To me it is a really stupid idea to try to colonize other planets before we figure out how to do space colonies.
But it's harmless, and as the writer said an interesting thought experiment, to propose possibilities. From TFA:
[It's] an exercise in imagination rather than something we're likely to do in the near term. I don't expect people will be building cities on Venus, at least probably not in this century.
I never heard of Slashdot or CmdrTaco before this story, but a quick read of his forum makes it pretty clear the guy was already worn out from the workload of maintaining the site. He would have walked away sooner or later.
- Post from an alternate history, 1998, where a new tech site caught the attention of corporate lawyers
Funny scene *mocking* faux-tech in bad movies: in the opening montage of the TV pilot for Heat Vision and Jack, Jack Black types on an clunky terminal that displays the requisite status message: "ACCESSING MAINFRAME". He's "hacking in" we can only assume...
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To me it is a really stupid idea to try to colonize other planets before we figure out how to do space colonies.
But it's harmless, and as the writer said an interesting thought experiment, to propose possibilities. From TFA:
[It's] an exercise in imagination rather than something we're likely to do in the near term. I don't expect people will be building cities on Venus, at least probably not in this century.
Funny scene *mocking* faux-tech in bad movies: in the opening montage of the TV pilot for Heat Vision and Jack, Jack Black types on an clunky terminal that displays the requisite status message: "ACCESSING MAINFRAME". He's "hacking in" we can only assume...
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http://www.weeklyscript.com/Heat%20Vision%20&%20J