Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Every place we might settle in space - giant rotating rings, the Moon, Mars - is ...
Every place we might settle in space - giant rotating rings, the Moon, Mars - is vastly more hostile than Earth. Not just more hostile than Earth as it stands today - the most degraded, climate-wracked, nuke-blasted Earth you can imagine is a paradise of habitability compared to anything else. Mars is covered in poison and the sky disappears under planet-sized storms that go on and on.
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