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Speaking of this: let’s talk about space settlement. If you’re going to stay, you are going to be having babies. Any tech tree proposal for a space settlement
by api 6mo ago
Speaking of this: let’s talk about space settlement.
If you’re going to stay, you are going to be having babies.
Any tech tree proposal for a space settlement (planet, moon, spin stations, whatever) that does not address how to make and reuse or recycle diapers is not serious.
I never see this mentioned in sci-fi or in space nerd discourse around stuff like what you need to settle Mars. It’s up there with potable water, at least if you want humans to reproduce.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago> If you’re going to stay, you are going to be having babies This is a hurdle for settlement. Not exploration. Toilets are a hurdle for exploration, as is trauma medicine. I’m not dismissing the need to do experiments with pregnant rats on the Moon. But until we’re dealing with multi-year missions on Mars, gestation isn’t on the Gantt chart. > I never see this mentioned in sci-fi The Expanse and A City on Mars speak to this precisely and extensively.