Happy Hour [11/8/23)

I need a drink

Guillermo Söhnlein, surviving founder of the brilliantly ill-advised carbon fiber Titanic submersible, has another questionable idea. Colonize Venus by the year 2050. Even if his last venture had not failed in such a spectacular way, I’ve read enough Philip K Dick to know this is a terrible idea.

Space is creepy AF. But don’t take my word for it; listen to Saturn.

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/08/chilling-recording-reveals-saturns-haunting-sound-that-will-send-shivers-down-your-spine.html

All costs aside, and with a more reputable company, would you go, Deadsplinters?

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18 Comments

  1. ooo..those space sounds sound just like old alien invasion movies

    not sure why people are worried tho…… cant hear them in space

    and really you should be more concerned about the vacuum and radiation

    realistically….. we are the biggest dumbest most destructive and vindictive life form in our solar system

    beyond it….fuck knows…im sure some other planets spawned stupid life like us…not so sure about intelligent

    • forgot to say….oh fuck yeah i would go…sign me up to be the first loonatic…resident of luna

      • Send me a postcard. I’m going down with the Earth ship.

        • you know i’d send you a picture of my butt right?

          the moon is all well on the moon

    • It sounds like it’s straight outta a 50s sci-fi flick, lol.

  2. Does it have to be a real planet or place? Because I think we’re too dumb for real space.

    • We’re too dumb to take care of the one we’re already on. So of course we wanna go screw up a new place.

      • Yeah Neil DeGrasse Tyson made a similar comment a long while back when asked about terraforming other planets. Basically if we have the knowledge and resources to do that elsewhere why not just fix our own planet.

  3. Nope. Never. Not for funzies like space tourism. Not even if Earth was about to implode. I would chose to be left behind (and maybe shoot myself in the head after I’ve had enough drinks and possibly drugs).

    • Same, we can wave goodbye together.

    • I’ve repeatedly said the Left Behind scenario is the best chance for most of us.

      Getting rid of all the nutjob bigots who want to be Raptured releases a lot of housing and resources.

  4. It would be like riding Spirit Air for six months only you have to go to the bathroom in your seat and the climate control was worse.

    • But would there be snacks?

    • This part!!!

      Until the folks at places like JPL figure out that whole… was it the 2nd law, or the 4th, of Thermodynamics–that has to do with heat-transferrance & energy in an engine/system, *and* someone fiiiiinally figures out how to travel a space-craft “rock-skipping” style across the tops of gravitational waves, so that we DON’T need to figure out how to travel *that* much faster than the speed of light to get those millions/billions of Light-Years away?

      I’ll stay here on Earth, Thankyouverymuch!

      Because I don’t wanna be Idiocracy-ied into the future–orrrrrr poofed out of Existence, Like what happened to Ryan Reynolds in that one episode of The Outer Limits–because ain’t NO way I’d ever pass that whole Genetics test😉😆😂

  5. I definitely needed a drink so made a long solo drive to one of my favorite breweries in Nor Cal.  Holy shit, I’m going to be in trouble with how much I’m going to try to bring back in our baggage!

    https://moksabrewing.com

    • Lol, it’s worth a try.

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