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[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago (2 children)

4th panel is definitely mexico, i can recognise it with that sepia filter.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Breezewood, PA, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I am clearly not hip to popular culture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Joke aside, it’s definitely Breezewood.

I’ve been passing through that location for the last 30+ years, and there are unmistakable signs in this picture. It’s a very old one though, as most of these businesses are no longer there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Looks like Provo Utah to me, Roadhouse roadhouse out of frame on the left

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Not current Mexico, pa after its conquered by mexico in 2073.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm currently reading A City on Mars, by that web cartoonist guy and his wife. So far they are strongly arguing that stages 1, 2, and 3 are not actually feasible and that we should wait until technology is there and jump straight to 4. Basically the only reason the ISS works is because it's next to earth, you need way more support around the crew (i.e. way more people) if you can only launch a rocket there in a launch window every two years, it takes 6 months to get there, and it's too far away to do live comms.

It's been quite good if you're into that stuff. It has a chapter on space sex, and I just read a section on how the NASA tampon thing wasn't really about how NASA engineers don't understand women, but then gives an example that shows they definitely don't but it's not because of the tampon thing.

They also specifically address the single rocket landing then add more rockets to make a city thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I want to subscribe to NASA not understanding women facts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Really good book.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Oh the irony of adding a watermark to that pic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You'd hope if we had an opportunity to start fresh we'd chill with the roads and put more public transport and walkable city design in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lol. I live in a city where they deliberately tore all that put and replaced it with highways.

They would not allow any public transit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

3rd stage needs a tiny Dollar General.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

*Quick Stop Groceries, with two drug dealers standing out front.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Not that Elon would ever be brave enough to actually get on a rocket to Mars, but if he did, he'd control the air supply like in Total Recall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That picture looks familiar

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Good eye! It is a famous photo that has been used for critiquing America or capitalism.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/breezewood-pennsylvania

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

luckily this is not going to happen as america is not interested in colonization without at least some genocide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

McDonald's would be getting their logo there by panel 2.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

By that time it'll probably be even worse in ways we can't imagine yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Toxic perchlorates from Martian regolith add a certain Je ne sais quois to the smell of Asphalt, Tire particulates, and ozone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ohh, so that's why Mark Watney was growing all those potatoes.

[–] DestroyerOfWorlds 4 points 4 months ago

Do you like camping in a submarine in a volcano of dust and radiation? Let's Go to the Colonies!

[–] JohnDClay 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unless we cure cancer, it'll all be underground since there's so much ionizing radiation on the surface. Hopefully that would prevent it from becoming car centric, but who knows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That and the difference in gravity. A large portion of the vehicles bought for vanity today wouldn’t work there because physics, so reliable mass transit would be crucial

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

After deep space exploration ramps up it'll be up to the corporations to name everything... the IBM stellarsphere, Microsoft galaxy, planet Starbucks...

[–] Express_pickle 2 points 4 months ago

Samsung galaxy (quite literally)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh...

Oh, no....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The logic is sound 🖖🏽

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn, gas is cheaper on Mars than in California rn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If I travel to Mars to save money on fuel, am I really saving money? 🤔 Might as well relocate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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