This is an excellent meditation by Charlie Stross on the failings of the language we use to depict travel and settlement.

Worth the time of anyone writing in , 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?)

lovers beware

antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat

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@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

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