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2007-06-18

The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy

"I write SF for a living. Possibly because of this, folks seem to think I ought to be an enthusiastic proponent of space exploration and space colonization. Space exploration? Yep, that's a fair cop — I'm all in favour of advancing the scientific enterprise. But actual space colonisation is another matter entirely, and those of a sensitive (or optimistic) disposition might want to stop reading right now ..."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high_frontier_redux.html

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