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Re:Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia by paulryanrogers on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:34PM (#25806574)
Unless there are significant breakthroughs you'd exhaust or pollute much of Earth's resources to build a poor substitute on a planet that cannot naturally sustain human life.
Re:Oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia by abecedarius on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:54PM (#25807056)
It'd be inefficient anyway to use Earth resources except for some early bootstrapping. Extraterrestrial resources (asteroids, the moon, solar power, local resources on Mars) are more accessible. And it's underappreciated that for what you do need from Earth, launch can get much cheaper/cleaner after enough development in space, just as an elevator system gets more efficient with a counterweight.