The Pitfalls of Arrogance

An unpleasant encounter with a critic, and how we can learn better argumentation from it.

There are plenty of people who criticise the concept of space colonisation. Some are more reasonable than others. Often, unfortunately, a lot of critics are aggressive, ill-informed and unpleasant. I have locked horns with one such person recently.

Philip Ball wrote a scathing attack on the concept of space colonisation in the Guardian, and I in turn pic…