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Isn't dismantling the space program long overdue?

Reptillian

Reptillian

Hamburgler Extraordinaire
Meow Mix said:
Actually no, I'm not taking that bet as I imagine you're right.

However, I wonder what the tolerance for that is in humans?

You know, have you ever had to continually be around some kind of awful smell (used to live downwind from a pig farm myself waaaaay back in the day) and you eventually TOTALLY stop being able to smell it?
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Not a gambler eh? ;) I suspect there are two thresholds for smell; a sensory threshold, and a 'getting used to it and ignoring it because it's irrelevant sensory data threshold'. I'd imagine that both vary from individual to individual. There's probably a species average and people are distributed in a Gaussian/Normal curve about it with a standard deviation dependent upon our evolutionary selective pressures for different smells. Just spitballin' here.

Being from a rural area, I've experienced that phenomenon too...only it was cows not pigs.
 
methylatedghosts

methylatedghosts

Can't brain. Has dumb.
Reptillian said:
$50 bucks (or it's distant future equivalent) says the first Venusian city engineers don't filter the Venusian atmosphere adequately for hydrogen sulfide and the city smells like rotten eggs. I've been to cities on Earth (Rotorua, New Zealand) that reek of rotten eggs and the hydrogen sulfide content there can't be more than a few parts per million.
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I've lived there, gone to school there. It's really not that bad. After two weeks you hardly smell it anymore.
 
Reptillian

Reptillian

Hamburgler Extraordinaire
methylatedghosts said:
I've lived there, gone to school there. It's really not that bad. After two weeks you hardly smell it anymore.
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I was only there for a few days, I should have stayed longer I guess. In that few days I had someone make fun of my clothes, had a water balloon thrown at my back while I was out jogging, and was attacked by seagulls. I assumed I had overstayed my welcome.
 
M

Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
apophenia said:
Because all our eggs are in one basket.
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Which colonizing the Venusian atmosphere would do almost nothing to mitigate. There are no resources that are feasibly useable/reachable on Venus which would allow human proliferation from there. It would be a death trap if something happened to humans on Earth.

Someplace like Mars would be a much better argument for spreading our eggs than the Venusian atmosphere :p
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Riverwolf said:
I don't know what a Cadillac plan is, but I assume it has something to do with fancy race cars.
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I know race cars, and a typical Cadillac is no race car. :no:

IMO, a Cadillac is a car for someone who needs to get around but who hates cars and would spend all day in his living room if he could, so he gets the closest mobile equivalent.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
9-10ths_Penguin said:
I know race cars, and a typical Cadillac is no race car. :no:

IMO, a Cadillac is a car for someone who needs to get around but who hates cars and would spend all day in his living room if he could, so he gets the closest mobile equivalent.
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I don't know my cars. A car is just a car, all cars are the same to me.
 
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