it's impossible to judge "not completely unrealistic" for some of the values.

Just kidding. I'm fooling around with a refined version of the Drake equation on an Excel sheet since years, re-calculating whenever I pick up some relevant new finding/estimate. My results usually are somewhere between 10 and 100 civilizations for the Milky Way. Wish they'd finally call.

I just established with this tool that, contrary to popular belief, we do not exist.

"If an operator kills a civilian or fellow soldier by mistake, they will have to answer for their mistake and likely face a military tribunal depending on the circumstances."

Lighten up, just fooling around.

Pff, iron cables. What we'll do is, we'll accelerate Mars as well as Venus and let them collide so that they merge and stabilize at an orbit of exactly 1 AU, with exactly Earth's rotation and velocity. Voila, "Manus", a planet of o.922 times Earth's mass (maybe a bit less, since in the process we got rid of most of…

You have heavy losses when you load and use batteries too. Also, I guess a pressure tank is much cheaper than a high-capacity battery.

Too lazy to google it, but doesn't Earth's magnetosphere deflect most part of the solar wind, preventing, among other things, the atmosphere getting blown away? Or so I seem to remember.

Super complex mission, kilometers of ice. Here's an interesting related link:

The article states that you can fill that thing up for 125 miles on 1 € worth of electricity. Sounds pretty efficient to me.

The pressure in these tanks will be much higher than what air compressors at gas stations could handle.

125 miles is not exactly "bike distance" in my book.

It goes 125 miles on 1 €, so of course its ecological footprint is much smaller.

True. Shame on me.

No clue whatI was thinking, you are, of course, correct.

You are correct, of course.

You are right, I am wrong.

What do you mean, "shit ton of eggs and not one of them are alike"? Of course they are alike, they are identical actually.

That's exactly what the offspring basically would be, a clone.

Haha, exactly. Would actually make a nice plot for an action movie, the disenfranchised occupants of a huge slum-complex trying to conquer the rooftop-villa of the corrupt and heavily guarded billionaire.