• ooterness@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Remember how Biosphere 2 went so badly that the crew nearly starved to death, but no one bothered doing a Biosphere 3? That might be a good step before attempting long-term Moon or Mars missions.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, I think of that every time somebody starts talking about fallout shelters, space stations or bases on the moon or Mars. It’s definitely not a solved problem.

    • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      38 minutes ago

      No, we just need more money and it’ll be fine.

      That’s the thing about centralized planning-you think everything’s possible if you just throw more slaves at the problem. And modern autocrats (musk, bezos, bin-salman) don’t seem to understand that this just isn’t true.

      Edita;: they’re trying to do new kinds of things, rather than ‘big building’, and it just doesn’t work for that. You need thought for that.