I think the astronaut life is not for you...
Some people would happily accept the indignities of space flight, for the unique opportunity to go.
And as you point out, fixing the urine recycling system is a critical job, it's not like it's busy work. If it doesn't get repaired, everyone dies of thirst.
Lol, yeah that's a damn good question.
You could use a device like a smoke detector. If you can detect smoke, you can detect farts!
I actually totally agree with that.
From everything I've learned about Mars it seems to be statistically improbable that there has never been life on Mars.
Given how often we find Martian rock here on earth, ejecta from meteor strikes on Mars. It's only logical that there have also been many meteor strikes here on earth that have sent material out to Mars. And given that there's been more recent findings to suggest bacteria can survive the vacuum of space, protected deep inside porous rock, as well as survive the temperatures of re-entry into atmosphere... It seems practically unavoidable that the earth has "contaminated" Mars with terrestrial life, or that earth was contaminated with life from Mars at some time (or many times) in the past.
And of course we know that Mars used to have liquid water on the surface. I think we have all the necessary elements for life, including, many millions of years for relatively rare events to occur.
Also, that link didn't work for me, not sure why.
Well, I've said what I thought I should say. So I'm happy to butt out of your conversation now.
Well I guess to spell it out more bluntly, I think you're being unreasonable.
I also think it's obvious that he wasn't pretending he was still banned, he simply wasn't moving on because he didn't feel he should have had to essentially apologize for something he didn't do. What he wanted was recognition that the claimed reasoning for the ban was wrong.
Unbanning him at that point was great, but he still wanted more. Perhaps expecting more was unrealistic for him, but he wanted more, that's why he was still arguing.
So I don't know, probably just dropping it at that point may have been the right thing, but banning him again was petty.
Hah, I kinda can't believe I read through this drama, but I did.
Squid, as an outside observer, I saw this:
You are both offended. Considering that aspect alone, this is a hard position to find a resolution from.
This ban seems to have been the result of a single comment thread where you assert that he was lying about facts. He asserts that he was not. I'm sure there's more nuance, but there was a disagreement, I think that's the gist of it.
You made a peace offering of sorts, offering to unban him if he jumped through a hoop and admitted a fact you thought he was denying. He had no problem jumping through that hoop and he clarified his position. Though he also claimed there was no wrongdoing in the first place and challenged you to specify the wrongdoing that occurred. That's him going on the offense, implying that you did something wrong. In response you ignored his question and moved the goal post. And then the combination of his stubbornness and your defensiveness resulted in him being banned again.
So, I get that he's being stubborn, but he is also being honest. You are not really being honest. Continuing to argue your point while holding the ban over him and requiring him to make more concessions or else... That's not really fair.
I think you just angered Ares. I hope you have the right boons to take him down!
I'm completely serious. And that's really my position, humans are awesome.
Are you kidding! Humans are awesome! And that rock is just sitting there, cold and irradiated. We can't possibly make it worse, it's a hellhole as it is, we can only make it better.
He gets a private suite?!