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There are no more frontiers on Earth to discover/explore/develop. Everything here is controlled by a more-or-less recognized government over a nation-state. Bui

• krapp 7y ago
  >There are no more frontiers on Earth to discover/explore/develop. That's not true - we know far less about the oceans than we do about space. >The expanding frontiers of space represent a fantasy - where there would be contant expansion of human possibility/potential. That fantasy depends on the common science-fiction metaphor that space is just a bigger, wider ocean and that we just need to recreate the Age of Sail with space ships. But barring the discovery of a warp drive, "constant expansion" into space is simply not feasible (see the Fermi Paradox.) >Also a hedge against earth's collapse. Well, that's already underway, so...
  • ci5er 7y ago
    Well - I did say it's a fantasy. That said, re: Oceans -- I find it hard to believe that "pioneers" could build islands or sub-oceanic cities (Gungan-style), without a nation-state declaring their sovereignty over it. Maybe a floating flotilla of ships, like in Snow Crash? But, still, generally I think that nation-states have us just where they want us.