That's a pretty decent amount of game to be able to run in 64kB.

I did have a memory expansion on the ISA bus of my IBM 5150. The additional 384kB brought it up to 448kB, which was enough to run most but not all DOS software that would run on an XT (which could be expanded to 640kB onboard.)

I probably should have piggybacked the system memory, I could have gotten it up to 512kB which really would have run almost everything. But instead I got a 286-6 with 1MB and ran Xenix on it.

There's no reason it needs any more than a USB-C cable to carry power and compressed video. When I think "substantial" cable I think something like a VGA cable, where even the narrowest ones are quite a bit bigger than that (and also absolute smeg quality.) By the same token, there's no reason it needs to be driven by a computer any larger than a typical power bank, which will fit comfortably in pocket or purse. Your average decent phone has enough processing power to drive such a device, unless you have high expectations for graphics. What it doesn't have is enough battery power to last very long, but if you're eliminating the screen and making it thicker you can solve that problem easily enough.

All of the real problems relate to the hardware on your head. Making it smaller and lighter and at least equally importantly solving the focal depth problem are the real issues.

The monorail was placed off the strip for the benefit of the MGM Grand and Ballyâ(TM)s. It was designed to be worthless to everyone else, bypassing other properties. Then it was extended to go to the Flamingo and near Harrahâ(TM)s and Imperial Palace. From everywhere else it's a substantial distance away. By the time you've gotten to it, you could have walked most of the way to your destination, unless you're going from one end to the other. If they had put it over the strip, it would have really been something.

It's tax dollars at work to support not needing to build a wider highway, not just now but also in the future. Traffic on the route from LA to LV can literally double the time it takes to get there, while in the very best case it takes about 3 hours.

This is the same argument for the stalled California HSR project. It is a good and reasonable argument. We equate the ability to travel with freedom. Making travel more possible while also reducing transportation-related pollution is a good use of tax money. Unfortunately, we should have built a new rail corridor decades ago when it would have been more legally feasible, and a lot cheaper. It wouldn't have been HSR at the time, but it would have avoided a whole lot of senseless freeway expansion that only ever provided momentary relief.

That's 9.16% of the route. It's less than 1/10 high speed rail!

Well, no. The correct answer is never God. Even if God were real and were involved, he always works through someone else.

That entire region was populated for literally thousands of years before there even were Jews as we know them.

"many hundreds of years ago" is not a date, nor is it the first history of the region.

ED: Just saw your second paragraph. But the things you speculate on are not exactly common on Titan, if they even exist on the surface at all (it's an icy crust ,not a rocky one). And either way, it'd be much easier with compounds other than methane.

And no, there doesn't seem to be meaningful amounts of nitrates in the atmosphere at least. You can see a list here. Nitrogen compounds are cyanide and nitrile compounds.

Metabolized with what oxidizer?

It's just the opposite - methane on Titan is like nitrogen on Earth; it's things like acetylene and free hydrogen that are the potential energy sources, and to a lesser extent the more common (but less reactive) higher mass alkanes, etc.

The main problem is that LAWKI isn't even remotely compatible with existing in the cryogenic environment of Titan. There are a lot of interesting alternative chemistries, but they require basically redesigning life from scratch. We're simply not up to this task with our current technology.

Sadly it's being launched to near the equator, not the poles :( The geophysicists won out over the geochemists...

Freedom is great and neglectable, until you very suddenly don't have it.

History has not ended. The world order that makes life nice and comfy for you is not a given into the future.

It's funny how we so strongly disagree further down in the comments, but I 100% agree with you here.

0,38g being largely fine for health is... I mean, if I had to bet, I'd put my money on it probably being true, but it's anything but guaranteed. There was a private project to test this, the Mars Gravity Biosatellite, but it ran out of funding; I'm not aware of any similar experiments that have been conducted. There've been a variety of attempts to simulate various gravity on Earth, such as having people lie on tilted beds or hanging them from cranes at an angle or whatnot, but they all have obvious weaknesses.

There's not just the question of adults who visit from Earth, but also children who grow up on 0,38g, and what impact that would have to their physiology.

Venus is hot, but it's not *that* hot... ;)

NASA is getting there

It most definitely is not. Are you being deliberately obtuse?

one can do for more than a few minutes before shit implodes and burns

You clearly didn't read anything I wrote, so why should I even bother responding? (A) Literally nobody was talking about settling the surface, and (B) It's been repeatedly pointed out that basically indefinite lifespans can be achieved for surface vehicles, as backed up by peer-reviewed research from NASA. And "christoban on Slashdot disagrees with peer-reviewed research from NASA" isn't exactly a compelling argument.

B) building floating cities, which would probably take another century of engineering and investment before we could do so reliably.

We were flying balloons on Venus almost 40 years before we flew a helicopter on Mars. We directly sampled Venus's atmosphere 4 years before we sampled Mars. We successfully landed and transmitted data either 1 or 6 years (depending on your definition) from the surface of Venus vs. Mars.

Your incredulity about levels of difficulty doesn't translate to actual levels of difficulty.

You would get to keep nothing you have without them, and the richness of this nation is based on military action and always has been. You don't even understand the argument.

They may be able to continue producing potatoes. The rest of that stuff is going to suffer from the increased unpredictability, especially the grain