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- u/ClafoutisAux_Cerises: Thank you so much for the birthday card! I love Winnie the Pooh. Sadly, I've been hoping for decades to acquire some wisdom but it's probably getting time to give up :)
- u/puppylish1028: Thanks for the the hand-made card and the green & gold caligraphy, very pretty! I'm more into mountains and hiking than into small islands and surfing so the Cloud 9 surfing area on Siargao would probably not keep me entertained for very long, but I'd love to visit some of the bigger islands.
- u/Tinawebmom: Thanks for your pretty card, very kind of you! I'm trying to give up meat but chicken is the part that I find the hardest!
- u/Libertyprogrammer: Thanks for the birthday card and the cool stickers! I always like to have a good selection of stickers available for my own cards.
- u/AppleCritter723 x3: Thank you for the three space postcards (and a sticker from one of my favourite places)! This series of cards is very cool and you sent me some of the best from that set, thanks a lot!
- I'm not sure about extrasolar life in the universe - there just isn't enough data (N=1). We also don't have a good definition of what life is (I believe NASA's definition is "a process that exhibits Darwinian evolution" or so, but one could argue that some fairly abstract concepts, e.g. rumours, could fall into that definition). I suspect that there probably is lots of intelligent life in spacetime, but it's so far away from us (in time & space) that we'll probably never make contact. I mean, humanity has been equipped to potentially make contact for, maybe, the last 50 years out of the solar system's 5 billion years - that's 0.0000001% of the history of the solar system if I got that right. So even if every planet developed higher life forms (unlikely), to co-exist at the same time, you'd need something like 100 million planets, and that requires such a big bubble of space that no way we'd make contact. I don't think it's a coincidence that these 50 years is so bloody recent BTW - I suspect humanity will squander its one opportunity pretty quickly, sadly (climate change, nuclear war, ...).
- Europa is pretty cool! You probably know about the "planetary protection" office at NASA, I'm pretty sure a mission to Europa would be very well sterilized. A mission to explore Europa's under-ice ocean would be pretty cool, I've read of a mission concept of a probe that could float on the water and drive upside down on the ice (if the underside of the ice is smooth enough). Not sure how it'd communicate with Earth though - perhaps via a cable to a lander on the outside.
- Io may be fire and brimstone but as you probably know it's not the only hellhole in the solar system - e.g. the surface of Venus is hotter, and Mercury isn't that far behind I believe :-/ Also, did you know that Jupiter is near the maximum volume a body of its composition could be? If you kept adding hydrogen, soon enough it'd start to get smaller again because of its own gravity, until it'd ignite stellar fusion. I think it would be kind of cool to live in a binary star system, although it could also be that those don't have stable enough orbits for life to develop, I don't know.
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