I truly believe that bazinga billionaires and their sycophantic cultists generally have an unexamined belief, derived from their treats, that just landing on Mars is a “science victory” with a Hans Zimmer BWAAAAAAAAAM treatment and a credit roll that must be done for its own sake.
This is what I tell people. Like even the most climate change addled earth is immensely more habitable for humans than Mars is.
If we solve our problems here… Ya know by ending capitalism… Then we can start doing truly badass humanity spanning achievements. Terra forming mars? Why not give it a go once we’ve got everyone fed and housed here. Surely it’d be a cool project. But as a solution? Entirely foolish.
Also if humanity actually does become interplanetary. What kind of precedent do we set with how we take care of our home planet? It creates a culture of hyperdisposability. Consoom all the resources on one planet, then hop off its carcass to the next.
Then we won’t exactly be “interplanetary” then, just us on one planet we haven’t ruined yet. And I’m saying this while humoring Elons initial delusions.
I’m reading the book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought this Through? Sheesh some things I haven’t considered.
Ruining one planet for the sake of fever dreams of colonizing a dead and poisonous planet.
It’s so gd stupid
What would be easier y’all terraforming Mars or abolishing capitalism and figuring out how to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere
I truly believe that bazinga billionaires and their sycophantic cultists generally have an unexamined belief, derived from their treats, that just landing on Mars is a “science victory” with a Hans Zimmer BWAAAAAAAAAM treatment and a credit roll that must be done for its own sake.
CNSA should land armed taikonauts in secret then ambush the first billionaire landing party for an impromptu interstellar struggle session
This is what I tell people. Like even the most climate change addled earth is immensely more habitable for humans than Mars is.
If we solve our problems here… Ya know by ending capitalism… Then we can start doing truly badass humanity spanning achievements. Terra forming mars? Why not give it a go once we’ve got everyone fed and housed here. Surely it’d be a cool project. But as a solution? Entirely foolish.
Also if humanity actually does become interplanetary. What kind of precedent do we set with how we take care of our home planet? It creates a culture of hyperdisposability. Consoom all the resources on one planet, then hop off its carcass to the next.
Then we won’t exactly be “interplanetary” then, just us on one planet we haven’t ruined yet. And I’m saying this while humoring Elons initial delusions.
Your take is my take and I share it gladly.
Facts. Even God the damn Antarctic or the sahara are more liveable on their worst days
Literally. The Sahara with 50 years of more climate change will be more habitable than 50 years of intensively terra forming the best parts of mars…
And yet the unrealistic thing is simply stopping climate change.
I’m reading the book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought this Through? Sheesh some things I haven’t considered.