Ddub

joined 1 year ago
[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Rivers are estimated to be 0.06% of all water on the planet, of which 96% is the ocean, literal drop in the bucket

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Hard to choose a favorite element, the Mc Escher macaroni, the swordless king of spades, the unified houses of spades & hearts under their androgynous queen, the well known face card ace of hearts or the angstrom of black butts...

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Seeing the first person to spell subtle with a b

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

kinda, dark energy is the unknown explanation for the expansion of the universe. Once we understand it enough to know what it is responsible for it'll no longer be dark.

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The saying goes that when the Brits were marking out Toronto the surveyor put a stake in the road and said, let's 'ave a new road 'ere

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I think you missed my point, I don't believe we have a self sustaining population on earth (yet)

[–] Ddub@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't disagree that having a self sustaining population of humans somewhere other than earth will be an important milestone.

But a much more pressing milestone is a the first self sufficient population, which I don't see mars supporting