Jonathan Charles Sullivan

Banker | BS Economics | W. P. Carey School of Business | Arizona State University

[Grant Gregory @grant__gregory]

Some facts about Mars: It has 24.5 hour days, 144 trillion square meters of land area (roughly equivalent to the land area of Earth), and an average temperature of -85F. That's cold, but better than any of our other options.

First, a self sustaining martian colony is a Plan B for Earth, should a catastrophe occur that wipes out humanity.

Second, rare and valuable metals are abundant on Mars, and Deuterium is 5x more abundant, the fuel of choice should we ever achieve nuclear fusion as a power source. There is commercial and economic motivations to mine and manufacture on Mars. Because gravity is 2.4x less than on Earth, escape velocity is thusly lower and exporting of world to Earth is cheaper than going from Earth to Mars.

Third, there is substantial opportunity for scientific research on Mars, looking for martian life and furthering our understanding of the creation of our solar system. There is also materials science and pharmaceutical chemistry that is achievable on Mars due to the lower gravity than here on Earth. For example, did you know you can make aluminum more transparent than your typical silicon glass? The problem is gravitational shear as the metal cools. There are methods to get around this but it's extremely expensive, reserved for high end optics and bulletproof US fighter jet cockpit domes because it's a government contract so fuck it. But in space or on Mars, if the gravity is low enough, they can mass produce aluminum glass; never again will you shatter your phone screen by dropping it. Or shooting it, apparently.

And one that ties economics and science together is the amount of innovation that has to go into successfully establishing such a colony. As Neal deGrasse Tyson said, for every dollar invested in NASA, there is a $14 economic return just from the innovation that comes out of solving problems. Pyrex bakeware came out of trying to develop rocket noses, WD-40 was the 40th attempt at making a compound that would Displace Water, that's Water Displacement attempt #40, the internet as a whole came out of a scientists who wanted a better way of linking scientific papers to the documents they cite in their bibliographies. Just attempting to get to Mars would be a huge economic boom, and we're seeing this already, with the birth of the commercial space flight industry, with Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and Boeing - specifically Boeing working beyond NASA and military contracts.

Finally, there are political motivations. Just look how the US rallied behind the space race of the 50s. Imagine if you can motivate whole nations or an entire planet behind a similar cause.

Edit: To quote Tyson again, who wants to build a jet engine that is 20% more fuel efficient? No one that isn't an aviation executive. Who wants to go to Mars? He had more to say in this thread I'm paraphrasing, but basically he was saying frontier science and engineering inspires the next generation, and they get involved and end up solving other problems while trying to achieve the goal in front of them.

[Jonathan Charles Sullivan @Sully644]

Sorry @OpenAI I think I broke your computer

[Jonathan Charles Sullivan @Sully644]

More music artists should take the time to rerecord some of their songs in other languages. People who already enjoy the original song will listen to the rerecording and it will generate an entirely new international audience. 1 original song could generate the same revenue as 10

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It���s ironic that unconsciousness could actually have consciousness under the pretense that consciousness is defined as a process of decision making that is influenced by motives since all unconscious decisions are made with some sort of motivational influence

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They need to tell undergrads that this is what happens to you when you get a degree in economics

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This is a great idea, jury’s could prevent abortion convictions from happening in courts throughout the country without the interference of judges or court officials

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@dono__antonio The commitment for this tweet is top tier

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There should be a service where you can hire someone to do a mock interview with you. Mock interviews with friends just aren’t close enough to the real thing

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@dono__antonio Not until you pry him from Boston’s cold dead hands

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I justify taking long hot showers by telling myself it’s cheaper than a hot tub

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Someone named Nicholas must’ve been the first person to get a nickname

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We perceive time linearly through our senses; but, since we’re nothing but brains in a vat, there is a possibility of an undiscovered “6th sense” which would be perceived nonlinearly in relation to time. Having such a sense would be similar to having the ability to time travel

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States should invest in creating their own online K-12 schools for students who struggle with traditional learning but don’t want to use a for-profit online school

Imagine: The Massachusetts State Online School District

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People who are colorblind must be really confused about why everyone is tweeting about flags

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I wonder when audio deepfakes will start to infiltrate the music industry? Imagine instead of trying to get Justin Bieber to feature on your song you could just use deepfake technology to create a perfect sounding fake Justin Bieber and have the fake Justin Bieber do the feature

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If I work at a restaurant and a new menu item is added then I usually have to do some online learning. Why arent we doing this with politicians? If you want to pass a new bill that bans abortions you should first have to take a course about abortions and the implications of a ban

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If needed, I’m confident that I could save the world with my clarinet playing like Agent Cody Banks did back in 2004

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Shark Tank but all of the products are cell phone apps and all of the Sharks are tech billionaires

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The universe created eyes so it can watch itself

[Jonathan Charles Sullivan @Sully644]

There’s two party phases that you’ll go through in life: Your first few years of college and also that one year in middle school where every weekend there was a bar/bat mitzvah