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Re:Let's Colonize Titan by mypalmike on Sunday November 27, 2016 @03:53PM (#13051478)
> One requires massive social and economic change. The other requires sending a limited number of people to another part of the solar system.

Do social and economic factors magically not apply to people who colonize the solar system? Seems to me you now have 2 problems.

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Re:Let's Colonize Titan by incongruity on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:11AM (#13053551)
The scale and selectivity of a new colony make it vastly simpler, IMHO.

Scale is the critical thing here - even small social change at scale is hard - examples are aplenty.

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