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chrissnell 6 hours ago

A hedge against civilization-destroying events. Meteors, global war, disease.

phlakaton 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Space is not a hedge against these things. At best it's our final tomb.

There is no backup plan.

petrocrat 5 hours ago | parent [-]

to be fair, in the pharoahs quest for immortality after death, if they could have put their pyramid burial tombs in space to avoid decay/ruin for longer they would have. I wouldn't be shocked to see the oligarchs paying for their own space burials inside very lavish satellites whose orbit won't decay for thousands of years so they can "live forever".