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The Mars Delusion

There will be tourism, and prestige luxury merchandise (Zubrin submits that the settlers might export artificial Martian diamonds tinted with a regolith hue). Perhaps they could sell the broadcast rights to low-gravity spectator sports like rover racing or something "comparable to the exhilarating Quidditch games" in Harry Potter; on Mars, Zubrin points out, "basketball players will be able to jump three times as high."

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Weekly Dose of Optimism #194

The current paradigm, in which human civilization is confined to one planet, exposes humanity to existential threats that are unpredictable and uncontrollable on a planetary scale. By moving beyond the only home we have ever known, we ensure species-level redundancy and that the light of consciousness will not be tied to a single planet subject to the inevitable hazards of a harsh and vast universe.

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Star Catcher’s Andrew Rush: Harnessing The Sun To Build The First Energy Grid In Space

Our daily lives are based on and enriched by space, regardless of who we are. So providing more power ultimately enriches humanity.