LDN 1622, Dark Angel

On this day in 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia landed on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base after completing its first orbital odyssey.

Looks like I’m giving this dead blog a new purpose - a thoughts board on protecting modern society and the advancement of eco-friendly technological domination*.

(*Not dominating the world, but the market.)

Lithium is running out on Earth. We’ve detected at most, 70 years’ worth of lithium in the crust. We have less than that much time to figure out how to mine ice asteroids containing lithium to bring back to Earth, as well as mining lithium from Mars.

Mars is a corpse of a planet and can never be revived, so it’s better to try to convert it into a mining planet - unless we figure out how to restore and repair a planet’s magnetic field and core. Mars’ core is not solid enough. It’s not worth it to even consider turning it into a New Eden for humanity. I will be spending time attempting to learn everything possibly required to even be qualified to give an opinion on astronomy, astrophysics/physics, chemistry, and environmental science. My best won’t be the best, but hey. I do what I can. If anybody knows something about trying to live without lithium and still have a society that lives with eco-pos technology to keep thriving and surviving on this miserable little ball of suffocation, please do share.

How will the audio feed from Perseverance make its way back to Earth?

During my book writing this NaNoWriMo, I came up with my own "humans are weird" concept!

You know, within a lot of stories, aliens are more advanced than us (technology). Have more senses than us (heat vision). Maybe have stronger senses than us (like hearing). But what if we have an advantage somewhere? Like maybe... We see more colors than they can?

In my book, one of my aliens cannot see the color red like the human can. I'd say she was "color blind", except this is just how all of her species see, so it's not a disability.

It's not as if she can't see red altogether, it just is a much duller color than what the human sees. Nearly brown. But it also happens to be the main color of her planet's environment.

This poses as a problem. See, her ship is red, and many of her outfits are red. These items are meant to blend in with the environment while moving across the planet.

A human visitor crashed on said planet, and our alien needs to go out to spy on then, see if they are friend or foe.

But the human, well, they sees her no matter where our alien protagonist moves. Incredibly well. Flying in over the mountains to come check on our human visitor? Human is already staring at the ship before it lands. Hiding behind a bush to observe the visitor? Human sees them immediately.

Once proper contact is made, our alien then asks about this. "Why were you always able to see me?" And the human seems confused.

"With all that bright red? I'd see you from a mile away!"

With proper research and observation, our alien comes to learn that the human sees basically a bright beacon against a dull background. But to our alien's eyes? It's all the same color.

Hello!! Its wonderful to be able to ask questions, thank you!

About Perseverance, does it have a self-repair option? And as Curiosity is still operational, will they run missions together? Or will they split up to cover more distance?

Is this a sign that we're close to being able to set foot on Mars?

My final question is how do you receive the messages from such a long distance?

Thanks for all your hard work! 加油/Good luck!

“Is this a sign that we are close to being able to set foot on Mars?”

Orion Molecular Cloud

NGC 253, Silver Coin