Recent content by Castaigne

too bad presidents are unable to do any of those... lol In terms of a presidential candidate, I want someone charismatic who can build alliances at home and abroad. The primary purpose of the president is a unifying factor, not a Super Saiyan who can "save" the economy. What does that even...

But the problem here is that Mars One itself isn't aware of the full risks involved. It took an outside agency to point out flaws in their plans, to which they responded: "nuh uh." That's a problem that will only get worse over time. If they're incapable of conducting a full risk analysis on...

lemme rephrase lol: they will be unable to complete their mission with current levels of technology. Even if they make it to the site location, Mars One just doesn't have the tech or the plan to have them succeed. They'd die in a pretty shitty way and I'd argue it's immoral to allow them to...

Chivalry has been completely warped by centuries of romanticism, so in that sense I would say it's never been alive in the first place. It's a very attractive moral code for people and if it works for you I'm not going to stop. As far as I'm concerned, cultivating virtue is worthwhile even if...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2014/may/19/nasa-private-manned-missions-mars spoiler: they all gonna die.

These experiments have been done before and I absolutely love them. The most infamous is Biosphere 2. Long story short weird things happen to people. That being said, this kind of research is vital and it's what separates NASA (successful) from Mars One (currently a well intentioned mass murder...

Not only do people cope with death in different ways, the same people deal with individual deaths in different ways across time. Some people have died and I felt like the world was going to come crashing down, yet it kept spinning. Some people died and I didn't feel much of anything, and the...

Ok I feel like adding some of my two cents in here (I've worked with chemicals in a lab for a year and a half so that's where I'm coming from on this): 1) Silver and all its compounds are toxic. It kills bacteria because it's deadly. At the nanoparticle level, it's actually lethal to human...

The arrests have begun. 12 people so far, with probably more to come.

The economy has been suboptimal lately, with China trying to lowkey stimulate its economy, while the rest of the world is looking at it under a microscope, periodically screaming and chewing on their brand new August "Stock Trader Tie of the Month." Meanwhile in the West the Eurozone is still...

yes let's take our R&D money and sink it into hiring a bunch of nannies who will totally be good to the children? You ever been in a nursing home? You could fit the amount of fucks those workers give their clients in the electron shell of a hydrogen atom. Giving people money to be decent human...

I thought this was a joke for a not insignificant period of time. Even when they were arrested I was waiting for Ashton Kutcher

The reason people make the consciousness argument is to reframe the question. I think most of us here would agree that a mother does not have the final say in whether or not she can kill her baby once it's delivered. However, you could say that the baby isn't that developed at birth either...

Governments can assist with gentrification by creating low cost housing, setting rent limits, encouraging more development, etc. Essentially they do all the things governments do, pulling levers to try to balance supply and demand. The effectiveness of each policy is heavily dependent on time...

I believe the word you're looking for is desert. Very mountainous and very arid, dusty, horribly degraded land.