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Hint: It's not the asteroids we should be worried about. Consider being the last enclave on Earth with clean water, reliable power, and happy people. How long
by angersock 13y ago
Hint: It's not the asteroids we should be worried about.
Consider being the last enclave on Earth with clean water, reliable power, and happy people.
How long until the unwashed masses claw your bunker open with their bare hands for a chance at bettering their lot?
That's the reason we need to have colonies off-planet; in case the situation on Earth gets beyond saving.
- philwelch 13y agoWhy don't we just build a Stanford torus and use robots and guns to keep the Earth people out? I've seen this movie...
- mixmastamyk 13y agoI don't know, a bunker under a mountain doesn't get clawed open with bare hands. That said, sure a vacation home on Mars would be great. Just that it's not very viable ... the preparation would have to be immense. It would, however, prolong the species a while later than living on Earth, as the Sun turns into a red giant. Perhaps in a few centuries.