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by graham_paul
2135 days ago
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> we start to sustain life there Then you just have WW4 and we all die. Wars have been started for far worthless things (when you compare it to the game changing thing that would be to have a place in Mars), something like Mars would cause a lot of deaths way before humans get there and it would probably remove any motivation to actually fix human-caused problems in Earth because hey, thanks to Musk we can just leave to Mars. All those rich people that are now building bunkers could collectively purchase Mars (whatever that means) and leave Earth when it is beyond repair (right after squashing every resource out of it). I don't think humanity is anywhere ready for it even if the technology was ready right now. Our social systems are fragile and tend to centralization and authoritarian forms of governance |
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No billionaires are going to go to Mars for the lifestyle. Country estates, super yachts, fur coats and Rolexes on one side, and a plastic bubble habitat and nylon jumpsuit in a freezing airless desert on the other. How many of the elite are really going to go for the second? It just seems like fantastical thinking.