Rhaedas

It's a big part of the plot and motivation of the main characters in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars). Basically, should we leave Mars (or any planet) as it is naturally, especially if we find life already there even at only microscopic levels? Or should we spread our own version of life from Earth (us along with other creatures and plants) and terraform where we can to maximize our own survival?

And unmonitored? Don't trust anything from Google anymore.

What makes this better than Ollama?

Anyone who lived during the time where cigarette smoking was prominent and it was common to see butts all over the place has to be amazed how vapes created far worse of a problem, not only with the waste, but the danger with the lithium batteries. And wasn't vapes supposed to be solely for weaning people off nicotine originally, but then MONEY, hey we can get people addicted to these! Where were the regulations to prevent such a mess? And I hope current vape users aren't offended, but it's still a nasty habit, and I've gotten vapor clouds blown my direction even worse than I used to get cigarette smoke. It's almost like they want to share it with you to show they're cool.

That's even more why it feels like someone new in the company stepping in and questioning why there isn't something in play officially if there's interest in freeware/open source. Someone who talked to the lawyers first to make sure no right were signed away yet. That may be very pessimistic and conspiratorial, but if there isn't any reason to stop someone else's work on something, why would they send one? I don't know a lot about copyrights and trademarks, but I do think there is a point where if you aren't using an asset and others are interested, you shouldn't be able to just hold it under lock and key and do nothing with it. I think patents are like that, you have like 20 years or something protected to do something, and then it's open(?) Again, I'm not sure.

Cool, sounds great that they're adding depth and realism to the crowds. So this must mean those features could also trickle down to other games of Frontier's that need ~~more~~ tons more variety of background activity. You know, like Elite Dangerous? Wait...where are you going? No? Come on, you have the tech to do it...

Any reason given? Not that they have to give one, it's still their property to do what they want with it. I would keep an eye on them and if they somehow in the future come out with something very similar, I hope there are good records of the past years of work and discussion. Since it was going to be free and not for profit, not really a case for lost income, but there must be some laws to protect people working in good faith with a trademark knowingly who get their ideas stolen FOR profit. If that happens.

Time travel sucks. No accurate time travel story ends happily, even if the resolution overall is good. Looper is a great example of a good one. I think Primer too, but I still have trouble with it, even with all the aids and charts. Oh, and 12 Monkeys, an easier one to follow.

There would have been mention of some of the paragliders shot.

That seems to suggest that the American style is a preservation of the older English format, much like we kept spelling of some words like the original English at colonization while the UK gradually changed with other influences around them.

"If there’s anything I can’t stand, it’s a smart owl."

It would be. Dust (Mars and the Moon) is a huge problem that we might struggle with for a long time. Any form of terraforming, well...we're very good at accidentally doing that, but a purposeful change towards a goal of making it nearer to Earth-like, that's a complex thing. And there is the Red/Green Mars argument to have if we ever did.

What would be even easier is to just bring materials to a spot and build lots of huge habitats. We've had blueprints that are still reasonably valid since the 70s and even before, it's just getting the small percentage of materials we can't find out there already into space that's difficult. The plus over a natural body is that you don't retrap yourself in a new gravity well to fight, and you can locate anywhere with whatever environment you can maintain. The plus over the captured asteroid is you know what you have from the beginning since you're build it, and you don't have to use a lot of effort to capture it, derotate it, mine it without ruining its ability to hold atmosphere.

My opinion is that we still could do this type of thing technically, but the window has shut on the will to try. We can't even stop damaging this planet.

It was war, conflict and invasion that turned people to Yahweh to be the major god, since he was the god of war. Before then he was a minor figure. The odd part is why previous references weren't eventually changed or edited out to reflect this turn to monotheism.