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@ZachWeinersmith I've done this a few times when friends ask me how I made something. I remember it most with a broccoli cheddar soup recipe.
"So you start by making a roux..."
<blank look>
"Uh well, okay, so you take butter and flour"
@ZachWeinersmith I'm not necessarily interested in urgency, so much as any plausible case for any benefit to any person that would come from living on another planet/moon.
I can't come up with a single one that could justify even living on Mars, let alone somewhere that would require decades of travel time to get to.
It's like people believe that the United Federation of Planets is out there just waiting for us to get our act together and join them.
@ZachWeinersmith watching people talk about the Artemis II mission, so many of them use language that implies it's *very important* for humans to achieve the status of an interplanetary civilization. It's never stated directly, though, just vaguely gestured at or taken for granted as a baseline assumption.
Has anyone made a robust and detailed case for human expansion to the stars? Or even just to Mars? I read your book, but don't recall that particular argument showing up.
@dys_morphia I have one of these as well! I am completely and totally convinced that the character of Jack Sparrow was directly lifted from the character of Jack Crow in John Steakley's book "Armor".
