"...we don't inhabit the oceans."
They are much more accessible, hospitable, and have more resources, but we use them only for highways, not homes. The same could be said for the polar regions and even the great deserts.
As much as I would like to see humanity become a spacefaring society spreading across the Galaxy (or at the very least, fully exploiting the solar system), I don't think it's going to happen. Unless our propulsion technology leaps forward by several orders of magnitude, we're stuck here except for the occasional exploratory mission or temporary colony.
Even an extremely valuable reasource discovery there would probably only result in the bare minimum settlement needed to develop it, like an offshore oil rig or a polar whaling station.
Space/Science » in reply to One world or several worlds
You make an excellent point.
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