Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan...
by ekianjo on Saturday September 07, 2019 @10:42AM
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> It would take maybe a hundred years or so for space colonies to declare their independence.
To think that in one hundred years any outer space colony will be self sufficient compared to whatever is produced and available on Earth is highly unlikely even in our wildest dreams now. We have literally no pathway for complete self sustainability on other planets in sight, and as long as this remains true space colonies will have no power to break out from whoever they depend on.
Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan...
by Marsymars on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:05PM
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There already exist successful sovereign states that have no pathway to self-sustainability at a modern level of living due to lack of food or oil production.
To think that in one hundred years any outer space colony will be self sufficient compared to whatever is produced and available on Earth is highly unlikely even in our wildest dreams now. We have literally no pathway for complete self sustainability on other planets in sight, and as long as this remains true space colonies will have no power to break out from whoever they depend on.