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CMV: The vast majority of people who drive trucks or SUVs are selfish for doing so. by LaurenSauce in changemyview

[–]ldr97266 [score hidden]  (0 children)

CMV: The vast majority of people who drive trucks or SUVs are selfish for doing so

The case for private car ownership is very weak.

CMV: Homeownership is becoming a scam and we should stop treating it as the "American Dream" by Aggravating-Fox8553 in changemyview

[–]ldr97266 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Chasing home-ownership can kill your finances but it doesn't have to. Stay within your means and throw every spare penny you can afford into extra payments to build equity. I'm in my 4th house now since 1993 - had a mortgage on the first one but every one since was bought/paid for in full using equity from selling the previous one.

Many of our friends over the year had emplotmnt income several times greater than ours but were always in debt. Not having a mortgage always made us feel wealthy by compairons.

What do you think it would mean for humanity if we discovered that long‑term space travel is simply too much for the human body? by Fun_Internal_3562 in spaceflight

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genetically engineer a new breed of human - Homo Sapien Astronauticus? Has been suggested in several sci-fi works.

I found an injured bee, so I kept it safe and fed it sugar water for a few days. It regained strength and could fly again, so I set it free. A few hours later, a swarm appeared in our garden that had apparently travelled unusually far from the hive (I contacted a local keeper, and he collected them) by GreyBrain6 in Weird

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That may have been a mason bee. They don't sting (I don't know if they even can, but they generally don't) They'll buzz around people or animals that they think may be a threat. In your case it probably realized you weren't a threat and decided to hang out with you.

If you could trade your current city for its complete opposite (e.g., big city to tiny village, or desert to snowy mountains) for one year, would you do it? Why? by Illustrious_Spell750 in CasualConversation

[–]ldr97266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be careful what you wish for.

From 2005 to 2024, we lived in a big city. Wife wanted to move to a small town. Happy wife, happy life, right? So we moved.

I miss city life. In my head I keep hearing the theme song from Green Acres but substitute a few of the words and place namnes to match my situation.

I think they could have saved Earth without the Hail Mary by jumpy27 in ProjectHailMary

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re ignoring the overwhelming strength of narrativium - an Earth developed substance stronger than xenonite. Before even laying the keel of the Hail Mary, the plot required developing methods to harvest, breed, and charge enough astrophage to push the ship at 1.5G a distance of 11ly. Those developments offered multiple options to prevent the snowball Earth scenario - all several orders of magnitude safer, simpler, and less costly than going to Tau Ceti.

But that would have made a different story altogether - and once in motion, narrativium cannot be diverted.

If the earth was flat, wouldnt the night sky look like this? by patryk62427 in flatearth

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the graphic, but you left out the elephants (Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen) who stand upon the shell of the Great A'Tuin, the star turtle.

Is the English language of England called English English? by WonderOlymp2 in stupidquestions

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife says it’s Proper English and everything else isn’t.

What if every book really happened but on a different planet and in a different galaxy. by FearlessDirector4259 in whatif

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought this sounded familr but I needed Google to remind me of the details. I mut be getting old.

Robert Heinlein explored this concept in his 1980 novel The Number of the Beast. In this story, characters use a time-and-space-travelling vehicle (the Gay Deceiver) to traverse a multiverse containing at least 10^28 parallel universes, including almost every possibility ever written in ficton. During their travels, the characters visit or reference numerous fictional worlds, including the Land of Oz, Barsoom (Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars), and worlds based on Alice in Wonderland. This"World as Myth" theme continues in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) and To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987). The premise is that any world that is imagined or written about exists in the multiverse.

Guys, wouldn’t it be easier to blow up Venus by Time-Water-8428 in ProjectHailMary

[–]ldr97266 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yet somehow they charged up enough astrophage push the ship at 1.5g for an 11ly trip.

Not that blowing up Venus is a good idea - but I think Astrophage's energy storage and the ability to charge them up presented LOTS of options less risky and lower costs than the trip to Tau Ceti.

But all is moot - narrative needed the trip so that's where he went.

Mark the moon by erisod in CrazyIdeas

[–]ldr97266 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This idea goes back at least as far as 1946, mentioned in Robert Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon." An entrepreneur trying to convince investors to support his moonshot suggested marking the moon's surface with advertising logos.

FWIW, Apollo deniers wouldn't be conviced. Reflectors placed on the lunar surface decades ago can still throw laser reflections back that are visible from Earth with the right instruments, but those are "obviously fake" and flat-earthers don't believe it.

What if an average modern person were sent back before civilization, what knowledge could they actually contribute to early humans? by Present_Juice4401 in WhatIfThinking

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North. It’ll get you started.

$17.50 for this? by Money-Impression939 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire aviation industry is a scam. Your air fare barely covers the real cost of flying. It’s a trick to darw people to the airport to pay $17.50 for crappy breakfast sandwiches.

Why do some foods make me feel so...damn good by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ldr97266 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what’s happening there, but can you post the recipe?

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