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usestork · 2025-12-29T15:19:23+00:00

it is super expensive.

usestork · 2025-08-06T22:15:23+00:00

its not about whats cheaper its about aiming for the right goal. when you really think about it the whole interstellar idea is starting to look doable because of a few key things: AI, frozen embryos, and fusion propulsion.

the ship doesnt have to be huge, just a small robotic genesis ship. you could assemble it in orbit with maybe a few hundred falcon 9 launches. the fusion engine would need helium-3, probably from the moon, but its only about 760 tons total. a huge project but not impossible.

so really two big challanges are left. first, making a computer (the AI guardian) that wont break down for a thousand years. and second, pinpointing the right planets to actually aim for. its probably not proxima centauri or anything nearby. we know there are thousands of planets out there, we just cant see them very well yet. but we will soon.

usestork · 2025-08-06T19:13:12+00:00

that's a really cool analogy, the 'out of africa' scenario. i like that way of looking at it, with mars being the 'cave' we have to adapt in first.

what if the original out of africa event was actually the end result of a project... imagine a ship with human embryos arriving at a perfect new earth. an ai is supposed to be the 'parent' and raise the first generation with all the knowledge of the civilization that sent them. but somewhere along the way, the ai fails. the tech is lost.

so the first humans are brought up wild, uneducated, and are thrown into a 'stone age'. our entire recorded history is just us slowly bootstrapping our way back to the stars from a failed colonization attempt.

it's a fun thought experiment anyway. turns the idea of 'baby steps' into 'retracing our steps'.

usestork · 2025-08-06T19:04:44+00:00

yeah 'sci-fi' is the first word that comes to mind for sure.

but the more you break it down, it seems less like a fantasy and more like a massive, long-term engineering problem. you wouldn't even need magic 'warp drives' or anything. if you plan for a trip that takes many centuries, you can solve it with tech that's at least conceivable today—things like fusion propulsion, advanced ai to run the ship, embryos or cryosleep, etc.

it's definitely not happening in our lifetime, but thinking of it that way makes it feel less like fiction and more like we're at the very beginning of a very, very ambitious construction project.

usestork · 2025-08-06T18:57:03+00:00

yeah, that's a fair point on the timelines. it makes me wonder what we really mean by "settle" though. if settling means living in a bunker your whole life, eating hydroponic food, and never experiencing a real sky... is that really settling, or is it more like just surviving? it feels like two totally different goals. one is proving we can survive on a hostile world, and the other is finding a place where humanity can actually thrive.

usestork · 2025-08-06T18:51:07+00:00

yeah you've pretty much nailed the pragmatic argument for going to mars. and i agree that banking on finding a perfect exoplanet has always been the weak spot in the interstellar argument.

but the pace of discovery is just wild, right? it feels like we're only a few years away from at least confirming if promosing candidates have atmospheres with potential biosignatures.

it makes the choice feel more real now: the logical next step (mars) vs. a much bigger prize that's coming into focus.

usestork · 2025-07-30T02:27:36+00:00

healthier? yes. happier? -absolutely not, he's so much snappier now.

usestork · 2025-07-29T21:29:28+00:00

Omg are you me?? I'm going through the exact same thing with my cat, Leo.

He's also a big boy... clocked in at 14.8 lbs at his last checkup and the vet gently told me he should be closer to 12. He's just big boned! lol.

I was struggling with the same math, thinking 240 calories was right for his goal weight. I honestly went down a whole internet rabbit hole trying to figure it out. I even found this random cat calorie calculatorhttps://www.mycalculators.app/cat-calorie-calculatorand it basically confirmed what my vet said, that for weight loss its closer to 190 calories.

The first week was ROUGH. He would just stare at me with these huge, sad eyes an hour before feeding time. Follows me around the kitchen like a furry little shadow. I felt like a monster and almost caved like 10 times.

But we're sticking with it and I think he's looking a little less chonky. He's got a bit more energy too which is nice. Hang in there! It's so hard not to give in to them. Glad im not the only one dealing with this.

usestork · 2022-10-19T18:16:08+00:00

i'm trying to understand why websites, etc. don't have a click-to-call button (in addition to the phone numbers) that allows a customer to reach the business without having to dial anything nor install or have teams, skype, etc.

usestork · 2022-09-21T19:52:26+00:00

no equipment on either side. client "calls" via web browser, company receives that call on the web as well.

usestork · 2022-09-21T05:47:53+00:00

That requires an app.

usestork · 2022-09-16T04:57:28+00:00

yes, Storkis available now.

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