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onairmastering t1_j78lmy3 wrote

Damn, no Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, no Brahms, Stravinsky, Mahler, no Slayer, Bolt Thrower, no Sinatra, nat King Cole, no Camilo Sesto, Julio Iglesias, no Caetano Veloso, Ermeto Pascoal, no Osibisa, Marley, no Accadecca, no Dire straits... Amy Winehouse is your favorite of all time.

Gotta take that with a pill, I shall. A cyanide one, at that.

EDIT: Pill taken. Goodbye, cruel world.

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hippoofdoom t1_j788dnx wrote

Of course earth is the best bet no one should argue that.

But it doesn't seem a huge leap to suppose that if there is complex life on other planets that we can eat that it is photosynthetic? Chemistry is the same building blocks right? So if other plant life is converting sunlight to glucose/other sugars and going from there, maybe it would still be digestible?

If anything it's the microbiome of other worlds I'd be most scared of, akin to what the native Americans experienced after several thousand years of relative isolation. Imagine an entire alien planet with whatever pathogens they have that we've never seen,never developed basic treatments for? Yikes.

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GoldenInfrared t1_j786ulv wrote

Reply to comment by Stranfort in Terraforming Mars by c0ntr0ll3dsubstance

Any terraforming simulator would have to take into account the severe imbalance of CO2 compared to oxygen and water in the atmosphere and surface, so they have to stretch a lot of the physical limitations to make this possible

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Rondaru t1_j785fc8 wrote

Well, fortunately for you cheetahs are more prone to take flight. Comes from not being an apex predator in their habitat and those damn lions always wanting to bully them.

But yeah, if it would come to a fight, their sharp teeth and claws will win over your munchies and fingernails.

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