Geekend Update: Synthetic Tissue, PhoneSat, and Mars One

[Ashley Esqueda]

- Ads/viewership goes down
- Show announces they can't afford to send food
- Morbidly curious people tune in to watch live feed of starving expats
- Ad revenues go up
- Food sent at last possible moment
- Rinse, repeat

Wow. Even though I figured it was a bad idea, that specific scenario didn't come to mind. All the death potential but none of the gore of bloodsport in the Colosseum, like a more "civilized" form of watching condemned prisoners get mauled to death....

... I'm ... I'm gonna go lie down and think about fairies with cotton-candy hair for a bit.

That's probably best. I'm a real ray of sunshine!

 

[Formica Archonis]

... I'm ... I'm gonna go lie down and think about fairies with cotton-candy hair for a bit.

That's probably best. I'm a real ray of sunshine!

You'll know you're doing well when your friends have a suicide prevention line phone number stored next to yours!

 

[Ashley Esqueda]

... I'm ... I'm gonna go lie down and think about fairies with cotton-candy hair for a bit.

That's probably best. I'm a real ray of sunshine!

You'll know you're doing well when your friends have a suicide prevention line phone number stored next to yours!

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[Camaranth]

So question for Marsone: do I get paid whilst training? (Because I would totally sign up just for the training)

and then to the banks; can I take out a loan?

I've looked at the Marsone plans and it almost sounds plausible. Then the rational part of my brain kicks in and it just seems like a one-way ticket to a shallow red grave and a footnote in a horrible histories book.

What's that saying "Necessity is the mother of invention" so I suppose we could make the technological leaps that are needed. Though with reality TV model I think interest and funding will run out long before the launch date.

 

[Formica Archonis]

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You're going to have to try harder then. I'm finding this conversation quite amusing!

 

[Ashley Esqueda]

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You're going to have to try harder then. I'm finding this conversation quite amusing!

I'm like Schroedinger's Emotions. When you talk to me, you're both depressed and amused!

 

[Formica Archonis]

I'm like Schroedinger's Emotions. When you talk to me, you're both depressed and amused!

Nah, I was bipolar until I stuck my head in a particle accelerator. Now I'm an emotional monopole.

(I dive into the barrel of emotions and physics humor and hit bottom on the first joke. Highly dubious achievement unlocked.)