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So... I said cheap rockets are a good idea, and your best counter-argument is to say "No, cheap rockets are a good idea" ? > you have a small number of highly
by adekok 9y ago
So... I said cheap rockets are a good idea, and your best counter-argument is to say "No, cheap rockets are a good idea" ?
> you have a small number of highly educated, highly skilled people allowed to make a new society on a different planet. How much faster do you think they will be able to operate without the ineffiencies of the world today?
How much slower will they work when they don't have quick access to a modern industrial civilization?
> If a facist religious dictatorship ends up forbidding all technology and destroys the planet and us with it, I'd be glad that we at least have something else continuing the species.
I don't really have a rational counter-argument, because that isn't much of a rational position.
- headcanon 9y agoMy understanding of your position was that we don't need the whole Mars thing in order to accomplish more domestic goals (cheap rockets), and my position is that a Mars program will force us to develop much more advanced tech that will benefit us here than we would have otherwise. > How much slower will they work when they don't have quick access to a modern industrial civilization? Give it a couple centuries :) Civilization building is not a short term plan. And the fact that they won't have (easy) access to the rest of the species is part of what will force them to create innovative, home-grown solutions.