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Our migration from this planet is a seductive vision of the future that has been given almost tangible reality by our entertainment industry. We are attracted to the narrative that our primitive progenitors crawled out of the ocean, just as we’ll crawl off our home planet (en masse) some day. I’m not going to claim that this vision is false: how could I know that? But I will point out a few of the unappreciated difficulties with this view. I was completely astonished by the prevalence of the “space” reaction to the inaugural Do the Math post on galactic-scale energy. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Hubble Telescope.
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