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Oh what a beautifully written rant
"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few. That's the world as Elon Musk and his cohort want it; Mars colonization is just a pretext."
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
@sundogplanets We need an Apple II / Oregon Trail type game were you try and go settle on Mars. Dying of Dysentery is replaced with Dying of Cosmic Radiation.
@llamasoft_ox@toot.wales@BillyGlennHoya @sundogplanets with SPACE OXEN
@llamasoft_ox @BillyGlennHoya There have been suggestions of sending goats along as part of a spacecraft ecology.
@sundogplanets would be well prepared.
(But nobody has yet actually done a closed-cycled life support system like that.)
@michael_w_busch @llamasoft_ox @BillyGlennHoya @sundogplanets The Biosphere 2 people did and it turns out that making a sustainable closed-cycle life support system is really hard.
@MisuseCase @llamasoft_ox @BillyGlennHoya @sundogplanets Biosphere 2 had many problems that do not make it a good model here.
Problems like "Steve Bannon threatening the people doing the experiment".
@michael_w_busch @MisuseCase @llamasoft_ox @BillyGlennHoya @sundogplanets What? Steve Bannon was part of Biosphere 2? (Searches) Yep.