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What slum are you talking about that is worse than living in what amounts to a slightly larger ISS? Rio? Dharavi? Not the parent, but it made a good point, so

What slum are you talking about that is worse than living in what amounts to a slightly larger ISS? Rio? Dharavi? Not the parent, but it made a good point, so I'm curious about yours.

harimau777 6y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to characterize it as a slightly larger ISS. The root poster was suggesting a colony the size of a planet.
- darkerside 6y ago
  I must have missed that, and didn't see it on a second skim. Still, even if that's the case, I'm sure we'll fill it to a similar per capita density from a total living volume perspective.
moralestapia 6y ago
Check this [0]: "Around 9 million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases" "A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds" and also, by the end of the article: "2.5+ billion people in need of water" I don't care if its a "slum" or not, it could be happening in Switzerland and it wouldn't make a difference for me as I'm not discussing the "aesthetic" side of the argument. If people on a Mars colony have enough food and water (which they almost certainly will), they will be doing better than the ones referred to at in the article. 0: https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...
- darkerside 6y ago
  We've grown accustomed to a great deal of control over our way of life and level of risk in the developed world. I don't think that's necessarily the right place to anchor expectations for exoplanetary colonization. Consider early European settlements in what became the USA. Death, dearth, and disease were the facts of life. Easy to speculate since this is likely way past any of our lifetimes, but I anticipate it will be common for entire colonies to be wiped out by starvation or disaster. Space colonization will be much easier said than done.

What slum are you talking about that is worse than living in what amounts to a slightly larger ISS? Rio? Dharavi? Not the parent, but it made a good point, so I'm curious about yours.

harimau777 6y ago

I'm not sure it's fair to characterize it as a slightly larger ISS. The root poster was suggesting a colony the size of a planet.

darkerside 6y ago
I must have missed that, and didn't see it on a second skim. Still, even if that's the case, I'm sure we'll fill it to a similar per capita density from a total living volume perspective.

moralestapia 6y ago

Check this [0]: "Around 9 million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases" "A child dies from hunger every 10 seconds" and also, by the end of the article: "2.5+ billion people in need of water" I don't care if its a "slum" or not, it could be happening in Switzerland and it wouldn't make a difference for me as I'm not discussing the "aesthetic" side of the argument. If people on a Mars colony have enough food and water (which they almost certainly will), they will be doing better than the ones referred to at in the article. 0: https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty/hunger-and-obesity/how-many-people-die-from-hunger-each-year https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...

darkerside 6y ago
We've grown accustomed to a great deal of control over our way of life and level of risk in the developed world. I don't think that's necessarily the right place to anchor expectations for exoplanetary colonization. Consider early European settlements in what became the USA. Death, dearth, and disease were the facts of life. Easy to speculate since this is likely way past any of our lifetimes, but I anticipate it will be common for entire colonies to be wiped out by starvation or disaster. Space colonization will be much easier said than done.