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Maybe there's an error in the authors assumption that we'd seriously try to evacuate the planet. I've always assumed that the point of colonizing Mars is just t
by dcd0101 9y ago
Maybe there's an error in the authors assumption that we'd seriously try to evacuate the planet. I've always assumed that the point of colonizing Mars is just to have an off-world colony that's also like an ark. At least at first.
- gradientdescent 9y agoExpanding life to new places is the purpose of life Telling others to not to is deception Always annoying when someone spins a narrative around something wrong (like "we do it because we are having to leave earth") Once life went from the oceans to land. Now we go to Mars, that's it
- putsteadywere 9y agoAgreed. I read a lot of science fiction and I can't even think of a novel for adults where they would insinuate that something so stupid was possible.
- kseistrup 9y agoIn Neal Stephenson's ‘Seveneves’ they actually do evacuate Earth and live in space for thousands of years until Earth becomes habitable again ⌘ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves