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   0xC0DEC0DE07E8 (c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 10:03:58 JST 0xC0DEC0DE07E8

   • Zach Weinersmith

   @ZachWeinersmith I really need to read this copy of A City on Mars that’s on my bedside table, but I thought you’d enjoy this.

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     Uncle Vinny (uncle_vinny@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 10:40:51 JST Uncle Vinny

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @cryptadamist I love it, but darn it all I must quibble about the cost of shipping food around. Relative to the carbon footprint (or really any footprint) of producing food, shipping it costs nothing. Producing and discarding things is by far the biggest environmental problem, not the moving around, thanks to how outrageously efficient sea travel is. (But plz correct me if I’m wrong!)

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     James aka "Baldy" (justabaldguy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 10:41:39 JST James aka "Baldy"

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs TIL! Thanks for sharing, I never put 2 and 2 together for this one. Makes total sense, I'll have to read this article carefully.

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     NA (mimblewimble@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 11:48:57 JST NA

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs As an electrical engineer, I've run the numbers on a magnetosphere for the red planet. It's not impossible from a power perspective. What really is a challenge is deploying either a shielding Lagrange generator (a silly solution but seems to be what everyone talks about) or, far more feasible a simple coil of high temperature superconducting cable around the equator. So, ALL you have to do is make thousands of miles of yet to be invented high temperature superconductors.

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     Steven Smith (stvnsmth@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 23:59:48 JST Steven Smith

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs 57 years from the Wright brothers to Yuri Gagarin, I wonder what your take would have been then.