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This island provided the basics for life and yet could not sustain it. It's sobering when we consider sending people to a planet that is entirely hostile to our
by partisan 11y ago
This island provided the basics for life and yet could not sustain it. It's sobering when we consider sending people to a planet that is entirely hostile to our existence.
- pavel_lishin 11y ago> This island provided the basics for life and yet could not sustain it. The very bare minimum of basics - hardly any water, and hardly any food. But it did sustain over a dozen people for over a dozen years, with basically scraps of the ship they came in!
- freshyill 11y agoThe basics for life, provided you are a nesting seagull.
- beat 11y agoThe floor of a deep sea trench provides the basics for life, too (and is covered with living things), but we would die instantly if left there. "Basics for life" and "basics for human life" are two very different things.
- jdhzzz 11y agoThat is a difference of degree not kind. Without modern technology (shelter, heat, clothing, potable water, easily obtainable food) I'd quickly perish where i sit as would most others of our species. Sending people to a planet that is entirely hostile to our existence is only a variant of sending people to Antarctica or undersea for months (years?) at a time.
- Retra 11y agoThey did not plan to live on that island. If they had, they would probably have done fine.