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I so feel the same way. But the Mars colony is being proposed and discussed as if it ( the engineering ) is a done deal by the...

ISTm that so many of these arguments are so far ahead of themselves - the technological prerequisites for seriously contemplating this...

I guess you are right. Just a few days ago, almost 100,000 cricket fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). If you can...

The book also talks about moon bases, but in any case the biological and habitat problems are the same.

from 1976? For a more contemporary look at the difficulties would recommend...

That sounds like a personal theory to me...

If you must for some reason sweeten your coffee with sugar then either make simple syrup like bartenders do (much harder to dissolve...

Why do you put sugar in your coffee!

True. Living in a cave in Antarctica would be far safer and more comfortable than living on a generation ship.

A few months on the Mayflower, as bad as that was, hardly compares to generations in a dark void if society is rich enough to build all...

you really think the choices made by premodern tribal groups or European settlers compares to a modern technological society? They...

It seems to me a no-brainer in terms of resources that any ship would carry the blueprint for life and not generations of live human...

The last section sums it up, in my opinion: Unless all these steps are taken, humans cannot successfully travel to and inhabit other...

but is it ethical / permissible to volunteer generations of your unborn descendants?

Re the generation ship, SF author Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a good piece in Scientific American a few years back In addition to the...