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OftenBen  ·  1806 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sci-Fi club no. 40: A Colder War Discussion

    I loved the use of alien world as an last ditch escape. Except it totally contradict the point of the great Filter being finding alien world, and using their tech, if we can fly there and start again.

So, the 'shelter' they had set up on the alien world is really that, a shelter.

People can talk about starting a colony all they want, but it's not going to happen.

The world is dry, the air too thin, the sun too dim to really support the kind of high energy metabolism of Earth biology, even if you could make enough changes to the atmosphere.

XK-Masada isn't a new Earth, it's just the desert island where last lifeboat washed up.





ooli  ·  1804 days ago  ·  link  ·  

your lack of faith in human ingenuity is disturbing

OftenBen  ·  1804 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't suggest The Laundry Files enough if you enjoyed this piece.

Stross uses XK-Masada or something a lot like it in a later story.

There are eldritch reasons why it will never be a new Eden.