Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: S Viemeister Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Quebec law to allow restaurants to charge for now shows. Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:04:37 +0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <0c4809227e9a05bc0b80932eb719b99d@www.novabbs.org> <495bb4ec21265111fdfd73ca4630e5d8@www.novabbs.org> <67dd7ad6$0$2788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <64b623ad118751c9ccf015b6a856f853@www.novabbs.org> <14439559227c04d252a38d93431ece4b@www.novabbs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7++xkHt3qjWJP1YCjKUUFAr7MHNT2PSBm+9ERVoXPXD4UkxRw= Cancel-Lock: sha1:mlNu5dHBMAbnr/9vI7umodLEwVI= sha256:l5FpDJONHrTkK4C5PBkaebQy81zz09Y/KpbtdUAeGqQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2931 On 3/23/2025 1:35 PM, Jill McQuown wrote: > On 3/22/2025 4:48 PM, S Viemeister wrote: >> On 3/22/2025 12:13 PM, Janet wrote: >>> In article , >>> songbird@anthive.com says... >>>> flood of sins wrote: >>>>> now, after reading that, why do you think the wealthiest of the >>>>> wealthy are building space travel machines and have a desire to >>>>> inhabit Mars? for the sake of humanity? or because they know >>>>> what's coming? >>>>    there's nothing there to sustain them.  even if they build >>>> a colony there it is highly unlikely they'll make it.  first >>>> we need a colony on the moon which can sustain itself, but >>>> really once you get out of a gravity well like the planet >>>> earth there is little sense in going down another and >>>> especially for a planet that isn't very compatible with life >>>> to begin with (no magnetosphere to protect from radiation, >>>> not much atmosphere, no easy water, temperatures very cold >>>> much of the time, etc...). >>>>    it's really a bunch of people who don't really know what >>>> they're doing. >>>        Moving to Mars (or the moon) with Elon Musk, Donald >>> Trump and their admirers, would be my idea of Hell. >>> >> Shipping the Mango Moron and his buddies off to Mars, and leaving the >> rest of us here, would be my idea of justice... >> > Remember the space shuttle, Challenger?  1986. Hmmm. > I was thinking of SpaceX.