Comment Re:Doing things in the wrong order (Score 1) 501
To me it is a really stupid idea to try to colonize other planets before we figure out how to do space colonies.
But it's harmless, and as the writer said an interesting thought experiment, to propose possibilities. From TFA:
[It's] an exercise in imagination rather than something we're likely to do in the near term. I don't expect people will be building cities on Venus, at least probably not in this century.
