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Re:Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About by tomrod on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:56PM (#15039125)
> To leave your underwater habitat, you have to scuba dive or get into a submarine. You never get an unmediated experience of the outside world. Your skin touches the inside of your suit. You smell only the air from your breathing apparatus and your own breath. Forever.

This sounds close to the neck beard trope, of people living in their parents basement and never seeing sunlight. Could we inadvertently be adapting to a Martian or Lunar environment?

Re:Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About by logfromblammo on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:29PM (#15040024)
No. My adaptations are definitely intentional. All that sandbox-world gaming is training, for when I will be stuck inside a ~70 m^3 volume with several other people, simultaneously mining for vital resources and additional living volume using a remotely-operated robot that is not quite ready for fully autonomous operation yet.

It will totally be worth lifting 250kg of human adipose tissue into LEO, I swear. If the food supply fails, you'll need someone that can survive without it until the next available harvest. Not that I weigh that much now, but with some intensively sedentary neckbearding, I can probably get that high by the time we're ready to launch.

Re:Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About by colordrops on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:34AM (#15043828)
I'm not typically a fan of unanchored humor on HN as Reddit has more than enough to go around, but I commend you on turning "neckbeard" into a verb.
Re:Living on Mars: The Stuff You Never Thought About by tomrod on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:27PM (#15051069)
I love it! Thanks for the great laugh.