Philosophy behind space settlements

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Philosophy behind space settlements

# 13214 byalglobus@... on Feb. 23, 2014, 2:45 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:27 PM, wrote:

> We may have enough data about the space environment to build a machine that will survive in space and support life - at least most of the time.
> But we definitely do not have enough data out on the table to design a sustainable group.

Considering that homo sapiens have been living in groups for tens of thousands of years, it would seem that we know how to do that. Most of that time it was in rather small groups in a very dangerous environment.
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We may have enough data about the space environment to build a machine that will survive in space and support life - at least most of the time.
But we definitely do not have enough data out on the table to design a sustainable group.

Considering that homo sapiens have been living in groups for tens of thousands of years, it would seem that we know how to do that. Most of that time it was in rather small groups in a very dangerous environment.