We’ve got a lot of problems with space before we can ever put a trillion people in space. Between the vacuum and radiation of space and the fact that our bodies don’t function well in extended zero-G, just keeping a few people alive up there is a monumental task. Then you have the potential for industrial accidents to poison the entire ecosystem and micrometeorite impacts trying to ventilate the structure - a structure that is being weakened by constant exposure to cosmic radiation.
I mean eventually we have to go to space or die and I prefer the former but we are very, very far away from that. To the point where the suggestion is science fiction, not being a visionary pioneer.
We don’t even know if it is possible to successfully give birth to a healthy baby in space. Even if we got one of these colonies up and running, it may only last a generation if the population can’t be self-sustaining.
We’ve got a lot of problems with space before we can ever put a trillion people in space. Between the vacuum and radiation of space and the fact that our bodies don’t function well in extended zero-G, just keeping a few people alive up there is a monumental task. Then you have the potential for industrial accidents to poison the entire ecosystem and micrometeorite impacts trying to ventilate the structure - a structure that is being weakened by constant exposure to cosmic radiation.
I mean eventually we have to go to space or die and I prefer the former but we are very, very far away from that. To the point where the suggestion is science fiction, not being a visionary pioneer.
We don’t even know if it is possible to successfully give birth to a healthy baby in space. Even if we got one of these colonies up and running, it may only last a generation if the population can’t be self-sustaining.