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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

4th panel is definitely mexico, i can recognise it with that sepia filter.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Breezewood, PA, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I am clearly not hip to popular culture.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Joke aside, it’s definitely Breezewood.

I’ve been passing through that location for the last 30+ years, and there are unmistakable signs in this picture. It’s a very old one though, as most of these businesses are no longer there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like Provo Utah to me, Roadhouse roadhouse out of frame on the left

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not current Mexico, pa after its conquered by mexico in 2073.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm currently reading A City on Mars, by that web cartoonist guy and his wife. So far they are strongly arguing that stages 1, 2, and 3 are not actually feasible and that we should wait until technology is there and jump straight to 4. Basically the only reason the ISS works is because it's next to earth, you need way more support around the crew (i.e. way more people) if you can only launch a rocket there in a launch window every two years, it takes 6 months to get there, and it's too far away to do live comms.

It's been quite good if you're into that stuff. It has a chapter on space sex, and I just read a section on how the NASA tampon thing wasn't really about how NASA engineers don't understand women, but then gives an example that shows they definitely don't but it's not because of the tampon thing.

They also specifically address the single rocket landing then add more rockets to make a city thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I want to subscribe to NASA not understanding women facts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Really good book.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Oh the irony of adding a watermark to that pic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

luckily this is not going to happen as america is not interested in colonization without at least some genocide.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

3rd stage needs a tiny Dollar General.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

*Quick Stop Groceries, with two drug dealers standing out front.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd hope if we had an opportunity to start fresh we'd chill with the roads and put more public transport and walkable city design in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol. I live in a city where they deliberately tore all that put and replaced it with highways.

They would not allow any public transit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not that Elon would ever be brave enough to actually get on a rocket to Mars, but if he did, he'd control the air supply like in Total Recall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That picture looks familiar

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Good eye! It is a famous photo that has been used for critiquing America or capitalism.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/breezewood-pennsylvania

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

McDonald's would be getting their logo there by panel 2.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

By that time it'll probably be even worse in ways we can't imagine yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ohh, so that's why Mark Watney was growing all those potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Toxic perchlorates from Martian regolith add a certain Je ne sais quois to the smell of Asphalt, Tire particulates, and ozone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do you like camping in a submarine in a volcano of dust and radiation? Let's Go to the Colonies!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The logic is sound 🖖🏽

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, gas is cheaper on Mars than in California rn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If I travel to Mars to save money on fuel, am I really saving money? 🤔 Might as well relocate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh...

Oh, no....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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