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Rather than having one planet we should have a portfolio.
by golemotron 5y ago
Rather than having one planet we should have a portfolio.
- dane-pgp 5y agoI know what you're saying, but part of the reason we're in this mess is that too many people care more about their portfolio than the planet.
- ExtraE 5y agoI assume they meant a portfolio of planets?
- dundarious 5y agoAnd I assume it was a welcome play on words.
- nosianu 5y ago(I'm interpreting your comment as "portfolio of planets") But the corporations would want to spread to all of them. Just like big cities all over the globe look the same, you can buy the same stuff. Trade is good, and I love corporations (never understood why anyone on the left would be against the concept - it's ideally suited to create a "container" for cooperating individuals), but even on our own main planet we can see that we have strong forces of equalization and winner takes all. You would have to somewhat isolate the places if you want diversity. Same thing that helps with biological diversity. Otherwise it will all just be near-copies of sameness. In that sense, it would just be like distributed storage of the same content. It helps when one place gets wiped out by accident, but it does not provide true robustness against the "unknown unknowns" (to quote Rumsfeld) that the universe occasionally throws at us.
- golemotron 5y ago> You would have to somewhat isolate the places if you want diversity Space is very good at that. Easy to end up in places that are not practical to reach. Over time things change.
- arglebarglegar 5y agowe’re probably about a thousand years out from having anything close to earth, we’re squandering a ridiculously good thing here and more planets isn’t the solution