Thank you! I haven’t seen someone say this this obvious thing online since Bruce Sterling @bruces (npub180t…3agy) penned this 20 years ago.
“I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the
same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert.
The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times
as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times
cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever
writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well,
it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's
no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly,
it's inhospitable and there's no way to
make it pay. Mars is just the same, really.
We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.”
https://boingboing.net/2004/01/08/sterling-ill-believe.html
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2024-09-13 06:54:16
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