<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I hope that I live to see the day when solitary confinement is declared to be cruel punishment. Even 24 hours of it can seriously unhinge someone. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 2:52 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Slate have an article up about how humans will find it very difficult to<br>
cope with space travel and living on other planets or asteroids.<br>
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<<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/spacex-starship-space-travel-paradox.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/spacex-starship-space-travel-paradox.html</a>><br>
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The Spacefaring Paradox<br>
Deep-space human travel is a lose-lose proposition.<br>
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By Christopher Schaber May 25, 2021<br>
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Quotes:<br>
If there’s one collective lesson gleaned from the COVID pandemic so<br>
far, it may be the shared difficulty of being isolated in one’s own<br>
home—whether alone or with family members or roommates.<br>
When space closes in, humans tend not to thrive. It can drive us to<br>
the brink of craziness.<br>
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If the dream of space travel involves new horizons and feelings of<br>
unbound freedom—to explore, to discover, to spread humanity—a<br>
nightmare lurks just around the corner of consciousness. There will be<br>
no real “arrival” on this fantasy trip: It’s enclosures and<br>
pressurized chambers all the way down. When it comes to human space<br>
travel, the destination really is the journey. And the journey will be<br>
long, and claustrophobic.<br>
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I think I mostly agree. Humans are designed for the wide-open spaces<br>
of Earth. Space is interesting to visit for a while, but I wouldn't<br>
much want a life spent in a tin can.<br>
I vote to send the robots instead.<br>
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BillK<br>
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