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From: jdnic...@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: [tor dot com] Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era
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by: James Nicoll - Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:06 UTC

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by: Lynn McGuire - Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:26 UTC

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by: David Johnston - Thu, 2 Sep 2021 04:01 UTC

On 2021-08-16 7:06 a.m., James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era
> https://www.tor.com/2021/08/16/five-fictional-space-colonies-from-the-post-disco-era/
>

As a gamer I've sneered at Transhuman Space's space colonies as an
interesting setting to game in not because I dislike "cities" as such
but because they aren't bringing anything new to the table. They're
just cities. We have plenty of cities on Earth. Why would I bother
taking the campaign into space if there's nothing there that can't be
found on Earth?

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by: Quadibloc - Thu, 2 Sep 2021 12:09 UTC

On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 7:06:08 AM UTC-6, James Nicoll wrote:
> Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era
> https://www.tor.com/2021/08/16/five-fictional-space-colonies-from-the-post-disco-era/

Cole and Cox were exactly right: nuclear weapons _would_ be less significant
if humans were dispersed across much larger distances.

While rocket launches are too expensive to directly deal with population
increase, if space colonies harbored a population thousands of times
greater than that of Earth, they might have the immense resources needed
to get people off of Earth.

However, I suspect that the only real way to move large numbers of people from
Earth is with uploading - an upload could bring along genetic material from his
or her former flesh body, so uploads could still reproduce once reaching space.

If people didn't need life-support, and could fit into a space the size of a matchbox,
sending people into space would be less difficult.

John Savard

Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde

arts / rec.arts.sf.written / Re: [tor dot com] Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era

Subject	Author
[tor dot com] Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era	James Nicoll
Re: [tor dot com] Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco	Lynn McGuire
Re: [tor dot com] Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco	David Johnston
Re: [tor dot com] Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era	Quadibloc