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In article <1lmuydu4994g5$.t4fzrb70tyvg.dlg@40tude.net>,
Brian M. Scott <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:44:59 -0000,
><jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote
>in<news:reddcd-jhj.ln1@mail.specsol.com> in
>rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,alt.astronomy:
>
>> In sci.physics Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 18:41:18 -0000,
>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>
>>>> In sci.physics David DeLaney
>>>> <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>>>> On 2016-10-04, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
>>>>> <jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>> In sci.physics David DeLaney
>>>>>> <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>>>>>> On 2016-10-03, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
>>>>>>> <jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>>>> It is difficult to conceive of anything making the
>>>>>>>> Earth more uninhabitable than Mars.
>
>>>>>>> Parts of the Earth already are, dear. People send
>>>>>>> scientific and military expeditions there anyway.
>
>>>>>> Where on the Earth would you have to wear a pressure
>>>>>> suit to live more than a few seconds and have to
>>>>>> have your food, air and water shipped in from
>>>>>> millions of miles away?
>
>>>>> "On"? No. "Millions"? no, but fairly difficult and
>>>>> time consuming for each and every shipment.
>
>>>>> Hint: Arthur Curry was a native.
>
>>>>On the surface of the Earth, scifi besotted child.
>
>>> Arthur Curry is better known as Aquaman.  He's talking
>>> about under the ocean -- which is certainly "parts of
>>> the Earth."
>
>> Yes, I know, thus my scifi besotted child comment.
>
>> When rational adult people talk about living somewhere,
>> they are generally talking about living above ground and
>> above water. 
>
>In the context of a discussion of alien/exotic habitats?
>Not necessarily, no.  As would be obvious to a rational
>adult person.
>
>> Assuming someone for some arcane reason wanted to live
>> under water on Earth, doing so is technically and
>> logistically trivial. 
>
>No.

But I saw a documentary!

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYeylQV6VE
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