blessmycottonsocks
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Today's Guardian contains a well-written article promoting the idea of establishing a Moon-base.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/12/life-on-moon-chris-hadfield#comments
Sadly, a lot of the comments are of the typical Guardianista variety arguing that it would be wrong to create extraterrestrial colonies before we've sorted out all the problems on Earth.
With that Luddite attitude, humankind would never have left Olduvai Gorge or invented the wheel.
Surely, the best way to preserve our environment on Earth is to expand our horizons from this finite chunk of rock, with its rapidly dwindling natural resources, to the potentially virtually infinite space out there?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/12/life-on-moon-chris-hadfield#comments
Sadly, a lot of the comments are of the typical Guardianista variety arguing that it would be wrong to create extraterrestrial colonies before we've sorted out all the problems on Earth.
With that Luddite attitude, humankind would never have left Olduvai Gorge or invented the wheel.
Surely, the best way to preserve our environment on Earth is to expand our horizons from this finite chunk of rock, with its rapidly dwindling natural resources, to the potentially virtually infinite space out there?