Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Problem solving: elevator story

[Howard Landman (howard]

> I know a VERY cost-effective solution:
> Stay firmly planted on mother-earth.  

That'll only work for a couple billion more years.  Then we'll
need to find a new home because the sun will be dying.  Might
as well start looking now.

     (By "we" I mean the entire terrestrial biosphere, not just humans.
     Homo sapiens just happens to be the organ through which the
     earth is looking, and reaching, outwards.  Redwood trees aren't
     going to make it to another star system without help.)

Besides, the Earth experiences an "Extinction Level Event" like the
impact that wiped out the dinosaurs much more often than that - maybe
once every 50 to 100 million years.  The safest thing would be to
have more than one habitable planet before the next one.

In the shorter term: You'd rather run cables all over the planet than
have a few communications satellites at a tiny fraction of the cost?
What a waste of copper and glass ...

        Howard A. Landman

P.S. I wonder if cohousing principles would be useful on a
     multi-generation space voyage?  Would make an interesting
     premise or sub-plot for a sci-fi novel ...
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