alt Hacker News> space has practically infinite everything - land, resources, energy
The Earth has more land than mankind will ever need. The Earth has effectively infinite energy from the Sun. And most of the resources we need are derived from biological matter, which Space lacks.
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mmooss • yesterday at 10:41 PM
Yes, especially if you add up the ocean floors, Antarctica, Siberia and northern Canada ... all far, far more hospitable, useful, and cost-effective than anything in space.
TeMPOraL • yesterday at 8:24 PM
That's 3/3 complete bullshit, and first two doesn't even take high school level math to disprove completely.
I get it though. This is just how naturalism looks like when runs out of arguments in its favor.
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Ah, but humanity is an expansive and consuming force, as is natural since most forces in the universe are entropy increasing ones. And since amino acids have been discovered on asteroids and tardigrades and fungus have been shown to survive space travel, we can't even say that Space provably lacks biological matter. Expanding (back?) into space is our manifest destiny, and good for the price of real estate too since all of earth becomes a luxury destination.