alt Hacker News> What is the point in having a colony of maybe dozens of people completely dependent on shipments from Earth?
The Jamestown colony relied on shipments from England.
> Building a self-sustaining colony is so far outside the realm of possibility that it isn't worth thinking about
And look at what America became.
Jamestown went to a place where humans had lived for thousands of years. They used shipments from England, but they didn't need them at any time.