who cares about space colonies tbh why dont we focus on colonising the ocean 🐳🐬🐟🐠🐡🐙🐚🐌🐋
@Efi haha, just recolour all the black space blue and it should work!;!! nobidy will be any the wiser
@roadrunner this is an excellent idea. We witches should claim the ocean as our rightful home 🏡 🌊💙✨🙏
@roadrunner we are all Atlanteans
@roadrunner
Who cares about colonising…
@roadrunner bc ocean is scarier than space
1) no new resources, or at least not on the scale available off earth
2) actually harder than space in some ways
3) can ocean colonies be made self-sustaining? Like, could you have a submarine steel foundry? I suspect this would be *extremely* difficult.
That said, it *will* be a problem if space colonies are capitalism-based.
We should do more ocean colonization, yes... but it doesn't achieve the same goals as space colonization.
(cc: @Ulfra_Wolfe )
@woozle @Ulfra_Wolfe this was intended as more of a jokey "i wanna hang out with some fish" toot than a serious proposal but tty for the info, interesting stuff to think about
@roadrunner @Ulfra_Wolfe I approve of hanging out with fish, ocean colonization in general. ^.^
Even if it wasn't serious, tho, it's something I've thought about over the years... a friend of my dad's who is/was heavily involved with diving research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Bennett) often argued seriously for what you were suggesting; he saw space-ex as a waste of resources.
I'm sure he had some good reasons, too. It's... still worth serious thought.
@woozle @roadrunner @Ulfra_Wolfe on the plus side, the price of getting resources to an undersea colony is just "tie an anchor to it"
@jk @roadrunner @Ulfra_Wolfe Yes -- much easier to keep a dependent outpost supplied under the sea than in space.
@woozle @Ulfra_Wolfe i think ocean exploration is more interesting/intriguing to me personally bc of all the undiscovered species and stuff!! maybe its best we leave them alone tho rather than ruining their habitats etc
@roadrunner @Ulfra_Wolfe That's precisely why any capitalism-driven exploration / colonization becomes a problem. There's too much incentive to do things that will massively destroy what should be part of our common wealth, in pursuit of private hoarding.
@woozle @roadrunner @Ulfra_Wolfe Oh I'd love to live in the ocean :3
@LottieVixen @roadrunner @Ulfra_Wolfe
<cues up "Octopus's Garden" on the turntable>
@roadrunner .................................We already trashed Earth. let's leave the oceans alone and trash some barren planet. I'm sure the whales and other sea life would agree.
Besides... the sea critters have already colonized the sea.
@Maverynthia thats fair
@roadrunner HEY =(
I'll change my game to be about ocean colonies after I'm done so you get two games, ok?