{"id":490,"date":"2024-06-15T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=490"},"modified":"2024-06-15T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T18:02:12","slug":"colonizing-outer-space-is-foolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Colonizing Outer Space is Foolish"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent article at Ars Technica<\/a> highlights the utter foolishness of trying to make living spaces for humans in outer space to address terrestrial overcrowding and population growth.\u00a0 The article is about leaks that are developing in the International Space Station, and how impossible it is to correct them.<\/p>\n

Plumbers know these things already.\u00a0 In fact, mankind generally knows that things go wrong and you have to watch what you’re doing, lest you get into trouble.\u00a0 Children learn this by playing outdoors.<\/p>\n

It takes a lot of work to build something that will hold up. After that, it takes a fair amount of attention to maintain a living space.\u00a0 You need trained technicians and a support system of roads, utilities, manufacturers, and logistics for getting the replacement part (or whatever is needed) into the hand of the worker who will fix the problem.\u00a0 The weather has to cooperate to one degree or another.\u00a0 You need a communication system and personnel management to handle things if the worker suddenly falls ill.<\/p>\n

Stuff goes wrong; that is the way of the world.\u00a0 You don’t install something in such a way that, when things go south, the damage is disastrous.<\/p>\n

And that’s just here on earth, the place God designed\u00a0exquisitely<\/em> to be inhabited by man.<\/p>\n

Trying to replicate that on, say, the moon, where the temperature varies from 200 degrees below zero to 200 above, is inconceivable.\u00a0 A leak will occur.\u00a0 When you can’t fix it, what will you do with that population you shipped up there, ostensibly to help the situation down here?\u00a0 How many, you say?\u00a0 You shipped two billion people to the moon to relieve overcrowding and food shortages on earth?\u00a0 Dear, dear, dear . . . .<\/p>\n

Oh, but maybe you won’t ship billions up there in hundreds of millions of space flights. Maybe you’ll just send work crews to mine precious minerals. On the moon, the minerals seem to be at the poles, where the temperatures are even more extreme.\u00a0 So you’ll build a bubble and then scratch in the ground beneath the bubble, maybe?\u00a0 After, of course, you’ve filled the bubble with air from a tank?\u00a0 You’re gonna need a lot of air, y’know.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to keep things going down here.\u00a0 It’s unthinkable that it could be done in outer space. Enough already!\u00a0 Put the money into highway maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent article at Ars Technica highlights the utter foolishness of trying to make living spaces for humans in outer space to address terrestrial overcrowding and population growth.\u00a0 The article is about leaks that are developing in the International Space Station, and how impossible it is to correct them. Plumbers know these things already.\u00a0 In … Continue reading “Colonizing Outer Space is Foolish”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-7U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}