• ColonelKataffy [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    they'd be fine; they're billionaires. they'll bootstrap themselves back to earth just like matt damon

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      In the book/movie it required a lot of help from China so if it happened irl it would be super funny if China was like "lol no"

    • ProgAimerGirl [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      you see, billionaires are perfectly reasonable and completely tolerant of the idea of eating a potato they grew with their own shit, if said shit potato was the only food source available for hundreds of millions of miles, they're just normal people, like you or me, you see?

  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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    6 months ago

    astronaut-2 desperation doesn't necessarily breed sufficient ingenuity to overcome the fact that mars is completely inhospitable to human existence?

    astronaut-1 stop using up our precious few minutes of oxygen remaining and start ingenuiting

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    We need Gundam style orbital colonies, not rich nerds playing spaceman. We don't need either I guess, but oribital colonies would be cool as hell and we could have wars with then and stuff

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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    6 months ago

    crazy that NASA was telling the truth about this whole planet being a desert

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    It's the Fyre Festival but worse. They're on a rock hostile to life that's 140 miles away from everything.