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> But that seems like a huge investment for something that likely won't happen in our lifetimes The thing is a lot of the preparations would have multiple use
by ryanmercer 7y ago
> But that seems like a huge investment for something that likely won't happen in our lifetimes
The thing is a lot of the preparations would have multiple use scenarios. Bad hurricanes, bad earthquakes, bad eruptions, asteroid impact, nuclear exchange, conventional war relief, massive flooding, significant crop failure.
- perl4ever 7y agoLiving on earth, there's always a fallback option, right back to the stone age. On some other planet, at least in the solar system, there isn't going to be any lower tech option when something high tech fails. One widget that you can't produce locally fails and everybody is dead. So I can't see how a colony ever becomes self-sufficient, at least without some "magical" future technology that amounts to enhanced biology.