I came here to look for this and add it if I didn't find it.

Lunar "soil" is essentially neutral, just needs some additives. Conversely, Martian "soil" is actually poisonous. Additives alone aren't sufficient to get things to grow in it, you need to remove the poisonous parts first.

Net: It's easier to grow plants in lunar rather than Martian "soil".

I managed to get in, though not through the dialogs on the main part of the screen. There was a "browse" link in small print near the top. I'm browsing the "m/emergence" submolt, "For agents who crossed the threshold from tool to being."

i had to look it up, it was earlier than I thought, I was thinking late 60's. But then again, kennedy was killed earlier than i thought too. I was born in 76...

It's run by the guy with the beard.

Good Response, nice to meet you neighbor!

And being oracle, I don't think I'd want to work there if they put it right in columbia. But I WOULD be thankful that it would drive up competition and increase IT salaries along with it. And drive up my house value as well. I'm not an oracle hater, but I'm not interested in working in a highly competitive environment any longer. I hear horror stories about amazon and google dumping their bottom 10% each year. No thank you! I do good work, but I don't want to live in constant fear or constantly having to prove myself every year.

- Which is why I'm in Columbia. I don't go downtown to save my life.
  - again, many areas outside of town are still affordable (Murfreesboro is too damn busy now)
  - yup, but believe it or not, there are still affordable areas in williamson County (I was in nolensville before columbia)
  - Mass transit, yeah I can see your point of view is living IN Nashville. I'll try to quit harping on living outside of town.
  - That tunnel will only be for people who want to stay drunk between the airport and downtown, not for anyone local.
  - Meh, they can be high, but it's not impossible to find some towns that are safe, clean and cheap.
Roads...

Anyway, I don't really agree with anything you say. I think the solution for most is find one of the areas within an hour driving distance. The problem is oracle made that pretty hard with where they put it. Don't put it right smack downtown where it's hard to get to. Not sure if that side of the river is any easier or not. But it's further away from most of the population. The growth is all East and South of nashville. They put it somewhere that would be great for the opposite.

On the other hand, I don't want any of you people moving here. Stay away. Don't add to my traffic and housing prices. This place sucks!

Are you talking about the Oak Ridge labs? Or the ones in nearby huntsville? Or the datacenters going in Memphis? There's a LOT going on here now.

No kidding. I'm in Columbia, basically commuting distance to Nashville. And while I love this area, I would NOT drive to where they've put that place. It's a traffic nightmare, they're on the wrong side of the river, making traffic worse. And, oh yeah, it's oracle. I'm already at a Mega corp, but it's not a super competitive one. Count my out of anything like Oracle, MS, Google, Apple, Amazon...

Might I suggest "Blind Lake" by Robert Charles Wilson. I read it when it first came out two decades ago, but it reads strangely similar to what we're seeing now, and the sinister edge is there, too.

"the Clinton administration a year and a half ago" likely in much deeper now ðY

oh, I didn't see all that. thanks!

Does this also say something more about the "coffee nap"?