Interesting article on the pros and cons of colonization of space:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/w...=pocket-newtab
Interesting article on the pros and cons of colonization of space:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/w...=pocket-newtab
One big downside risk is that whoever controls the oxygen is dictator by default. "Oh, people don't like me in Section 47? I'll show them... and everybody else." *vents Sections 46, 47 and 48 to space*
Many such ideas have appeared in sci-fi stories down the years.
Interesting premise, but I have to disagree with it. YMMV.
The fact of transit times with STL space travel makes any kind of interstellar government virtually impossible.
I just won't be economical to carry resources that would make sense. Nor transport troops or bureaucrats to enforce directives.
LS transmissions can carry information, but not enforceable instructions.
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
more "getpocket" nonsense
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
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