Re:Red Dwarfs Will Be Humanity’s Last Home Before the Univer...
by adastra22 on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:08AM
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You're a pessimist. If we can survive long enough to have sustainable settlements away from this planet and moving out to the stars, there will be no stamping out humanity.
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Re:Red Dwarfs Will Be Humanity’s Last Home Before the Univer...
by rbanffy on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:40AM
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The time scales are so vast that’s hard to answer that. We also need to be able to expand do other systems as well. At that stage, I wonder what the appeal of being a planet-hugger is - if we can live in city ships in deep space, why would we want to go into a gravity well just to see a planetary surface from up close?
Re:Red Dwarfs Will Be Humanity’s Last Home Before the Univer...
by adastra22 on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:17AM
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The appeal of an inner solar system would be the Dyson swarm surrounding the star, powering a Jupiter-sized matryoshka brain. But most of humanity would live in the vastness between the stars: taking a sun with us in the form of portable fusion power, and making a home among the trillions of Kuiper belt and Oort cloud objects between the stars. Hopping from rock to rock, sprouting villages, towns, and cities with each step an blossoming humanity into uncountable many descendant civilizations.