As numerous people have said, this is *the* reason we need to get self-sufficient colonies *off* earth.
That way we won't have all our eggs in one basket.
Also what we'll learn about closed ecologies will be needed to terraform earth. :-(
If we can get over that hump (and regardless of how folks feel about Branson, Bezos, et al they *are* working on getting us off this rock) then destroying humanity gets a lot harder.
Silly thought. Folks who think the California agriculture inspectors at the border are a pain will be unpleasantly surprised at the inspections they'll get if they visit a colony that still has a somewhat unstable ecosystem!
Not so silly thought. In a widespread interstellar civilization there are going to be horror stories about colonies that accidentally killed a critical link in the local ecosystem before they could get a sufficiently large "terran" ecosystem established.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2022-01-07 05:15 am (UTC)That way we won't have all our eggs in one basket.
Also what we'll learn about closed ecologies will be needed to terraform earth. :-(
If we can get over that hump (and regardless of how folks feel about Branson, Bezos, et al they *are* working on getting us off this rock) then destroying humanity gets a lot harder.
Silly thought. Folks who think the California agriculture inspectors at the border are a pain will be unpleasantly surprised at the inspections they'll get if they visit a colony that still has a somewhat unstable ecosystem!
Not so silly thought. In a widespread interstellar civilization there are going to be horror stories about colonies that accidentally killed a critical link in the local ecosystem before they could get a sufficiently large "terran" ecosystem established.