[quote=“msuggitt, post:13, topic:74669, full:true”]
The list items under “biology” and “space and cosmology” read like all the reasons we actually never will leave Earth in any kind of physically colonizing sense as we’ve come to hope for.[/quote]
I’m sure we’ll colonize the solar system. Interstellar colonization is a LOT harder.
[quote=“msuggitt, post:13, topic:74669, full:true”]
From microbiome incompatibility…[/quote]
Check out Encounter with Tiber by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes. It’s one of the few Science Fiction books I’ve read that covers this.
