Cory Doctorow on Nostr: We aren't anywhere near being a "multiplanetary species." The number of humans you ...
We aren't anywhere near being a "multiplanetary species." The number of humans you need in a colony to establish a new population is hard to estimate, but it's *very* large. Larger than we can foreseeably establish on the Moon, on Mars, or on a space-station.
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