Confirmed by science: our species is doomed.

[caseymoz]

90. Don't bother? Sounds like sour grapes.

The fact that we don't bother to live in extreme environments does not mean we can not. It means we do not bother because we have elsewhere to live. Take away those other options, and some of us will move there.

Don't bother? You said it yourself. "It's absurdly expensive." That's totally different than not bothering, and you seem unable or unwilling to translate how expense translates to the real world and what it implies for adaptation.

Expensive likely means humans there have to be supported by specialized, massive labor from people in a friendlier environment who make the equipment for which the colony depends. This is not adaptation.

You could only call people adapted to their environment if they are self-sustaining there. This means people have to either support themselves on raw materials available there: they must then perform manufacturing and food production in the hostile environment. There's one alternative: and that's they have to make at least an even trade for the raw materials, food, or manufactured goods.

If they are being subsidized from the surplus of people living in a friendlier environment, to create an environment similar to the friendly one from which they came, then they're not adapted.

If you continue to keep yourself ignorant of these problems and claim humans are adaptive to anyplace, it means you're just emotionally resistant to my point, for reasons other than facts. You're making an argument from exceptionalism, which is as much of a delusion when applied to humankind as a whole as it is when applied to Americans alone.

There's no point in my continuing this conversation. You've made no other arguments except a reiteration of what you already said, which I already refuted. So, goodbye.