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Colonists in the new world dealt with worse just fine for hundreds of years. You make a new life and send letters. Unless this VR content is real time it's not
by avar 9y ago
Colonists in the new world dealt with worse just fine for hundreds of years. You make a new life and send letters.
Unless this VR content is real time it's not a roundtrip problem but a bandwidth problem. Even without a high bandwidth uplink a few tons of storage sent to Mars on a rocket with some regularity goes a long way. Maybe Martians will play GTA 10 a bit after the rest of us, no big deal.
- athenot 9y agoThat's because the "new world" was already livable by the people who, um, were native. Things that we take for granted on earth (and which allow a simple tribal existence): - air with enough oxygen - most radiation is shielded, allowing one to subsist with minimal clothing - vegetation that grows food - roaming animals that can also be food - water for basic necessities (hydration, hygiene). Picture setting up camp in Death Valley. That's luxury compared to Mars.
- avar 9y agoThe GP is postulating problems colonists will still have on Mars in the year 4000. Your comment is entirely irrelevant to that discussion. By that time Mars could have been fully terraformed, but the speed of light won't have changed, nor presumably will planetary orbits.
- Nomentatus 9y agoThe first sentence is false in very large part BTW - before the eventual introduction of earthworms to the New World, most common agriculture was impossible.