2796: Real Estate Analysis
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 Title text: Mars does get a good score on 'noise levels' and 'scenic views,' but the school district ranking isn't great; the only teacher--the Perseverance rover--is too busy with rock samples to teach more than the occasional weekend class. |
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This comic shows a chart ranking locations around our solar system, along two scales: Their walkability & their proximity to shops.
Earth is rated as more walkable than other locations within our solar system, probably because humans can walk on much of its surface without immediate & continuous existential need for environmental survival gear (so far) and because its surface hosts all commercial establishments known to humans.
The alt text comments that Mars did score high on the 'noise levels' and 'scenic views' scores: Having a thinner atmosphere and having (close to) zero sources of manmade noise, Mars is certainly silent, a quality that is desirable when searching for a home as lower noise levels help maintain a calm and relaxed lifestyle, and its large, barren scenery has been abundantly documented by the several rovers sent to its surface. However, it then states the 'school district' ranking (proximity to quality educational structures, which is also desirable especially by families) is rather poor on account of there being only one available teacher - the rover Perseverance - and it being too busy with its rock samples. Perseverance is (at the time of this comic's publication) a still-active rover whose main purpose is to examine minerals from Mars' surface and scan them for signs compatible with ancient life: while it could hypotetically serve as a teacher (using its memory banks as teaching material, for instance), doing so would greatly interfere with its main mission if done regularly.
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I suspect the hover text is reference to the song ‘Rocket Man’ and the lyric ‘Mars ‘ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids’ but I’m not sure it’s strong enough to include. Thoughts? 172.71.242.11 16:10, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- I don't know if that would be my first interpretation, but it's not necessarily wrong. Feel free to add it! (This wiki is supposed to include multiple interpretations if they exist.) DownGoer (talk) 17:32, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- It seems like a bit of a stretch to me. BunsenH (talk) 23:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
He omitted Pluto, but included the Moon, which isn't any kind of planet. Furthermore, the Moon should get a much higher score on proximity to shops than all the other planets (it's only 250K miles away, versus hundreds of millions of miles). Barmar (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Massive disrespect to Pluto :( 172.70.210.110 18:37, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- The Moon is okay but there's no atmosphere. 162.158.158.50 21:18, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- For atmosphere, you really want to look into Venus and the gas giants (cool name for a band?). Pluto, on the other hand, has a lot of heart. 172.69.247.42 12:24, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
- He also omitted Sol. More people have worshipped it than Earth, so it's even more glaring than Pluto. 172.71.147.36 23:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Isn't "proximity to shops and restaurants" a significant contributor to most "walkability score[s]"? It seems weird that the x and y axes are confounded in such an obvious way, is there a deeper message? JohnHawkinson (talk) 21:16, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- If I live across the street from a store, but that street’s a busy highway, I’d say I lived near a store, but I wouldn’t necessarily want to walk there. Intara (talk) 05:42, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
- Sure. It's not the only contributor. Just a significant one. JohnHawkinson (talk) 00:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
- That reminds me of my vacation in Egypt with the hotel being "in front on a fastfood". Sure the McDonalds was right in front, but there was a double-three-lines highway, making the line-of-sight proximity totally irrelevant. 162.158.233.11 07:35, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
- There are several algorithms for converting a basis for an inner product space to an ortho-normal basis for the space.162.158.159.102 16:24, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
The moon and Mercury should also be pretty good in the "low noise" and "scenic" scales. Depending on whether one wants to count radio noise, and the effects of the magnetic tornadoes on Mercury. BunsenH (talk) 23:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
You really can't walk on most of the surface. More than 70% is water.
I'm not convinced that the total silence of Mars would be desirable. Humans have evolved in an environment where some level of noise is expected - complete silence might well quickly lead to some significantly deleterious mental effects. (Of course, the complete isolation from other humans wouldn't help either.)172.70.91.200 09:25, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
