| ▲ | SoftTalker 4 hours ago |
| No other place is habitable within a light day of the sun. |
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| ▲ | diputsmonro 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A good argument for making sure our planet stays habitable. Caring about the environment isn't just for hippies anymore! |
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| ▲ | PeaceTed 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | That is it. When you become very aware of just how amazingly far away everything else is, fighting over a speak of dust and the only home we have seems absolutely ridiculous. A great long form video on this is "Shouting at stars : A history of interstellar messages". It really highlights just how empty it all is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFI5WpK2sgg | | | |
| ▲ | mythz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Works up until the earth becomes uninhabitable in 600M years, before then humans are going to need to find and colonize a different planet. | |
| ▲ | idkfasayer 7 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | d_silin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| ISS is one such place. |
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| ▲ | Maxatar 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | My understanding is that ISS is not self-sustaining even in principle. It consistently needs to be resupplied with water and breathable air as the station continuously leaks it. These resupplies happen about once every month or two. This article goes into quite a few details about what would be needed for actual self-sustainable human space exploration and it looks like there's quite a few engineering challenges to work out. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/space-technologies/arti... | | |
| ▲ | PeaceTed 42 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Not only that but they have to routinely boost its orbital velocity as there is still a little atmospheric drag at the height. |
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