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Lumifer comments on Improving long-run civilisational robustness - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 11 May 2016 11:40:56AM 3 points [-]

What about some other kind of station?

Comment author: Lumifer 12 May 2016 05:50:18PM 3 points [-]

An underwater city can be both self-sustaining and very well isolated from whatever ravages the surface of the Earth. Much cheaper and easier to build than an equivalently large space station, too.