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An off-world colony as a back-up for civilization on Earth going off the rails is an incoherent idea.
Drawn from what Philip Ball said
What Philip Ball actually said
- Philip Ball British science writer and former editor at Nature
specifically about the popular idea that an off-world colony would be a back-up for civilization on Earth going off the rails. The threats we currently face can’t credibly be extrapolated to the point where a human settlement on Mars (say) might plausibly be entirely self-sufficient. And in any event, the argument seems incoherent.
Where this was said
↗Should we colonise space? How not to debate that question.philipball.blogspot.com
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