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Even if we distribute such library and manufacturing vaults and ensure they are staffed by those who can use them - the world that arises post-cataclysm may not
by datameta 5y ago
Even if we distribute such library and manufacturing vaults and ensure they are staffed by those who can use them - the world that arises post-cataclysm may not be one of great cooperation. I can foresee scenarios in which such valuables are used as tokens of power to subdue neighboring factions.
I believe we also need a colony to hold on to seeds of civilization in the very sense of the word.
- tsimionescu 5y agoAgain, why would the colonists on Mars, a much more resource-restrained environment than the post-cataclysm earth, be any more willing to cooperate or bring back or perpetuate civilization as we understand it today?
- datameta 5y agoSo of course it takes some time for the Mars colony to be at an appreciable enough size to be viable as an Earth backup. But once it is there, the colony would be have the incentive to start Earth back on the path to being support for Mars.
- tsimionescu 5y agoSorry, but again - so would everyone on Earth, to the same extent. And if some on Earth would be unwilling to share resources and information with each other, they would have even less reason to trust Mars.