Comment by pavel_lishin
4 hours ago
Would that toe-hold actually survive without constant resupply vessels?
There's cheaper ways to doom a dozen people to a slow, inevitable death.
4 hours ago
Would that toe-hold actually survive without constant resupply vessels?
There's cheaper ways to doom a dozen people to a slow, inevitable death.
not taking the chance is cowardly & nihilistic, & everyone who went up would know the score when they signed up. better to give it as much of a chance as possible than to give up & just watch the world degrade & rot around us.
>> not taking the chance is cowardly & nihilistic
It seems reasonable to argue that giving up on a planet where everyone but a handful of people will be for the long-term future is the cowardly path.
That's a fake binary. We could spend the money to prevent the world from degrading and rotting.
but that isn't what would or will happen. at best there will be a wind-down where spending goes toward mollifying an aging, uneducated population with food & shiny baubles as infrastructure decays, access to resources & power is reduced year after year, & in a gen or two there won't be anyone left who knows how to make the old systems run (& if they do they won't have the resources needed because the supply chain will be gone).
without an eye on advancing things for the future, & keeping the wheel spinning with activity & forward movement, with optimism that things can get better, all we're looking at is a controlled demolition of what has been built up.
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