Morning Discussion

by Xav de Matos, Aug 20, 2010 5:00am PDT

I always seem to enter bouts of hardcore portable gaming at random times. I'll go weeks forgetting about my consoles or PC and focus on playing games on my Nintendo DS or PSP Go.

Lately, I haven't touched either handheld system but with God of War returning the PSP, I foresee that will change very soon.

I own an iPhone and I've purchased a lot of games for it but I never really use the device for gaming. There's some great software available, don't get me wrong, but I just don't use it. Maybe it's because I'm still stuck in the dark ages with a 3G and it runs like a pirate with a peg leg or because the battery is terrible after years of constant iPod use but it's rarely my portable gaming platform of choice.

What device fuels your portable gaming urges?

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last night i was watching carl sagan's cosmos (a personal journey) and thought, is it worth our while, both as a country and globe, to send humans to mars? what would it be, six months each way? is it even feasible in a healthy sense? mars is exponentially further away than the moon.

Aug 20, 2010 1:12pm PDT

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last night i was watching carl sagan's cosmos (a personal journey) and thought, is it worth our while, bo... : EvilDolemite
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  It's 8 months each way. And in 4-5 months in space even the most fit astronaut exercising while up there ... : derelict515
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    have we figured out a way to simulate gravity yet? maybe a crazy spinning spaceship? come on we've got ... : mikecyb
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      i mean where else are we going to go? mercury and venus are way too hot and toxic. the gas giants are so... : EvilDolemite
      
      I'd rather see the money spent on more unmanned missions. Rovers are cute! : daedraug
      
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      also I don't think we can even walk on any of the gas giants because the gravity is so intense on them. ... : mikecyb
      
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      i don't think there exists a material on earth strong and plentiful enough to build into a space suit tha... : electroly
      
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      does jupiter even have a rocky core? I was under the impression that it's entirely atmopshere : mikecyb
      
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      they're not sure but it's speculated that it does : electroly
      
      I guess it's less rocky and more like highly compressed gas or liquid. fucking gas giants, how do they w... : mikecyb
      
      It's solid somewhere down there. At that pressue almost everything is solid. : cerealSAM2
      
      which is just damned mind boggling... that's a whole 'lotta gas : proclone1
      
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      It's speculated that the pressure is so huge on Jupiter, that its outer core is composed of metallic hydrogen. Which is hydrogen compressed under such huge pressure it becomes metall.
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
      
      So yeah, we will never get to explore that planet not because it's made of gas, but because absolutely everything gets crushed on it into its core.
      
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      It's speculated that the pressure is so huge on Jupiter, that its outer core is composed of metallic hy... : Fpsnut
      
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      Seems to me it would have to. It's undoubtedly absorbed a lot of solid objects over the last few billion... : DinK
      
      yeah but the gravity and atmospheric pressure on that planet are both so high, and its composition is alm... : mikecyb
      
      metallic hydrogen. : steelsamurai
      
      We can't even build anything that will be useful on Venus. Jupiter is something that is past all non-magi... : steelsamurai
      
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      thinking of the distance between planets is scary. earth to mars - as little as 36 million miles if timi... : EvilDolemite
      
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      Honey on your way back from Jupiter can you stop at mars and pick up some fries? : proclone1
      
      Oh why'd you get a Large I just wanted a small : proclone1
      
      Looking at an image of the solar system orbits actually to scale is pretty crazy after being used to just... : DinK
      
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      It's the moons of the gas giants which would be the target for any manned exploration in that area in the... : Bold
      
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      Sorry for bringing Hollywood into this, but wasn't Avatar's Pandora a moon of a gas giant? : proclone1
      
      I believe that is correct : mikecyb
      
      how about this instead. MAKE FASTER SHIPS. maybe some nice VASIMIR engines? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... : hirez
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      if you tried to simulate earth's gravity in a spinning section on a ship the size that we are practically... : electroly
      
      well yeah it would have to be a pretty huge ship, but even if you could simulate like 1/2 or 1/4 of earth... : mikecyb
      
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      It doesn't necessarily have to look like Babylon 5. There's a concept where you take the capsule and tie ... : Sailor of Fortune
      
      Almost like a frisbee then? : ShekkyBoy
  - If they approached me and said "we need you to go to mars and set up this equipment so we can start sendi... : uglysad
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    Valeri Polyakov lived in 0g ofr more than 14 months. "Polyakov, a medical doctor, said that he volunt... : Stoned Gargoyle
    - Well I know 80 year olds who can do those things so that makes sense. That doesn't make him equipped to d... : derelict515
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    I think, whether or not it was made public, that our first trip to Mars wouldn't be assuming a trip back. : Ebu
    - Why not? You could send fuel, parts, etc. ahead with robotic missions, so you'd know if you had the suppl... : Conan
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  Mars is not exponentially further away than the moon, unless your exponent is like 1.38 something. : bipolar
  - closest distance = 54 million km. Earth to moon = 380,000 km. 54 / .38 = 142, so you're talking an expone... : steelsamurai
- Is it worth our while to just stay? : royalally
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  It would be interesting to know what geologically we will find on the moon and/or mars upon mining them. ... : cerealSAM2
  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Kvo6eVPtw : Sailor of Fortune
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  Cloning + brain backups = extended life. But that leads to overcrowding of the planet.. so we need anothe... : snuff
  - Not if you kill the original. We'll start a quasi-Darwinist faith where the soul can only exist in one bo... : steauengeglase
  - I want the ability to regenerate the new body like in Doctor Who. Can we just funnel all of our money in... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
- Definitely, we can colonize it and then exploit the Mars born natives by denying them air. : Sailor of Fortune
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  Healthy sense? You mean radiation and loss of bone density? I'd think that is a risk we are more than wil... : steauengeglase
  - It would probably be hard to find an astronaut who wouldn't volunteer for a trip to Mars. If it was a gua... : pyide
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  It shouldn't take 6 months by the time we decide to go. A new rocket being developed by a former astrona... : twifosp
- We don't want to anyway it's just going to open up a portal into Hell : cap n KRUNCH
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ5sWfhkpE0 : retardhumper
- GET YO ASS TO MARS : ctlaltl33t
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  Think of the knowledge and technology we would gain in the effort. Do you know how many everyday material... : rudds
  - not to mention winning over other civs ~ : darkT
  - Another war with Germany should advance our space program. I think that's the order of tech advaces. : phil_mckraken
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  It's really only worthwhile if there are communists to beat to the punch. : cpt_gloval
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    Red China is gonna pwn on your freedom loving asses : darkT
    - What are they gonna do, skim rocket fuel from the sewers? : cpt_gloval
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  It would make more sense to send another rover team to Mars to set up a base of operations and try to gro... : melkore
  - Ya they could grow some green so the folks that make it there first would have something to party with. : dante2010
- We can easily do it tech wise, $$ wise though not so much. : gmd

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