It appears that Interstellar inadvertently vindicated Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: It appears that Interstellar inadvertently vindicated
# 13478 byalglobus@... on Nov. 22, 2014, 2:12 a.m.
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On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:38 PM, Christopher Davidson cdmitridavidson@...m [spacesettlers] wrote:
To survive in a space settlement will require excellent understanding of all of the systems involved in order to perform the necessary maintenance and trouble-shoot problems. Without that understanding something will go wrong and everyone will die.
Wherever settlers come from, they will have to be highly educated, technologically adept and scientifically literate. In other words, people who can do well in todays economy on Earth. That means settlements will have to be very attractive places to live.
cdmitridavidson@...
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In order to settle space for real, we need mass immigration on the scale that populated the United States, Australia, Canada, etc. and it will have to come from poorer areas of the world like SubSaharan Africa, South Asia, etc. where the prospects of settling a far-off home near an asteroid, however distant from what is familiar, will seem like an attractive option compared to staying at home. Can we do that?
To survive in a space settlement will require excellent understanding of all of the systems involved in order to perform the necessary maintenance and trouble-shoot problems. Without that understanding something will go wrong and everyone will die.
Wherever settlers come from, they will have to be highly educated, technologically adept and scientifically literate. In other words, people who can do well in todays economy on Earth. That means settlements will have to be very attractive places to live.