Rhaedas

Getting a computer, back when that was not a thing (early 80s). Changed so many things that wouldn’t have happened without it.

Narrator: The fire detector in fact did not work.

There’s more than one kind of backup in life, check them all.

I agree on a boundary, but it shouldn’t be marriage. It should be whenever it feels like the right time with that person. That’s the problem with the “saving yourself for marriage”, it’s a solid line, where a sexual relationship should be something you both gradually go into together. Every couple will have different needs, different timelines where this works. It isn’t based on a wedding day and a night to consummate the deal. I don’t find that romantic at all if the couple hasn’t been together before, it feels forced. And like others have mentioned, what if you get that far and something doesn’t click? A sexual relationship that doesn’t work out is awkward enough, but at least it doesn’t have lots of legal bindings to deal with too.

It helps reduce the problems mentioned if you lessen the target goal. We don’t need 1 G of force just like we don’t need a full 1 atm or pressure or 80% of nitrogen mix in the air to breathe. Less gravity force, less RPMs for the same diameter.

But scale is still the better option, making something a few kilometers wide and with only 0.7 G means less stress, less effects from the rotation, etc. That’s still in the category of megastructures though, so while not impossible to build, not going to happen at our current level.