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UlyssesT [he/him] · 14 hours ago

This thread about escapist space treats and fantasizing about escaping Earth's problems is already producing fresh parroting of old E~L~O~N ad copy and it's going to get worse in the next few hours.

Concured [she/her] · edit-2 11 hours ago

A few years back famed sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson (of Mars Trilogy fame) wrote a space book where the takeaway was basically about how interstellar colonization is hard and sucks, and that maybe we should appreciate living on our precious planet Earth.

And a certain section of sci-fi nerds got so mad.

Think about that a lot with stuff like this. Kill the space nerd in your head folks.

Assian_Candor [comrade/them] · 9 hours ago

Do you know the name of the book by chance

Hexboare [they/them] · 8 hours ago

Maybe aurora?

Assian_Candor [comrade/them] · 8 hours ago

Yeah looks like that's it ty

This thread about escapist space treats and fantasizing about escaping Earth's problems is already producing fresh parroting of old E~L~O~N ad copy and it's going to get worse in the next few hours.

This thread about escapist space treats and fantasizing about escaping Earth's problems is already producing fresh parroting of old E~L~O~N ad copy and it's going to get worse in the next few hours.

Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff? - Hexbear