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We can't even put a self-sufficient colony of people in Antarctica, where we don't have to worry about the lack of atmosphere or radiation shielding.
by roc 14y ago
We can't even put a self-sufficient colony of people in Antarctica, where we don't have to worry about the lack of atmosphere or radiation shielding.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoNo, we haven't attempted to put a self-sufficient colony of people in Antarctica. Which is not at all the same as "we can't".
- roc 14y agoRight. We attempted to put a self-sufficient colony in the American Southwest and still failed. Surely it's fair to extrapolate our inability to succeed there into an inability to succeed in a far more harsh and remote locale. Keep in mind that this isn't to say we could never succeed. Just that this is a very, very difficult problem that we don't even talk about seriously today, let alone study and pursue. Yet everyone just assumes it's somehow trivial and automatic once we decide to try.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoAssuming you're talking about Biosphere 2, do you know why it didn't succeed? What problem did it have that is unsolvable?
- bigtech 14y agoPauly Shore.
- ceejayoz 14y agoAntarctic colonies haven't needed to be self-sufficient, given the relative ease of resupply, so they haven't been.