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This (and the parent) both require a kind of paucity of vision or imagined capability -- endless subterranean hospital hallways and infinities of military bunke
by wcarss 6y ago
This (and the parent) both require a kind of paucity of vision or imagined capability -- endless subterranean hospital hallways and infinities of military bunkeresque quarters would indeed be abysmal, but there is no particular reason we could not instead build sweeping open spaces full of light and life and visions we've never dreamed, if we were so capable as to profitably settle a rogue world.
Sure, it could (and likely would!) be hard to make it not suck to live in a place like that. But if we're going to indulge in wild future space colonization fantasies, we certainly don't need to stop and get mired in the economic feasibilities of the potential lifestyles there to the point that they become depressing.
Imagine "Halo", not "HAL"!
- radu_floricica 6y agoYeap. Indoor space in a seismically dead world is very cheap. Energy is presumably also cheap. Paint the ceiling blue and you ciuld have real sized California. For a contemporary example, people pay a premium to go to the mall. Just scale it up - not even a lot, 10x or 100x, and you basically have paradise. Far from abysmal.
- darkerside 6y agoAnd then the population expands to fill that space. Then what? It's a lot harder to expand your hermetically sealed environment than it is to cut down a few trees.
- whatshisface 6y agoUhh... Digging more Mars holes is a lot better than cutting down trees.
- darkerside 6y agoSurely you don't think expanding a sealed base within a hostile environment is that easy?
- tomrod 6y agoNot easy, but plannable.
- radu_floricica 6y agoWe're already dependent on an industrial society. Without, for example, mass produced fertilizer we could not sustain current population. Same thing with digging holes.
- selimthegrim 6y agoThe Earth will be seismically dead at some point.