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  • Null@pawb.socialtoWork Reform@lemmy.world•I'm not asking to be rich.
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    8 months ago

    “To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in that suffering.”

    That said: It takes a good deal of money to fund any search, especially enough time to actually contemplate meaning… Thus, money, to some extent or another, is necessary to truly survive - and the extent of that money greatly contributes to the extent of survival. It does not guarantee survival - but it is required to have the opportunity.

  • Null@pawb.socialtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Behold. The power of ,,how about no?"
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    8 months ago

    lvl 2 player at the lvl 15 end-game citadel: I attempt to break down the walls of the impenetrable fortress with the Sword of Doom

    "A bright flash emanates from the place of contact as the two unbreakable items collide. It expands into a small explosion in an instant, letting out a deafening noise. When your eyes clear from the flash, ears still ringing, a small, 2 foot deep crater is broken out of the 5 foot thick unbreakable wall. Half the sword is vaporized from the heat of the impact, and the powerful runes are destroyed. The shockwave hits your character in a rush of heat and force. Roll a Dex save (or a little force damage).

    Many people far and wide heard the impact. A dragon is rising in the distance from the tower of the dark mages… Wanna run?"

  • Null@pawb.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•On a low gravity planet, would it make more sense to build habitat domes or habitat sky-scrapers?
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    8 months ago

    First of all, domes in general aren’t a great idea except for maybe greenhouses - at least on planets in our system. NASA and ESA have done some cool concept experiments as to what pressurized architecture could look like, and it’s a lot more like a cross between a space station module and Earth architecture.

    Second - assuming we’ve adapted/evolved to the low gravity, skyscrapers are probably the way to go. That said, if we’ve adapted that heavily we probably have similar adaptations to the atmosphere etc. - in which case architecture would probably be similar to Earth architecture, but able to build higher assuming the same materials.

    But if we were trying to colonize a low-gravity world, we’d have to use an orbital station with centripetal-force “gravity” and only research stations on the surface, with a science crew rotation every 6-12 ish months to prevent bone loss.

    This is actually the plan for the Moon and then Mars - use Gateway as a station to resupply and host crew rotations for Moon and Mars missions, and eventually to support long-term habitation. But until such a station exists, Lunar Gateway will be used for a waystation for crew rotations between the Moon and Earth.

    Space engineering is about to become a very high demand field, on the absolute frontier of human exploration…