I have fallen so far out of interest in anything related to Mars. It’s a big dumb red rock. Maybe it has oil that big corps can also exploit, yippie. We have so many problems here and now. Many of their solutions seem so simple, we just lack decent leaders. Mars is just pointless.
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I agree. It makes much more sense to colonize the Moon first. The challenges are almost the same: A lot of radiation and an environment that is hostile to (human) life. Whatever we develop to live there will also enable us to live on Mars but it's much more convenient and cheaper to start on the Moon.
Also: When we get the ability to terraform Mars we can use that to terraform Earth too!
Amen, let's make sure we can live sustainably on Earth before we start carving up other whole planets
I'm sick of hearing Musk's plans for it, those will never pan out. But humans are probably destined to leave Earth and spread out someday - that I still think will happen, and is worth considering.
I would be okay with it. if he would leave on the first ship
I am all for the news about Mars, as long as it has nothing to do with Husk. If that fucker wants to go, he can take his groupies and go. Well, I would also tune into the news if it turned into a pseudo-Last Recall story and some alien artifact collapsed the exploitive oxygen trade.