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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by freehunter on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:59PM (#21869990)
That exact argument could be made against disaster recovery data centers. Why bother building a new data center and buying two servers when you could just have one and save tons of money?
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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by microtherion on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:11AM (#21870660)
There's no place in the solar system that's remotely as habitable as Earth, even if the latter suffers a massive disaster.

Space exploration is more like Amazon spending $100B to build a hut with 10 Arduinos on the summit of Mt. Everest.

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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by tprice7 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:05AM (#21870413)
The argument isn't that we shouldn't colonize other planets because it's expensive, it's that we shouldn't colonize other planets because it's Pareto inferior to making orbital habitats.
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