My biggest issue with the "where is everyone?" argument is it requires the assumption that all aliens are more advanced then us and blasting signals across the galaxy.

For all we know there are multiple civilizations nearby but they haven't discovered electricity. There could be sapient things living under ice shell moons so we won't notice them even if we looked. Maybe the galaxy is quiet because most civilizations aren't blasting signals into space. Even we don't most of the time.

Just finished the season final of For all mankind season 5. Really good, I enjoyed this season a lot.

But wouldn't methane based life still be carbon based? Like, it can use liquid methane as a replacement for water, but using a different solvent while still using carbon as a biochemical base means it's still carbon based. So saying it's not carbon based it's methane based felt a bit strange to me

Watched Project Hail Mary finally. I liked it, it was good.

Although it does remind me of that book I wrote that's still in purgatory on my hard drive. I should just post it on my booksie honestly and get over the concern. Besides, the book I drew inspiration from originally was Robinson crusoe anyway lol.

Thinking about the Viking landers and how they where more analog and as such could be put in a oven to heat sterilize. It might be advantageous to make landers that are simpler and more analog, leaving the complex processing to an orbiting mothership, allowing for easily sterilized surface probes.

Complex electronics are more fragile, could also maybe use brass more in it's construction, it's naturally anti-microbial, I dunno just rolling ideas around.

Starliner has software problems and helium leaks, non of which result in loss of vehicle but do show problems in desperate need of fixing.

SpaceX fans: "This is the WORST thing EVER, it should be cancelled this is unacceptable!"

Starship explodes multiple times, sometimes just sitting on the stand.

SpaceX fans: "Space is hard, trust the process, all the problems will be fixed it just takes time and testing, I can't wait for that to carry people, this was a SUCCESS!"

A kind of jarring thing I encounter from time to time, is I'm pretty interested in seastedding. Underwater and floating settlements. But unfortunately the concept is primarily pushed by libertarians in the modern world as a way around laws they don't like.

I just like the idea of living on the seafloor, cultivating marine habitats and generating energy from ocean currents. Not owning people as property and abolishing the age of consent in international waters.

My little dungeon crawler roguelike game is getting close to it's first version. It's functionally like Risk of Rain with a procedural dungeon so nothing special there. But I put a lot of work in the visual style which i'm kind of proud of.

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