Sometimes I wonder what the percentage likelihood is that my kids will walk on another planet someday. I’m increasingly confident it’s not zero.
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The reason is to reopen the frontier. We have the internet for that now as a stopgap, and soon VR, and maybe the sea, but a new frontier where you can build whatever you want is very valuable.
I think you may be taking the concept of a frontier too literally.
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It may need to be literal, I think part of the reason people are excited about going to Mars is because it's a literal frontier. It doesn't matter that making a colony there is slightly less practical than making one in Antarctica, people need to see and feel the adventure.
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We’ve evolved specifically for earth. I don’t see the appeal in living in a much worse environment
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Do not underestimate humanity's need to do something just because we can.
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Disagree. A physical frontier without legacy regulations would allow for hyperloops, underground cities, or perhaps even the highrises banned in SF.
The frontier was a huge part of why folks came to the US. New digital, sea, space frontiers allow pioneering without conquest. -
"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_thesis#:~:text=The%20Frontier%20thesis%20or%20Turner,pioneers%20going%20through%20the%20process ….
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I think you should be taking it more imaginatively.
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