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That 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
by freehunter 7y ago
That 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.