Let's talk about space exploration and the possibility of humans colonizing other planets. What do you think would be the most significant challenge for humans to overcome in order to establish a sustainable colony on another planet, such as Mars?
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I went to summer school 3 outta the 4 years in high school, Iβm not qualified to answer this question lol
Summer school 3 years in a row? You're overqualified for Mars
π you know honestly I often wonder why leave & why not just fix whatever is wrong with this one
kinda feels like itβd be a cop out for us
unless thereβs extreme irreversible damage I donβt think we should even consider it (idk if weβre here yet tho)
There's the argument that pushing the boundaries to other planet's will give us the technology to save Earth. I just think it will be too late by that time π
Maybe if we succeed, the concept of a planet, humanity, and life, will be very different to what we experience today.
I will stay on earth, but whoever wants communism should be shipped to mars.
hi! I was trained in anthropology and am a longtime sci-fi fan. this colony / off-world stuff is one of my fav background thinking-puzzles, when I have spare think-time! I adore Neal Stephenson's Anathem!
I think we want to use care about choosing / fine-tuning which culture elements we export in our off-planet colonies. and the whole concept of "use care" to choose these details is so messy right off the bat that I'm not sure we'll manage even this basic challenge. can we even agree on core basics like shared ethical values?
how do we figure out what to give our colonists as the best possible "social life templates" for building a resource-poor, constantly hostile enviro-challenged first phase colony? I want to create pre-enactment colonies (like the historic re-enact ones) to run real experiments for how we imagine their future might be. running lots of long-cycle sims of colonies' economies, governance models and other details would be a worthwhile effort too, imo.
as for the most significant problem, I'm going with figuring out closed-loop, pressure vessel life cycle solutions. once we get that solved, I want to ask if a "deadly" planet (like Mars) is the optimal destination, or should we be thinking of how to master generation ships instead? they're both still "pressure vessel living" situations. which one (if either one) is the better vector for our long term species survival goals?
Not getting irradiated because of the lack of atmosphere and dying of cancer.
I donβt wanna leave , Iβm trying to stack SATS and change this world not the nextπ
Who gets to own the franchise rights Mars Bars? Dilemma right there. Possibly "Solar System War I" right there
Lack of nature, beauty and suicide