• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wars are always about limited resources. Religion, politics, beliefs, philosophies, laws, traditions all boils down to getting a bigger share of the pie for your side. Ironically, space exploration might make wars obsolete for a while. There’s so much real estate on other planets that you can simply bugger off if you don’t like your neighbours.

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      1 year ago

      Only if colonising other planets is easy, which there is no reason to believe it will be.

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        1 year ago

        We just don’t have the technology to massively change a planets ecosystem to be habitable and the amount of resources to build a life dome is just absurd.

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          It’s nice to go outside sometimes but I don’t do it often. Worst bit would be some luxuries. Mostly food variety and ingredients.

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          We don’t need full on domes; pressurized buildings would be enough. But if we can populate other planets we can populate the unpopulated parts of Earth.

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          With the current resources we have I feel it would be prudent to stay underground rather than build mega structures on ground.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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      There’s no other habitable planet in our system (requiring heavy life support is not sustainable), and even the closest inhabitable exoplanet is probably out of reach for at least the next millennium.