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Colonising other planets is a lousy idea; at the very best you could at massive expense colonise Mars, but it would be (a) almost certainly worse than Earth and
by larnmar 7y ago
Colonising other planets is a lousy idea; at the very best you could at massive expense colonise Mars, but it would be (a) almost certainly worse than Earth and (b) only s doubling of our resources.
Orbital habitats, formed by disassembling the moon, on the other hand, can give us vastly more habitable area than available on Earth, and the environment can be engineered to be better than Earth ever was.
Recently I’ve become convo bed that other planets don’t have much of a role to play in our future except as a source of raw materials.
- freehunter 7y agoThat exact argument could be made against disaster recovery data centers. Why bother building a new data center and buying two servers when you could just have one and save tons of money?
- tprice7 7y agoThe argument isn't that we shouldn't colonize other planets because it's expensive, it's that we shouldn't colonize other planets because it's Pareto inferior to making orbital habitats.
- microtherion 7y agoThere's no place in the solar system that's remotely as habitable as Earth, even if the latter suffers a massive disaster. Space exploration is more like Amazon spending $100B to build a hut with 10 Arduinos on the summit of Mt. Everest.