>>13983390if we really focused every last resource on interplanetary travel and employed some kind of authoritarian neo-communist style enforcement of that focus, I think it’s plausible we could inhabit a good number of the rocky bodies in the solar system (moon, mars, titan, enceladus, etc.) or at least move a significant number of the human population to orbital stations around those bodies
in a capitalistic, profit-driven civilization? it’s absolutely undoubtedly cope. our current economic structure not only permits tremendous waste but perpetuates it, and anyways we’re probably past the point of being able to extract enough unrenewable resources to do this
