How about transferring and storing all that power

"It's fine bruh, just build like a giant battery bank or something." <:hmkGrin:284219474440355840>

Need better batteries.

Combine that with regenerative breaking and the fact that 20% of the US power grid is from hydro power plants

I mean, at the car charging stations, the prices fluctuate like crazy, where at night, its pretty much free, to the afternoon where its realyl fucking expensive

Actually, I think the best argument for nuclear power is that The Simpsons, which has a track record of foreshadowing (if not outright predicting) future events, features Homer Simpson working at a nuclear power plant

Dont get me wrong though, combustion power is definately not very efficient

especially with how much of it going to heat energy

firey explosion energy

@GingaBomber Yeah, the least efficient part of a car's engine is the combustion reaction

But electric cars still have to solve alot of issues

@GingaBomber most people charge their cars at night though

I don't see any problems with electric vehicles

And I can argue that i can refuel any time of the day

o7

I put my faith in the thought that by trying to build a self sustaining colony on Mars will result in us not needing to worry about global warming aside from trying to maintain things that are astecticly pleasing

How long till the environmentalists complain

I think we need more advances in AI/Robotics before we can actually commit the resources to any moon/planet colonizing.

Exosuits, for example.

And what has musk been doing?

His best.

But we need more people can just Musk.

Grandstanding

If you don't force a hard deadline one yourself, things will never get done.

Musk has been grandstanding

When they say outstanding in his field, ill be more likely to assume it literally than metaphorically

Didn't Newt Gingritch say we'd have a moon colony by 2020 if he was elected president in 2008/12?

That shit was hilarious.

I think that's because he was going to concentrate funding on NASA, but it was still a *very* optimistic estimate

Only reason id see them building a moon base is for taking advantage of the low grav for scientific research

the low gravity there wouldnt be good on the body

There is very little reason to build something on the moon except maybe to act as a place to build large craft

I think the quickest way for us to create artifical gravity fields would be to be forced onto another celestial surface.

Just tell the government we found the possibility of there being oil on the moon.
Problem solved.

The ISS is great, but that isn't a planet or moon.

the moon is boring asf

not much reason to live there

Sorry, that was a bad joke on my part. I wasn't even trying. lol

mars however is an absolute gold mine

'eh.

Mars might be worth.

Do we know if it has any exploitables?

We could turn the moon into a giant weapon's platform.

@JadenFrostwolf the sad fact is you could tell trump that and it would probably happen faster than his wall

@GingaBomber the surface is covered in charged perchlorates

Get that wall up first

only slightly more hospitible and it would be a perfect place for bacteria

Well, he certainly got his gorilla channel up quick, didn't he? <:Kappa:327142715592540171>

Gotta spend my tax payer dollars on that wall which can't defeat aircraft and work visas

we can only hope there is a significant amount of water on mars

Or Canada

Walls do work though.

otherwise it's hard to make methane

Well, walls are not entirely ineffective, or else they wouldn't have been used so much in history.

Walls work, sure, but idk if we have the resources to protect or maintain it.

you rather pay taxes spent on wellfare to the mexicans that get across?

They aren't perfect but they have a huge impact.

At least hes deporting them

It's not like we're gonna try to make the American version of the Great Wall

@ping I would argue that the moon is very worth going to because then we could build larger structures/ships in orbit due to the lower gravity

*Or will we?*

@Revan there's no reason we can't do that in LEO

Yo, want to continue this in chat?

talk

How about you let communities take care of their own and give me my money back so I can actually help the homeless dude down the street?

@ping No, you're not thinking large enough

@Revan But then we would have to pressurize those ships/buildings

what?

And if we tried, I feel like it would go poorly.

I'm talking about things bigger than a mile

yeah even then

we can do that in LEO

The fuck is LEO

low earth orbit

Ah

There's still a larger risk of it falling out of LEO than falling out of LLO (Low Lunar Orbit) though

Someone's been playing lots of KSP.

Ksp is great

I've never played but I want to get it one day.

And I have way too many hours in that game.

KSP is fun, I got bored quickly.

@Revan how the fuck is it going to fall out of LEO

@Dionara mods.

All the mods

if I wanna play a modded game in space, I'd play Space Engineers.

Don't stop modding until your computer flat out gets up and walks away

when i go from KSP to SE it makes me depressed

because no orbital mechanics :(

@ping The same way anything falls out of any orbit. It gets too heavy for the speed it's moving

@Revan no.

@ping you do know orbital decay is a thing right?

^

Don't we have to constantly push the ISS back into the correct orbit?

^

*Unlike what the Chinese did with Taidong*

Fucking slanty-eye nerds, can't even keep things in space.

@Grenade123 i'm aware but it's minimal

Basically every supply mission involves a little boost back into orbit

the ISS is very low

so it needs more of a push