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The Americas were only several months of travel from Europe though, much more desirable and nowhere near as hostile. > The Expanse Science fiction and especia
by orbital-decay 8y ago
The Americas were only several months of travel from Europe though, much more desirable and nowhere near as hostile.
> The Expanse
Science fiction and especially science fantasy tend to be pretty inaccurate when it comes to predicting anything.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe Americas were only several months of travel from Europe though, much more desirable and nowhere near as hostile. Scales for all of those things will be far different in space. Venus, Mars, Ceres, and Titan are quite cozy by those standards. Travel to Mars in 3 months may become routine in our lifetimes. Science fiction and especially science fantasy tend to be pretty inaccurate when it comes to predicting anything. Yes. You wouldn't spin Ceres for "gravity" and Epstein drives are just as fantastical as Warp drives if you start to account for waste heat.