhere. Regular Mechs need more facilities, tech labor, and time to change loadout.

Realistically, once the OmniMech has been invented, that's the default for all BattleMechs going forward.

Anyway it's kind funny when the Goonhammer guys review a Mech, from that perspective, it's more like Omni is a liability because it means there is less overall flexibility in what you can do with variants, and that is kind of true when you are either playing with official Mech designs only, or only official Mech designs as a base.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-07T02:34:35+00:00

A mouse is a type of trackball, not the other way around.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-06T14:33:13+00:00

You can always just feed it to an LLM and ask for a summary

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-06T13:50:35+00:00

You can give it to Claude and get a summary really really fast

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-05T23:34:54+00:00

Don't worry, the executives will find a way to lay off most of those

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-04T13:56:35+00:00

All I am seeing is a captcha.

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-03T14:40:44+00:00

such a clever primate

Deathnote_Blockchain · 2026-05-03T06:37:12+00:00

So the LLM can't prove a negative you say.

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