Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: 1st Mars Colonists Should Be 'Prepared to Die,' Elon Musk Says Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:44:59 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: <2p8bcd-afc.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="30658"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lRD0vwFO5uyND2KRwn8P4" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1ZOemHhBy/7YxY7tfvz1nMQuTaI= Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:452974 sci.physics:599426 alt.astronomy:286545 In sci.physics Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 18:41:18 -0000, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > >>In sci.physics David DeLaney wrote: >>> On 2016-10-04, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >>>> In sci.physics David DeLaney wrote: >>>>> On 2016-10-03, 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. Assuming someone for some arcane reason wanted to live under water on Earth, doing so is technically and logistically trivial. -- Jim Pennino