I heard about it on one of Isaac Arthur's videos. I can't remember which one, but the analogy he used was that earth's magnetosphere is essentially a big motor created by earth's metal core spinning. (Oversimplified) So you should be able to build a motor that would shield a station
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You can make a radiation field by running a large motor that would save you from the solar radiation.
In space you always have access to the sun. A cheap form of power. You need a lot more batteries if you're on the planet.
Venus is a much better idea over mars.
In order to colonize mars, having a good space station in orbit would help out immensely. We're talking big enough to stretch out and hold a few hundred people.
The station would need to grow crops and have minor but flexible manufacturing.
At that point, why would you colonize mars vs just make more stations?
I watched TNG with my daughter. Every time there was a trans episode we felt a little cringe. Expecting a show from the early 90s to have horrible takes, but every time, they did well. Our cringe was misplaced
I find the fediverse has a much nicer feeling about it. At least the instances I've seen.
I scrolled a bit on Reddit yesterday and I immediately saw how negative it was in comparison
It's just eugenics.
Hot take: the philosophy behind eugenics isn't bad.
Real life take: it's impossible to implement without increasing inequality
So yes, I think the federation was right to do that. One of the things they show is that all these cultures are different, but the individual is largely the same. Humans aren't much different from Vulcans, Klingons or ferengi.
But that's also why this is good sci-fi. Because it's supposed to make us think about issues that aren't black and white.
'it appears that we've lost all sexual attraction'
You could have resources from asteroids. There's lots of options out there