The author of the original article, Charles Stross, wrote a lengthy piece on space colonization a while back, explaining why he believes it's implausible, which

The author of the original article, Charles Stross, wrote a lengthy piece on space colonization a while back, explaining why he believes it's implausible, which may be why he's not examining it in more detail here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...