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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jun 23
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      Kevin Simler Retweeted Hugh Howey

      This is something I’ve believed for a long time: Humans aren’t going to colonize Mars. Or anywhere off Earth. Not for many decades. Why? MUCH too costly and dangerous. Who would raise kids there? Antarctica is orders of magnitude easier — yet ppl show no interest. More below:https://twitter.com/hughhowey/status/1134540120877649921 …

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      Hugh HoweyVerified account @hughhowey
      🚀 A THREAD ABOUT LIVING IN SPACE 🚀 We aren't going to do it. Not by the millions, and probably not even in the thousands.
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    2. Andre Infante‏ @AndreTI Jun 23
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      Anarctica can't be colonized due to international treaties. And yet, it's been permanently occupied by a large number of scientists for decades. Other similarly inhospitable places like northern Siberia have been inhabited for centuries. This is a profoundly goofy argument.

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      Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jun 23
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      OK, replace Antarctica with “the open ocean” or even “the bottom of the sea.” Why are we so keen to colonize space, but relatively uninterested in colonizing the hard-to-inhabit parts of our own planet?

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        2. Andre Infante‏ @AndreTI Jun 23
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          I mean, I think one of those sounds a lot more interesting than the other. We pretty much know what's up with the bottom of the ocean. Human eyes have never seen most of the solar system. If I'm giving up my whole life to move somewhere, it's not gonna be the mariana trench.

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        3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler Jun 23
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          What do you think we’ll learn from living on Mars that we can’t learn by sending probes? (Earnest question.)

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        1. Basil Marte‏ @BasilMarte Jun 24
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          Uncharitably, I'd guess "surface of Mars" viscerally feels more like "another continent" i.e. habitable with a few oddities, whereas oceans elicit the correct feeling of "no". OTOH kelp farming and other aquatic primary production (not residence) could feed ~infinite population.

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