He/Him Designer & cinematic illustrator. ‘Unelectable’ is my Industrial music project. At this point in my life, I’m pretty rabidly anti-capitalist. NO AI. https://sethrutledge.com
Seth Rutledge
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I can see a colony of 500-1000 people being established. The cost would be astronomical, but within "reason". I don't see it being flooded with further settlers in a meaningful and supportable way.
So, after a colony is founded - What do they have that is valuable enough to send trade ships and support? What are they exporting that makes anyone want to show up?
Avatar creates magical artifacts that are so valuable that they justify effort - but how the fuck did they figure out whale brains give people immortality? No one would greenlight the decades of research needed to MAYBE find something that valuable.
If we assumed a direct equivalence in functionality from the colonization of the USA to outer space - The USA HAS benefited from massive immigration, and has only grown to 340 million people in 250 years. Canada is right next door and only a 1/10th that, in a world with transport time in HOURS.
If you're looking at the start of an interstellar diaspora, the conditions are vastly different. There is no infrastructure, no local support upon arrival, and no pre-built transportation system to use.
The only "realistic" answer I can think of is military bases to fight an existential threat, or by the will of an absolute dictator that doesn't care about profit and sees expansion as a reason in and of itself.
If you assume funding and support would come in the same way as it did in the 1500s - Well, the amounts you could export from a colony would be so trivial at first as to be essentially NOTHING to even today's VC interests.
Continuing from yesterday: The largest movement of people (I believe) in the 21st century are Ukrainians fleeing the war...which is estimated about 5 million people...but many fled by land, to well-established neighbouring countries with infrastructure.
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This is "Political" Unelectable, not "Sci-Fi" Unelectable.
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While every House had multiple drivers, it was acceptable for Lords to own and operate their own, smaller craft for business or pleasure-related trips. Women, of course, were not generally believed temperamentally equipped to pilot.
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