This is an excellent meditation by Charlie Stross on the failings of the language we use to depict #Space travel and settlement.
Worth the time of anyone writing in #SFF, even if you might wince at the comment about TNG!
(But we've all had our "throw-book-at-wall" moments with SF media, no?)
#WritersOfCoSo #WritingCommunity #StarTrek lovers beware
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/10/conceptual-models-of-space-col.html
@MLClark charlie was one of the first bloggers ever. I found Antipope in 1995.
@MLClark Dilbert Stark is good, hadn't heard that one.
Robots. NASA's had great success with relatively cheap robots. Send a swarm of them to tunnel into the moon, build something airtight. Maybe if we can do that we can talk about sending fragile squishy water bags
This be good stuff.
I remember talking to my dad, about the "colony model" as we read SF in the 60's and 70's.
His take was that this has so many failure modes, that it's
success was highly in doubt.
My take is a pseudo religious model stemming from Buddhist practices. A sort of a repeat of how Buddhism came to spread across the world. Not in opposition to local ecology and culture. But in acceptance and re-definition of.
@MLClark Thanks for sharing this was a good article
Short of being able to have unlimited energy and the means to use that energy to made food, and air. a colony is always going to struggle.and it gets worse the further from the sun and solar energy
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Stross is always worth reading.