https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead
"In
A City On Mars, biologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach
Weinersmith set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending
space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they
discovered that humans aren't going to be settling space for a very long time,
and so they wrote a book about that instead:
https://www.acityonmars.com/
The Weinersmiths make the (convincing) case that every aspect of space
settlement is vastly beyond our current or reasonably foreseeable technical
capability. What's more, every argument in favor of pursuing space settlement
is errant nonsense. And finally: all the energy we are putting into space
settlement actually holds back real space science, which offers numerous
benefits to our species and planet (and is just darned cool)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
