Radiation Safe Worlds

In a light-hearted premier, Colony Worlds passed along this morning some basic context and perspective to remind would-be spacefarers of the harsh, unforgiving realities for living awash in myriad kinds of radioactivity beyond the Blue Shore.

And that's just the neighborhood.

First among the worlds said to be available for human colonization, circling our own humble mid-sequence variable star, is Earth's Moon. In the short-term and long-term, however naked she is, we will need to start by taking this pier if we are to set sail beyond. To live on stark and dusty Mars, it follows we must first learn how to live on the Moon. Perhaps to live and work and stay on the Moon we will first have had to live and work and stay in Antarctica, and so on.

"We are known best in hindsight." - Eric Hoffer

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