I read a piece of short science fiction around 2009 in which one of the background details was that humanity spent billions of dollars on getting ready for a mars mission and the mars mission never happened but the technology developed for it made people really good at living in parts of the sahara, arizona etc where people previously did not live. I think about this sometimes
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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 09:12:04 JST mcc -
Foone🏳️⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 09:12:04 JST Foone🏳️⚧️ @mcc it's a good point. It'd be easier to colonize Antarctica than Mars, after all.
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