Most vermin on this planet reflexively build nests all over the place to accommodate population growth. Its a sickness
… I don’t get this comic. Is it satirical, or is it just not saying anything?
What is saying is that our style of life is stupid and boring compared to our ambitions. It’s why I don’t bother traveling. Little bit of different geography and I’m still just hanging out inside for comfort and amenities.
This kind of thing is why I’m most interested in abstractions and stuff like dancing.
It’s why I don’t bother traveling. Little bit of different geography and I’m still just hanging out inside for comfort and amenities.
Have you considered not staying at a resort/cruise ship? Like yeah I don’t understand why people who just hang out inside travel either, that’s why I don’t do that.
Seems to be making the point that it would be kind of dumb to spread across the solar system just making the other planets just as messed up as what we are currently doing on Earth.
There’s not so much to mess up on, say, Mars. I mean the terrain is interesting in its way but it’s not like we’d be annihilating complex ecosystems like we are here on earth. We would have to establish significant ecosystems anywhere we settled, in fact.
Honestly making all our corporate bullshit buildings on other barren planets would be way better than acting like a cancer on the ecosystem on earth. If we manage to become space fairing, I hope they can restore earth and reduce our spread on it. We don’t need concrete jungles.
It’s so ridiculous. We can do that at home. There’s literally no point in living in Mars. No air no gravity, no radiation protection. Even if we make the air here radioactive and the water poisonous, at least there’s air and water.
We need that terraforming exercise to eventually leave the solar system though. Stars don’t live indefinitely. But we probably have to grow up first and try in a couple of centuries.
It’s not like this makes up for everything else, but there is gravity on Mars
I love space exploration for science, but living in Mars makes no sense, sorry. Even in the solar system there’s better places to settle. Heck, even venus is better.
Actually, it’s a lot better to dig, free radiation shield!
My plan is to use concentrated sunlight to tunnel directly through an asteroid and use the material to build a small O’Neill cylinder inside. The rest of the rock would provide radiation shielding so the cylinder would be cheaper to construct, and we can send sunlight into the cylinder from either end using the same mirrors we carved the asteroid with.
Mood debuff from the game Rimworld where if you spend too long without going outside, you get a severe penalty.
In other words, being underground for long (or indefinite) periods would probably have a profoundly negative effect on people’s moods.
https://poorlydrawnstore.com/products/our-future-in-space-print
In case you’re like my space friends who want this as a poster
