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My point is that generally given how little we've done in the past 50 years, it's a bit rich to claim the inevitability of indefinite...

There are also biology and human psychology to take into account.

It's a fundamentally different project to a) build a city on Earth; b) build a city on Mars; c) build a city on an exoplanet. They are...

Absolutely. The problem is that we have made so little progress since the Moon landings. In an alternate human history, we might have...

No one with any sense takes Musk seriously in this regard. Not only will no one finance his plans (because there is explicitly no ROI)...

YouTube was inspired by this thread and served up Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd:

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

With that line of reasoning, then why not just go for the entire human population if its that easy? Just build bigger. Or fit some...

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...

It's impossible to debate with anyone who has lost all touch with reality!

The basics are important. Things in mathematics are what they are defined to be. There is no single concept of "infinity" in...

I think you underestimate the difference in scale and technical feasibility between living on a single planet and finding and moving to...

That sounds like a personal theory to me...

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...