> While caves seem a naturally ideal way to jump start a lunar base, it's a very dangerous notion.

It's all very dangerous. It's less dangerous than other options. Over time, any exposed structure or manually excavated void are subject to deterioration. Using a small section of a moon lava tunnel is reasonable, given the current state of knowledge regarding terrestrial lava tunnel stability. Humanity does have some extensive experience encountering and qualifying lava tunnels. It's not necessary to use the whole tunnel, nor is a singular enclosure a likely approach, since the habitat will have to be a modular installation over time. I assume best-effort. If part of the tunnel failed, the worst being an entrance that has no local branching or manual tunneling to open another entrance, you could get trapped...unironically in an enclosure designed to fare well under the condition of being sealed in (granted, a for a finite time).

> Far, far better to excavate, build a known, designed structure, then bury it in regolith.

"better" here implies some set of subjective values. Economically? It's more expensive...for a number of reasons, the least of which is the excavation and inability to expand uniformly. Politically? It's going to take longer. First mover is the defacto expert, until there is an alternative. You can go on and on. Most importantly, the tested capability limits and recognized needs, will enable following projects to be built for longer-term habitation.

> So would increasing the number of relationships permitted in your account, because there are a lot of knobs with IDs to block, too.

I cannot agree enough. Over 20 years later, I have to prune my lists of inactives to allow for the new batch of sockpuppets and trolls from the, increasingly rare, free account, signups.

This story is in violation of Betteridge's Law of Headlines.

It is not, despite the hilariously misplaced griping.

The first Shazam was great because it presented the realistic infantile ego that superheroes would likely have (and some young viewers would like to imagine) and made the characterization endearing. Almost every hollywood story includes moral or physical victories, in the end. Not sure how you can enjoy movies at all if you are trying to avoid predictability.

> I feel that people are getting worse at social interaction and are falling out of practice in reading subtle cues in human-to-human communication

Luckily, this is a skill that's mostly genetic so it doesn't matter and certainly doesn't explain why media has gotten worse at relying on it.

Not sure how this thought
which is obviously wrong
got a +mod. Slashdot.

> High prices for sundries and cost of gas aside, the dislike of gas stations is probably due to
*cut a bunch of marginal reasons nobody thinks about*

Much more likely it's simply an inaccurate analysis (intentionally or not).

The Star Trek mobile game is pretty popular. This is still a ridiculous overpayment, which points to either misdirection during the sale or as a cover for some other transaction between associated parties.

> This propaganda, this LIE had one purpose, which was to try and negate the actual worst drought in over a 1000 years, which was during the 1930s, "The Dust Bowl."

I have a doubt as to what you are getting at, since nobody can negate the historical facts.

> Were in CA where I live, we get up to 60" inches of rainfall on an average season

Where you live isn't really relevant. Southern California, is.

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