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Infinity Ammo
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About time NASA did some alien probing. Give them a taste of their own medicine!
I think we should simply take trees to Mars, plant them and take the oxygen they give off. Obviously we will need greenhouses as it can be a bit chilly up there... and liquid water... Okay, let’s stick with the mechanical tree!
I've been doing a lot of walking these past few months, gyms shut, too cold for cycling, can't run but I like to get out and do something.
Anyhow, whilst walking I've recently exchanged playlists for podcasts, and more recently I've been listening to a couple of Joe Rogan's; he's a UFC commentator. Two of the more recent podcasts I've listened too have had Brian Cox on them, and honestly, they were fascinating to listen too.
Two of the elements that took me back were his belief that we are more likely than not to be the only intelligent species in our galaxy (not to be mistaken for the universe), but also his belief that at no point in the future - our future will we ever be able to travel to another galaxy. I actually found that a little short sighted on his part.
When he was explaining the improbability (rather than impossibility) that other intelligent life within the milky way exists, it actually made a whole heap of sense.
I've always been of the belief that there has to be life out there simply because of the size of everything, but when we take into account all the precise conditions that must've been met here for us to exist now as we do to be mimicked on other worlds, the likelihood is ... well, unlikely.
We've only been around in our current form for some 250,000 years, and the Earth has been here for some 6billion years? When you take into account all the specific conditions that must've had to be met, it's a miracle that we even exist.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity successfully completed its historic first flight - CNN
"Ingenuity, which is a technology demonstration, flew for about 40 seconds total on Monday. The 4-pound helicopter spun up its two 4-foot blades, rose up 10 feet (3 meters) in the air, hovered, took a photo, and touched back down on Mars."
Presumably, photos and video will be forthcoming.