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In reply to the discussion: Global warming of +10C is ====>!!NOT!!<==== a reasonable expectation (erratum et apologia) [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)11. Now that's an interesting observation.
Off-planet colonization has been a techno-optimist shibboleth since the early days of space exploration. I we want to live under domes in an inhospitable, resource-poor environment, why not use the one we'll already have at hand? Perhaps the answer is that the idea is less romantic - it feels like desperate survivalism instead of diaspora, an admission of defeat rather than a promise to the future.
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Global warming of +10C is ====>!!NOT!!<==== a reasonable expectation (erratum et apologia) [View all]
GliderGuider
Nov 2012
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Nope. I've made the choice to stay in my community and go through whatever they do.
GliderGuider
Nov 2012
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