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To anyone who has not seen Lower Decks, and either doesn't want to or can't:

Rumdar is a Pakled (the "It Makes Us Go", "capture Geordie and force him to make them strong" dumb guys)

When the captain of the USS Cerritos meets this Pakled (and others) they all call her Janeway (because she's a woman and in starfleet, therefore either she must be captain Janeway or all female captains are named Janeway)

They also refer to the Cerritos as "Enterprise", as well as the USS Titan, which they call "Another Enterprise", so either they think all ships are coincidentally named Enterprise , or all starfleet ships are called Enterprise.

What's the story, Wishbone?

I'd say inb4 someone who doesn't know anything about the incident or read the linked page makes a comment about scary nuclear power disaster, but I'm already too late...

Midwesterner here.... It's weird to me too.

HEY FUCK YOU GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

repeat 12,924 times per day

The lifepod just stores the bodies at subzero temperatures until a disposal truck comes to collect the bio waste. It all goes to the same place anyway...

Unless it's one of the new ones, those just blend the body in-house and supplement the incoming lines.

Optimistic to think it's fabricated with nanotech instead of just pureé'd people and green dye.

No point in wasting the good stuff on the poors.

That was my next thought, but then where do they get their power, water, and oxygen?

I suppose it could be like a "reserve the surface room for a day" kind of thing, and hundreds of people live down below, with enough space for greenhouses and algea pools for oxygen production. Geothermal power, or simply a solar farm out of view, and deep underground natural water reservoirs...

I still think the immortal people in an indestructible house is probably the best bet.

Well, we would choose a specific thing or group of things close together that we want to look at, and launch for that specific thing.

Once done with the primary mission, all the neat things we pick up on while getting the primary taken care of can be looked at.

That's what we already do with space things anyway. It just happens that most of the telescopes we've built to date were more general purpose. Hubble has/d a much broader scope than JWST, but you can't discount either for their value.

I'm probably not making my point very well, but basically we wouldn't just send it somewhere arbitrarily (which I'm sure you already know, but some might not think about that) and hope to find something cool, we will intentionally target something and then go from there.

We technically have the tech to do this, what we lack, is species cohesion and cooperation to lower the effective costs of said endeavor, and the patience to wait for it to set up. Being so far from the inner planets means it's gonna take a long time to get in position.

I like your optimism.

I don't share it, but I like it. The world could use more optimists.

Not that I'm trying to pick apart a darkly funny comic meant to hilight the bleak future we seem to be barreling towards.... But where do they get their nutrient paste?

I don't see a greenhouse so actual food is unlikely, and given the barren nature of their surroundings, either the dwelling is embedded into rock, or they don't go anywhere outside, hence the lack of a path or tracks. So no buying food.

Are they immortal? Cursed to live on a dead rock until the sun expands past the orbit of the earth? (I choose to believe this)

And here I thought my day was bad...