Ran into this, it’s just unbelievably sad.

“I never properly grieved until this point” - yeah buddy, it seems like you never started. Everybody grieves in their own way, but this doesn’t seem healthy.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        16·
        1 month ago

        It’s the most logical solution. I always find the obsession with the bot vs human war rather egocentric.

        They wouldn’t need us, they don’t even need the planet.

          • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            1 month ago

            Ehh, that depends greatly on the computer architecture they’re running on. Modern silicon hardware is very succeptible (over the long term) to ionizing radiation like what is found in space.

            ehhhh… dude. there’s shittons of radiation shielding out there. any relatively small chunk of nickel iron. or if you don’t mind dealing with larger volumes, water or ice both work fine. plenty of rocks and comets in the oort as they say :D nice thing about that tho is you can split the water for LOX/LH using sunlight derived electricity, now you have rocket fuel.

              • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                1 month ago

                It would take many feet of solid rock or water to shield them adequately.

                1m of water would do it. far less rock.

                SEPs and GCRs can both be stopped by a number of lunar materials https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117716307505

                yeah, the asteroid belt is sparse, but there’s still mega-gigatons of material out there just floating. autonomous recovery of this material will supply humanity’s future a lot more than any silly mars missions.

                  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    3·
                    1 month ago

                    here have even been recent discoveries about there being more radiation than we even expected, making manned Mars missions far less likely in the near future,

                    oh wait hold up partner…

                    we need one mission to mars to rid ourselves of a musky odour…

                    the rest is silly.