Another awesome article! This is an obvious and necessary next step for humans, to figure out the challenges of getting off the planet and to survive out there - at scale. The natural resources available amongst the asteroids alone is immense and will fuel benefits here on Earth as well as provide for further expansion throughout the solar system and beyond. There are always challenges but it is short-sighted to just complain and give up. All problems worth tackling are hard.

By the way - I’m glad you write long articles - makes me feel better about some of mine.

I also wrote about leaving the cradle, in a way - about modern humans leaving Southern Africa to spread around the world and lead to the modern races we know and love today. The story is actually about the science, of how we found that out. Check it out here: https://medium.com/predict/dating-eve-with-mitochondrial-dna-77c94e6c0860