• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    Of course we can. We could build a giant rotating shielded space station. We have all the technology, we just haven’t done it because it’s expensive.

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      7 months ago

      I studied theoretical astrophysics as part of an earth and space exploration field.

      Trust me, we really don’t just have all the technology. That doesn’t answer a lot of problems and you are assuming our level of science.

      We might be able to figure out a good chunk of it if money is of no cost but that’s no guarantee.

      Man not even to talk about material cost. It would take us decades.

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          Yeah I am not inspired to actually bother answering that if you are coming into this without an expectation of an actual conversation.

          It sounds more like you want a fight and that’s not what I’m doing.

          Space is not an easy answer. Even if you just want it to be.

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              7 months ago

              Yeah and you are doing the same. I pulled my credentials you just don’t want to be wrong cause it hurts your feelings.

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                7 months ago

                I’m asking for examples of how it won’t work. I’ve given examples of how I believe it would work.

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                  Your example was a generic from science fiction vague statement about a shielded rotating space station.

                  You have no experience or expertise to back up your statement.

                  It ignores the extra damage a large space station takes from micro asteroids by being a larger target. It ignores fuel costs of moving something that large into orbit. It ignores food and oxygen limitations on populace. It ignores low gravity birth issues. Radiation issues. Issues of diseases, resources collection and management.

                  You made a vague uneducated guess of an idea and demanded it be the requirement of others to prove you wrong.

                  You took the same argument style of a maga conspiracy conservative.

                  Stop being such a a child and a martyr.

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                    I said we had the technology, you condescending dumbass. All those issues are solvable, they’re just not practical to solve. Not right now anyway. If earth became uninhabitable, we would find the money and motivation.

                    Name a scientific hurdle. Not a logistical one, not an economic one, an actual issue that we do not have the technology to mitigate.

                    Also, stop being a condescending dumbass. Either thing alone is bad enough, but being both stupid and arrogant is particularly annoying.