Not only was the anime awesome, so is the opening song for it. I really like the homages they pay to the space pioneers and humanity’s early attempts at building rockets.

Some thoughts on this:

My speculation is that the Konami top brass once again insisted that he create yet another MGS game. He then probably told them he wanted to work on other stuff, and they basically said “MGS or no job for you!”

Until whatever comes after us starts doing the same exact things we’re doing now.

So does the road shut down in winter then? Or do they plan to have a fleet of snow trucks to keep the roads clear? What about hotels and gas stations? People driving on that road are going to get tired at some point and will need to rest, or you'll see a lot of stories of cars vanishing off the road, or people getting…

Actually, them moving their military on that super highway would make them very easy to bomb.

So how about building a pipeline from Washington State to California? Don't they get a ton of rain there?

Or what about making a national canal system that can store a lot of water, and release it to areas that need it? All that flooding in the Northeast US because of the melting snow would probably be really welcome…

Can't wait to see what this will eventually mean for electric vehicles. Hope they send Tesla a sample so they can look it over and put it into their cars.

Thanks for sharing this. Very nice read, and it should help to explain why we get some anime over and over, such as harem and magical girl series, while others don't get more than one season.

I mentioned some specifics in my post, but I'll post some parts of it. Due to Mars only being a third of the size of Earth, you'd need to add mass to it via lots of asteroid/comet impacts. But you'll need several thousand of them, preferably the size of Ceres, to make this work.

A Type 2 civilization can probably just…

Wouldn't we have to increase the mass in addition to trying to see if Mars can get its outer core restarted? Assuming it's a similar composition to Earth's, and that said core hasn't solidified and can't act as a barrier to protect against some of the solar radiation hitting it.

Okay, we should drop nukes on Iran because of these things, and not the nuclear bomb they're developing. It's the only way to be sure.

I wonder if they've looked at the telomeres on cancer cells, and figure out why those things are essentially immortal if provided with nutrients. I'm thinking of the HeLa cells, which were cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks a few months before she died.

Another interesting bit of time trivia. More time separates the T-Rex from the stegosaurus (83 million years) than from humans (65 million years).

Man, this article reminds me of Suisei no Gargantia, or Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. Highly recommend watching it up till episode 9 at least. Or just watch that clip on youtube.

There are discussions of this topic on it actually. But they mostly agree that building it would be a massive waste of resources, as you'd need more material than the entire solar system contains to completely enclose the Sun. That includes stripmining the planets, including the gas giants, along with the asteroids…

I have to agree with this. In this day and age of easy info access via the internet, it's too easy to get spoilers on a film/game/book/tv show, and thus have some of that excitement robbed from you.

Hydrogen fuel cells sound nice on paper, but in practice isn't as practical, clean or cheap as it seems.

The new season of Dog Days is unfortunately not available on crunchyroll in the US. They have the first two seasons though.

Stuff likely changed, but like others posted, probably not such a short time scale. If we took another picture of this, say 6 billion years from now, then maybe something different will have occurred.