Let's go to Antarctica or the depths of the SEA
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
I don't see how you can't make the logical connection between extreme-hostile environment colonization on Earth as a breeding ground for technical expertise and drive to begin the movement of humanity to space. It's an obvious jumping point.
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Replying to @GolfNorman @Logo_Daedalus
you can! but this implies that you would want to focus on the oceans etc *before* space
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Replying to @380kmh @Logo_Daedalus
We have already been doing resource extraction from the ocean for a century now and building rigs and floating cities. Population movement follows both resource exploration and overcrowding. I prefer space because brown people with guns and boats can't find you
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Replying to @GolfNorman @Logo_Daedalus
extreme-hostile environment resource extraction isn't exactly the same thing as extreme-hostile environment colonization, unless you were just planning on going to space to get stuff to bring back to Earth
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Replying to @380kmh @Logo_Daedalus
one naturally has to occur first before the other does and space itself as an environment is far less extreme than the antarctic or deep sea. Also the economic pipe is "go to space to get stuff to sell to earth to buy more rockets to get more stuff u need in space"
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Also there is a significant economic incentive to stop strip mining the whole earth to keep making iPhonespic.twitter.com/LqIpBGuR3D
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*ecological
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Replying to @GolfNorman @Logo_Daedalus
only when it becomes more economical to mine from asteroids than from earth--until then, the economic incentive is firmly on earth (and ecological incentives are toothless w/o economic aspects)
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Replying to @380kmh @Logo_Daedalus
Look, I can understand that some people don't really care if the earth becomes a global strip mine Ready Player One, BR2049 hellscape but frankly I would prefer if it didn't.
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Lolol I'm just pointing out that space won't prevent that outcome, not endorsing it
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