/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11359022
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>>11359027
There's something like 2,000 sats up right now from like every company and country in the world. If you stare at the sky long enough and have okay vision then you can normally see about a dozen of them.

>>8799884
Pretty much all those images trigger me. That one even has sports fields.

>>8799954
As soon as you start altering someone's genes as something they will pass on to their children they are no longer homo sapiens.

If an off-world colony can't be self sustaining then they are going to die out when something trivial happens on Earth that prevents supplies from reaching them. All it takes is one Muhammad to trigger Kessler syndrome around Earth and all space travel is fucked for decades. It is one thing to have less than a dozen people on ISS or a lunar base, it is something else when you have 10k to 100k on a colony.