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Loooooooooool!

I don't understand what benefits will accrue from marooning dozens of people on mars. Will it reinvigorate space exploration to know that we sent out a Jamestown colony?

Yes but I prefer the ones that are ribbed and give a tingling sensation.

I don't think so. When I was a college student it never occurred to me that I would want to remove the tattoo. It perfectly suited me, and I didn't understand that I would change over time and outgrow the tattoo. This is how kids think. They think that the way things are will remain forever. Forever young!

Some advice for people considering this path -- only get a black ink tattoo. They are much easier to remove than a colored tattoo. The laser has to be tuned to the wavelength of the ink color, so if you have a tattoo that is black, red and green then you need to hit it with three separate lasers and the way one color responds may be different than other colors.

Also, set your expectations. By the time my treatments were complete (6 treatments, each 6 weeks apart), the tattoo was about 2/3 faded. then my body flushed the rest out over the following year. So I can't complain!

Got a tattoo in college. I really liked it for about 10 years, then I decided I was done with it and wanted to move on to another phase of my life. So I did laser removal, and I would say it's 99% gone. You'd have to be pretty close and know where to look to find any trace of it. In short, I rubbed a thousand dollars on it and it came right off!

i wonder how accurate you can be with shelling. can you target a particular building.

Why the hate on battleships? Why are they out of favor?

What dog piled? We had an interesting conversation. In my initial post I estimated the time it would take to make a gallon of gas (a unit of energy) from a square meter of bionic leaf, starting with an estimate of solar insolation (a unit of power density). Looks like an energy equation to me.

some people are disgusting yet they think they have the right to intermingle with everybody else. I knew a bus driver in SF who carried a can of lysol with her and if smelly people got on the bus she would spray lysol on them as they walked by.

first, diesel is maybe 10-15% more energy rich than gasoline.

what are you smoking? that's exactly what I said. The actual amount of energy was however many billion gallons per year, the space requried was however many square kilometers. isn't that exactly was I said?

this is a good point.

this is also a good point.

GP says that smoking is a social benefit because it kills people early instead of having old person deaths that are supposedly more expensive. I'm saying that smoking also eliminates decades of productive contributions to society, so even if old person deaths were more expensive (a fact of which citation is needed), it also eliminates productive contributions.

supreme court example is exxagerated, but it's true that scalia is 80 and RBG is 82, and they're considered to be the leaders of the conservative and liberal wings.

what about fukushima? thery'e building muon detectors just to find the uranium.

i dont like smoking cuz it reeks. people smell disgusting, worse than a homeless person who shat himself for a month. but these smokers still want to do things like eat in restaurants and go to jobs and other public places. there should be a smoker's island where everybody can be and smoke.

I don't like smoking because it reeks.

Also you have 20 extra years to be a productive member of society. The average age for Supreme Court judge is 96.