
Space Policy Edition: The Tricky Ethics of Space Settlement
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Are You Trying to Succeed in Space?
The intense deprivation that will be omnipresent, at least at the beginning, fundamentally seems to change and challenge this very notion of this romantic exploration ideal. And yet people do it anyway. Part of the problem is likely that we were raised on stories of the Wild Wild West with the mythology of settler colonialism being a great thing. So we're raised on that view of what actual colonization was like on Earth.
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