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Point number 2 seems extra applicable on Mars - where the systems sustaining life will be even more fragile. Unless you believe that Mars will be populated in p
by adamsea 10y ago
Point number 2 seems extra applicable on Mars - where the systems sustaining life will be even more fragile. Unless you believe that Mars will be populated in perpetuity by a superior culture/class of people whose "everyman" would never, ever be a spectacularly bad apple (cue Heinlein/Moon is a Harsh Mistress/Belter/libertarian fantasy drooling). To be clear, I'm arguing that it's a fantasy.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoSure. And files sitting on a disk, any disk, are forever under threat from random failure. But would you have only one copy of that file, or two copies on separate disks? And would you argue that it's pointless to have two copies, since simultaneous failures could still happen theoretically? If you do, I invite you to delete all your backups right now. Same with people and planets.