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Colin Roald. Cofounder, FLOAT Boston. Astro PhD. Stay frosty, my friends.

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

I am founding a new school of philosophy: it is called Correct Theory and its principal tenet is that it’s a magical world, ol’ buddy.

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Robotbeat Not if it’s a 12-hr red eye to Asia

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Robotbeat Cannot argue with that, but I'd also like to put in an honorable mention for the one that happened in my lifetime: 1989-11-09

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@joebarnard @DrChrisCombs SLS hardware is so expensive they couldn’t afford to actually fly a test. Starship is efficient enough that SpaceX *can*

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@joebarnard @DrChrisCombs IFT-2 was a *test* launched in the middle of development; Artemis 1 was “we guarantee this will work” after all the *testing* was done. These are not the same!

[Tyler ✈️ @tygoo7__]

Spent an entire shift thinking about how this is an actual picture...

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@bertil_hatt @duncancampbell Not at all obvious that it will be more expensive to do a simple synthesis of methane from water and carbon dioxide, than to collect, purify and break down a jumble of ag waste and dirt

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

Imagine living in a world with falling birth rates, other countries worried how to remain productive, but yours has streams of arrivals full of initiative, wanting to work, sharing your worldview, believing in the future of your nation. I wish our leaders had the creativity to /1

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Cererean Usually people “giving” to campaigns that wildly exceed their goals are actually just buying (preordering) whatever the campaign is making/selling. You might as well ask why people “give” to a store even after it’s made payroll for the month

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@pythonrocksnake @Cererean (where “easy” means “certainly far easier than interplanetary travel”)

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@pythonrocksnake @Cererean If all you want is land, I suspect it would be easy to get permission from the Canadian government for a generous chunk of uninhabited high Arctic islands, that would in all ways be more habitable than Mars

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Cererean you should be able to go to your bank and withdraw (or exchange) money in the form of rolls of coins

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Cererean @RandomSprint Are you being sarcastic? Of course the ocean is an environment

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Robotbeat This big enough? https://t.co/H1BEJHS5le

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Cererean The key is always “how slowly?” But I’d bet the real question is “how are you getting the brine to open ocean in the first place?”

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Robotbeat Have you heard about sand? let me tell you about sand

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@Robotbeat Have you heard about glass?! let me tell you about about glass

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@plutosavior @AlanStern @DrPhiltill @nasaman58 @b0yle And probably because staying high in the gravity well will be an advantage for trade with the rest of the solar system

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@plutosavior @AlanStern @DrPhiltill @nasaman58 @b0yle Because it’s outside Jupiter’s radiation belts

[colin ✨🌍✨ @croald]

@hradzka it does, actually. you just have to ignore “follow”, which is useless, and make Lists instead