I never thought I'd say this but "I want other companies to succeed at space travel"
To be clear, I don't want any companies in space because they'll simply ruin space the way they ruined earth. You will never convince me there aren't executives salivating at the idea of exploiting slaves employees far away from earth and it's " limiting regulations" so they can do whatever they want including just spacing someone out an airlock if they try to strike.
But so far it's been more or less one company who's been tossing trash all over LEO and larger trash between earth and Mars.
I'd rather space travel be open and easy for everyone, including some random guy who just wants a quick trip around Saturn. Of course we're likely centuries away from that, and I don't think we have centuries left as a whole.
Eh, Boeing airplanes may or may not have lost doors during flight due to crappy design and construction, and the now multiple murdered suicide ls whistleblowers don't add to my trust in Boing.
The less data that needs to go across the link, the better. So you would definitely want to set up a CDN endpoint on Mars that would take cached copies of data.
I thought more recent studies have placed the missing mass as the collective mass of the Oort Cloud, especially as the plutinos have been found to have wildly different orbits than the inner rocky planets and the gas giants.
When I first heard the term "fediverse", it immediately made me think of some sort of vast interplanetary network. And let's face it: a fediverse-like model is really what you would need if you had settlements scattered throughout the solar system. A monolithic, centralized service would be awful, given the reality of communication lag and likely limited bandwidth.
So let's say lemmy (or more generally activitypub) were to go interplanetary. How would that work out? You set up your first instance on Mars. Any content that's posted there will be immediately available to your fellow Martians. Earthlings who subscribe may also be able to view it as their instances cache the content, albeit after some delay.
But the trouble starts when Earthlings want to start contributing to the discussion. If they have to wait the better part of an hour to get a single comment lodged, it's going to get old fast.
So you would need to allow the Earth side to branch off to some extent from what's happening on Mars. Then eventually, something like a git merge would try to bring it all back together? I wonder if that would work?
So you're saying the comments themselves get cached on the local instance where the user is registered before being synced with the remote community-hosting instance?
I honestly don't know how these things work internally, but had assumed the comments needed to go straight to the remote instance given the way you can't comment once said instance goes down? You can still read the cached content though.
"Oh my fucking God is this dude playing from Mars or something? Asshole has like 15,000ms latency and is glitching all over the place I can't hit the bastard!"
I have heard this tape. While it's distressing, it's something worth hearing. Not because it's pleasant to listen to people die. But because it's worth remembering their pain so that those mistakes are never repeated again.
Remember that the engineers, technicians and other support staff of Apollo 1 didn't have the option of turning off the audio either (I listened to it to partially feel what they felt). They worked feverishly to save their colleagues who were burning to death only a few inches away from them. And to finally reach them to find out that it was all in vain.
This would have been a horrifyingly painful experience for NASA. And it did have an impact. NASA changed in an instant. No effort was spared in keeping the future astronauts safe. So much so that a deeply crippled Apollo 13 still made it back safely. And no lives were ever again lost on the Apollo missions. That's the power of a personal connection to a tragedy. I watch a lot of accident investigation documentaries, including rail, aviation and space. Nothing drives the lessons deep like the depiction of human tragedy.
Just imagine. If only the aircraft manufacturers could see the final moments of the passengers that die in their low quality aircrafts. Perhaps they would try hard to avoid such incidents rather than chase profits at any cost.
RIP: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Ed White. The bravehearts of Apollo 1.
Knowing history, that's a one tape I have no intention of listening. RIP the crew and all other early space flight pioneers who perished pushing the boundaries of our planet.
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