#space colonisation

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Mars Is a Hellhole

Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.

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We could return to the Moon within five years without a huge budget increase | Latest News | Science and Technology | NowScienceNews.co.uk

Going to the Moon within five years and on the cheap: yes, it is possible, according to two renowned aerospace specialists.In the 1960s, President Kennedy

We could return to the Moon within five years without a huge budget increase

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In his book The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps (1992), Marshall Savage argues that building floating cities above tropical oceans would be a good first step to learning how to build space colonies. These floating cities—or “arcologies” as they are sometimes called—would preferably have to be constructed near the equator, where the ocean is relatively calm.

“Accordingly, the design […] must harmonize with nature, minimizing material requirements, while maximizing volume, usable surface area, and dynamic stability.”

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I'm thinking morose thoughts about the practical prospects for space colonization (ahem: stripped of the colonialist rhetoric, manifest destiny bullshit, "the Earth's too fragile and vulnerable to keep all our eggs in one basket", and the other post-hoc attempts at justification) and trying to sort them out in case I ever feel inclined to go back to writing the sort of medium term SF epic that Kim Stanley Robinson nailed in his Mars trilogy in the 1980s.

And what I'm nibbling on is, to paraphrase Oliver Cromwell, the big question of what if all our models or paradigms for how to structure a colony effort are wrong?

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Anyway, a point I've already chewed over on this blog is that a spaceship is not like a sea-going vessel, can't be operated like a sea-going vessel, and the word "ship" in its name feeds into various cognitive biases that may be actively harmful to understanding what it is.

Which leads me to the similar term "space colony": the word colony drags in all sorts of historical baggage, and indeed invokes several models of how an off-Earth outpost might operate, all of which invoke very dangerous cognitive biases!

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Petrus Ad Astra

Fandom(s): Moyashimon Prompt: Space Colonisation - AUgust 2022 Challenge Series: N/A Length: Oneshot Idea: The Professor further develops his wild plans to terraform and colonise space with specially designed microorganisms.

Notes: Ngl, the motivation on this one is low. It just seems so tricky. I might do it, I might not.

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Could we actually live on Mars? - Mari Foroutan

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-we-actually-live-on-mars-mari-foroutan#watch There's a lot of talk these days about when and how we might ...

[riceball-diabolo-fraise]

how am i the only one scared that we'll never go colonize new planets 'cause of some people stupidity. like the nazi stuff lately, sexism everywhere, racism, stuff like that. i feel so much like we NEED to discover the whole universe. im so scared we'll never. welp. i just wanna die thinking abt it. whats the point of living if the only thing im passionate abt is hijacked all the time.