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@cre8factory My first point here has been about redistributing some of the narrative pixie dust that makes space colonization so emotionally compelling.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory Personally, my fascination with space could be happily satiated with visual data from probes visiting the rest of the solar system and telescopes scanning places further afield for the rest of my life.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory But yeah, the resource/personnel/carbon footprint allocation questions are real. And I wish we had some kind of planetary meeting about such priorities instead of venture capital allocating the resources.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory And that's in large part because the people who have risen to the top in VC/Tech land seem to have a deeply uncritical relationship with The Future™.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory It doesn't just inform their long-term goals. Hey, that's what visionary fiction is for. It seems, imho, to infect their estimations of plausibility.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory In order for space colonization to be a capital-funded endeavor it has to pan out is decades, not centuries. This economic constraint is driving a LOT of wishful thinking.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory Anything that takes 200 or more years requires a massive public / society-wide / religious / cultural commitment, not a business plan.On twitter.com
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@cre8factory It is an epic, ongoing experiment to see if we can do that for decarbonization, which would literally save millions of lives and avoid the zero-ing out of a sizeable fraction of global real estate.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory So if space colonization is your jam, I urge you to cross your fingers (or better, pitch in) and see if global energy decarbonization can orchestrated in terms of finance and governance.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory Secondly, creating a self-sustaining biosphere on some scale is a pre-requisite for the hypothetical infinite payoff of having somewhere else for humans to survive in case of massive planetary catastrophe.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory If that's your goal, you might seriously consider whether humans can help post-glacial Greenland, and then Antarctica flourish w/o becoming ecological catastrophes. If not, our chances on <.5g worlds where all lifeforms have to be flown in by rocket are nil.Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory Oh and one more thing, if the people who are inspired by space could develop "dual use technology" like low-rare earth solar panels, low-weight batteries, shelters that can survive hurricanes,Permalink On twitter.com
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@cre8factory and ways to help animal populations flourish after tiny population bottlenecks, that would be totes awesome.Permalink On twitter.com