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Very interesting to read, but sounds so astronomically expensive and reliant on zero mistakes in every single aspect of manufacturing every single thing going into the pods, that no one will sustain paying for this shit beyond angel investors.

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you should read michael chrichton’s book sphere. it talks about some of the tom & jerry tier physics and biology disasters that can happen in a deep sea habitat

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Yep I own a hardcover of it; fucking fantastic book, and excellent film adaptation.

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Ooh. Dunno about the adaptation side of things. I will say that I read the damned thing all in one night. Had to stay home from classes after doing so. Good book, to say the least.

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Many people said the same things about the ISS, I’m sure.

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Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones

There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit

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What government is interested in this project. Please name one.

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Well, they gotta get those angels somehow

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