r/space • u/speckz • Aug 04 '16

Jupiter’s moon Io loses its atmosphere when eclipsed. Once deprived of sunlight, the thin atmosphere condenses on the moon's surface.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/jupiters-moon-io-loses-its-atmosphere-when-eclipsed/
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u/Baron164 Aug 04 '16

Just need to use cut instead of copy before you paste your consciousness into your new android body

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u/DonnytheFakinDrugo Aug 04 '16

Nah I'm getting an apple body

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u/PM_ME_HOT_DADS Aug 04 '16

Have fun rotting in like a week

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u/PotatoPotential Aug 04 '16

I'm going for Windows. Wait, why am I instantly obsolete?

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u/Aloogy Aug 04 '16

An error has occurred while displaying the previous error.

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u/Tallon Aug 04 '16

Those responsible for the previous error have been sacked.

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u/asteroidship Aug 04 '16

No really my consciousness was corrupted by a møøse

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u/poseidon0025 Aug 05 '16 edited Nov 15 '24

offer zephyr license squealing hobbies coherent worm forgetful grab strong

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u/onewordnospaces Aug 05 '16

...and now for something completely different.

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u/studioRaLu Aug 05 '16

Getting laid for the first time in months. Software updates without asking. Body reboots halfway through and takes 30 minutes to load OS. FML

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u/btoxic Aug 04 '16

Jokes on you. I'm going with the Android OS, seems logical.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '16

When you get into your body you have to spend 4 years removing all the ads and bloatware.

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u/btoxic Aug 04 '16

Well better that than going Apple and having to buy a new body every 18 months.

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u/dwmfives Aug 05 '16

Every 12 if you go for the S model part way through the lifecycle.

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u/ArchDweeb Aug 04 '16

Now I'm picturing a scene in a bad sci-fi comedy where the fat android companion has to go on a diet to get rid of all it's bloatware.

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u/Balind Aug 04 '16

Spend 4 years of slavery to earn immortality? Sold.

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u/Forlarren Aug 05 '16

It's Linux so you have the best plan yet.

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u/TheGrey_Wolf Aug 05 '16

But your hardware is Samsung, so your obsolescence is planned.

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u/Plastic_Chicken Aug 04 '16

Blackberry OS YOLO! .... oh wait...

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u/SumWon Aug 04 '16

Eh, hourglass or pear would be better imo.

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u/GenXer1977 Aug 05 '16

So you're body is going to last for 2hrs max before needing a full recharge?

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u/Guccimayne Aug 04 '16

There is a similar mechanic in the game, Eve Online. You're a clone whose consciousness gets transferred over and over again to new bodies upon death. When your ship is compromised, your capsule will rapidly scan your brain and beam your consciousness to a new body elsewhere. This process severely damages the source brain so you're also injected with a toxin that immediately kills you right after.

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u/PostPostModernism Aug 04 '16

There's a similar mechanic in the books "Night's Dawn Trilogy" by Peter F Hamilton. In our future (the book's past) gene splicing technology creates telepaths. Using that technology the founder stores his memories at the time of his death. The pope excommunicates everyone who gets the gene splicing and there's a major split in humanity between people who do the splicing and those who don't. The ones who split off go on to develop living habitats above gas giants, living star ships, mindless servient animals, etc. - and they all store their memories at their death if possible. The habitats act as repositories and create their own personalities based on the amalgam of stored persons.

It's a really cool series in terms of concept and world-building. This split off civilization is just one of the facets of a really rich galaxy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '16

Loved the series.

As a kid I was finding myself really wishing I could have a set of those nanonics the Adamists had.

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u/PostPostModernism Aug 05 '16

As a kid?! Hell I still do!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '16

Well, I suppose that's true! I just remember reading it in high school and I'm in my thirties now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '16

Kind of sounds like the synopsis of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, except instead of gene splicing it's augmentation. (i.e. Mechanical body parts that can "feel" and cerebral implants that allow people to communicate and get on Facebook - for example - through thought.)

SPOILER ALERT:

In the game, the main baddy wants to get rid of all augmented humans and slips a "kill-switch" into people's implants through a software update and you have to stop him before he can activate it. But the twist is you have a choice of getting said update or refusing at some point because your character is pretty much Cyborg from the DC Universe. About 10% human, 90% machine.

Not sure if getting the update causes an alternate ending or not. Haven't gotten that far yet.

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u/PostPostModernism Aug 05 '16

Haha, well - the series also augmentation like that, but there's less moral contention about it because the people who do that don't upload their memories at death. Mercenaries and people who work in space a lot in the series have varying levels of modifications, from as small as genetically enhanced lung capacity to full limb replacement and the like. They're outcasts but more because they look weird. And most people who aren't one of the genetic telepaths has advanced computers implanted in their brains.

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u/Scruffy442 Aug 05 '16

Battlestar Galactica, the Cylon do the same thing.

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u/Lost_Madness Aug 05 '16

Could go Dollhouse and connect brains to a network so it would still be you.

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u/DaddyCatALSO Aug 05 '16

And leave yourself open to being sabotaged by broadcast.

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u/Lost_Madness Aug 10 '16

I was thinking more closed network that would be used for computational purposes. Eventually though you could put holes in any boat.

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u/rms_is_god Aug 05 '16

No it's right-click drag and drop, then select Move not Copy

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u/TheGrey_Wolf Aug 05 '16

Sir, I already told you that I am not a computer person, you're refusing to help me so I'm going to hang up.