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Why not colonize the ocean floor instead or as well? I'd be as excited as anyone if we were colonizing space. If humanity survives long enough and manages to a
by arghnoname 16y ago
Why not colonize the ocean floor instead or as well?
I'd be as excited as anyone if we were colonizing space. If humanity survives long enough and manages to avoid too many dark ages, it is an inevitability, but at the present time, doing so would be terribly expensive.
I'm not sure if you could honestly classify spending trillions of dollars on space colonization is the best way to allocate resources for a poverty reduction program.
In some distant future where such things _are_ financial feasible or necessary, I would imagine that economic opportunities would be traded to the earlier pioneers who would suffer under what would surely be difficult and dangerous circumstances.
- jacquesm 16y agoThe engineering challenges of colonizing the ocean floor are probably as great or greater than those of colonizing space. Weird but true. Some go so far as to call the ocean floor 'inner space'. http://isc.gso.uri.edu/ http://isc.gso.uri.edu/
- thaumaturgy 16y ago> I'm not sure if you could honestly classify spending trillions of dollars on space colonization is the best way to allocate resources for a poverty reduction program. Historically, this has always been the case though, and the initial up-front expense has always benefited the society willing to fund the exploration. (Or, almost always; I think I recall a case where one civilization went exploring, bumped into a another much more warlike civilization, and was all but wiped out. I don't recall which specific example I'm thinking of though, and there are probably a few anyway.)