downtown Berkeley is one of the best ice cream neighborhoods in America:
* melt me creamery
* almare
* scoop n chill (mostly for the biscoff flavor)
* caravaggio gelato lab
* lexie’s frozen custard
…plus a few others.
it isn't why i chose to live here, but it might be why i stay here forever
![For Mars, this analytic capability will have to move into the spacecraft. In essence, this means building a kind of Space Theranos, an automated black box that can perform biochemical assays in space without requiring repair or calibration. Such an instrument doesn’t exist anywhere, but a Mars mission requires two flavors of it—one that works in zero G, and another for Martian gravity.[12]
This black box belongs to a category of hardware that pops up a lot in Mars plans: technologies that would be multibillion dollar industries if they existed on Earth, but are assumed to be easy enough to invent when the time comes to put them on a Mars-bound spacecraft. [13]
Some Mars boosters even cite these technologies as examples of the benefits going to Mars will bring to humanity. But this gets things exactly backwards—problems that are hard on Earth don’t get easier by firing them into space, and the fact that nonexistent technologies are on the critical path to Mars is not an argument for going there.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gbnaepzuneaxuofkhsnjvs3f/bafkreidv4fc7gjhsmnye4mjc77vyxsr4erzxu7uhsvrdcdgjietv7bmhqq)
