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The Space Review: Colonizing Antarctica and other anti-space fables
merges whenever feasibility and desirability of space colonization is debated: “Why don’t we colonize Antarctica?” Or, perhaps a more sophisticated version: “Why don’t we colonize Antarctica first?” Shouldn’t that be easier? Shouldn’t that be more “natural”?[1] These are ostensibly reasonable questions that, on some further reflection, turn out to be irrelevant, misguided, and confusing, not to mention often malevolent. There are at least five different reasons why that is so, outlined here roughly in order of decreasing importance.
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