The fantasy of colonizing a new planet is the fantasy of a blank slate: imagine what we could do if…

samiholloway : notalittleatall : quasi-normalcy : quasi-normalcy : quasi-normalcy : quasi-normalcy : I actually think that science fiction has done everyone a disservice by presenting escaping to another planet as a remotely feasible near-term solution to problems on Earth. Like, I’m sorry, but if terraforming Mars is an option then why can’t we just terraform the Earth? (I mean, this last bit…