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Comment by vlyan | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]vlyan · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:43 UTC · link
space colonization is a fantasy from the era of rapidly growing population. now that the population is shrinking at near-extinction speed, what's the point of it? the Earth is not and will never be as inhospitable to us as dystopian sci-fi depicts. even Antarctica is a better target for colonization that Mars, where the gravity is wrong, the air is poison, and the soil is poison.
[−]ETH_start · 2026-11-15 Sun 03:24 UTC · link
Population decline is due to government restrictions. Space colonization offers an escape from those restrictions.
[−]vlyan · 2026-11-15 Sun 06:43 UTC · link
huh? what restrictions? China's one child policy was abandoned more than a decade ago, now replaced with "pls have children, as many as you like!" policy.