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by jiggawatts 371 days ago
Colonize the… what now? In how long!?

What is that man smoking and can I have some?

Five years wouldn’t be enough time to “colonise” Antarctica, let alone another planet (just one!), and certainly not anything at a larger scale, even if we were visited by aliens tomorrow and they gifted us five hundred spaceships to give us a boost.