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Space colonization may seem like something out of science fiction, but this Kurzgesagt explains how we can actually begin colonizing the moon today. The process would take place in three stages, moving from very temporary landing pads to more permanent colonies. What this video does not ask, however, is whether we should colonize space. As C.S. Lewis wrote in his Space Trilogy, the desire to spread human civilization is “the idea that humanity, having now sufficiently corrupted the planet where it arose, must at all costs contrive to seed itself over a larger area: that the vast astronomical distances which are God’s quarantine regulations, must somehow be overcome.”

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