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NotAPreppie t1_iv16ymm wrote

Reply to comment by TerenceMulvaney in Researchers Make Rocket Fuel Using Actual Regolith From the Moon by The_Weekend_Baker

I think the implied hope is that they'll find enough CO2 on the moon to use as feed stock to produce O2 and CH4. Just electrolyze some lunar water for the H2 and you'll have entirely in-situ rocket fuel synthesis with a side-helping of excess O2 for the ugly bags of mostly water to breathe.

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WaldenFont t1_iv19ek8 wrote

That line never sat right with me. An entity so alien that it refers to us by our molecular makeup has opinions on beauty?

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daneelthesane t1_iv1kcsg wrote

A crystaline mineral species would see us as disordered, which could be considered ugly. I have no issue with any intelligence having aesthetic values.

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NotAPreppie t1_iv19qim wrote

I'm happy to retcon that as a limitation of the Universal Translator system used on the Enterprise-D.

Or maybe it was just they think that baryonic matter in general is ugly.

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Scholesie09 t1_iv5ir11 wrote

If you saw a rock monster with an unpleasant face you could call it an ugly rock monster and it wouldn't be illogical.

It refers to humans as water based presumably because it's different to what they are, not because they are so advanced beyond the need for visuals.

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