Space Habitats (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Why Space Habitats Aren't a Good Idea
An acre of space station is going to cost you many billions of dollars compared to maybe a thousand for some existing woodlands. There's also the issue that Earth doesn't have enough space, especially if you want redundancy. Space habitats avoid these unexpected changes because we can keep a space habitat's climate exactly as we want or change it when we want. We mustn't romanticize Darwinism like some X-Men comic book villain like Apocalypse, nature isn't really picking and choosing for ever better life.
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