You're right :) The principle counts almost everywhere. Growth has limits.
And it is perhaps even worse when they can tell how many others have done this already, because then you know that there are probably limited possibilities left.
An interesting phenomenon is that the more people are inside a petri dish, the more others want to enter, even though the environment may not be ideal.
I remember those books! I also remember my mom telling me that when she went to school, Geography was easy because half of the world was just the USSR. Not only is moving to Mars sad, but it's doomed to failure: unless humans radically change our mindset, we will end up trashing Mars, too.
Yes, geography was easier. Sometimes, I would think, the easier maps were a result of lacing information. We can make any description, also in the shape of a map, as complex as we want, if only we can find the details.
I have a map of Russia from just after the end of the Soviet Union, and it is not an easy map in any way, having 75 regions, states, and city-regions, all basically individually governed areas in a large federation. Then, around it, are Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, and many other countries that for a while were part of the Soviet.
Now we see them. Before, we didn't, but they were there. Treated as separate entities with some rights and duties inside the Soviet Union. There are always such an extra level of details to anything. Such details that might make a difference some day.
I agree regarding Mars. The ideas are science fiction so far, but even with that in mind, they are focused on dragging out resources of the planet through mining. We don't seem to get the point that if anything should survive, we shouldn't just drag out what it consists of, we should cycle through stages of existence for the different elements we use, such as minerals, water, plants, and then make sure that there is a balance. I have not heard the word "balance" used in connection with Mars, so it doesn't seem to have been thought into any of the ideas.
This is exactly why we can't all make millions writing on Substack, despite what all the "grow-your-substack-gurus" say 😉
You're right :) The principle counts almost everywhere. Growth has limits.
And it is perhaps even worse when they can tell how many others have done this already, because then you know that there are probably limited possibilities left.
An interesting phenomenon is that the more people are inside a petri dish, the more others want to enter, even though the environment may not be ideal.
You're right – we tend to gather. Must be a social instinct of some kind.
I remember those books! I also remember my mom telling me that when she went to school, Geography was easy because half of the world was just the USSR. Not only is moving to Mars sad, but it's doomed to failure: unless humans radically change our mindset, we will end up trashing Mars, too.
Yes, geography was easier. Sometimes, I would think, the easier maps were a result of lacing information. We can make any description, also in the shape of a map, as complex as we want, if only we can find the details.
I have a map of Russia from just after the end of the Soviet Union, and it is not an easy map in any way, having 75 regions, states, and city-regions, all basically individually governed areas in a large federation. Then, around it, are Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, and many other countries that for a while were part of the Soviet.
Now we see them. Before, we didn't, but they were there. Treated as separate entities with some rights and duties inside the Soviet Union. There are always such an extra level of details to anything. Such details that might make a difference some day.
I agree regarding Mars. The ideas are science fiction so far, but even with that in mind, they are focused on dragging out resources of the planet through mining. We don't seem to get the point that if anything should survive, we shouldn't just drag out what it consists of, we should cycle through stages of existence for the different elements we use, such as minerals, water, plants, and then make sure that there is a balance. I have not heard the word "balance" used in connection with Mars, so it doesn't seem to have been thought into any of the ideas.