In *A City On Mars,* biologist #KellyWeinersmith and cartoonist @ZachWeinersmith set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they discovered that humans aren't going to be settling space for a *very* long time, and so they wrote a book about that instead:
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@pluralistic @ZachWeinersmith Lots of space anthropologists, architects and scientists also fully cognizant of this fact, despite the spacebros insistance that it's round the corner.
There's *lots* of interesting work towards that goal, and lots of immediate steps to be taken in various fields.
@davoloid @pluralistic @ZachWeinersmith
Realistically 99.9...9% of us wouldn't get a look in even if we wanted to take the risk. So acknowledging the vast amount of work to be done makes it _more_ interesting for normal people - we have a much higher chance of being involved in the really interesting - for so many fields - work that can happen in the near future.