Re: It's become clear to me that "space colony" dreamers don't want to face the hard problems Earth-side

On 26 Jul, 01:31, Einar <eina...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aragorn

And, it also often neglect that fixing things over here may require
resources that are beyond Earth´s own supply capabilities.

I think that is absolutely right. Control of global warming will
ultimately require the control of sunlight from space. Suppose we
found that we could perform thermonuclear fusion, but that neutrons
were a bad idea and we needed lots of He3.

Would you need a manned lunar colony? Not necessarily. We would have
to send self repairing swarms to mine the Moon.

BTW - Earth is NOT suffering from overpopulation. Demographers say the
population will peak at just over 9 billion by 2050. In fact in the
West we are facing an ageing population.


- Ian Parker

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