| Realistically there is going to lot of pain. Just Going to mars is not really multi planetary. The difference of few years when the first attempt takes place is not going to change much. I am talking about a self sustaining significant colony. That is going be realistic probably only after 2150-2200. Climate change and other problems will have huge impact but the humanity isn't going die from it. You are right nobody would want to go mars today to live and work. To be the first sure, further science, unique experience sure, but regular people will have no interest in living there permanently. However in 2150 earth is going to be rough enough that mars or space won't look too bad. The economics will also have low enough by then. My point is that's real goal for life. we can be all eco friendly today, all it will go anyway with one extinction type of event , super volcano/asteroid/earth quake/.. take your pick We need to keep that in mind, sustainability is important but not if we don't become multi planetary. ---- To me it like we are fixing bugs and improving code and efficiency instead of worrying about HA. For uptime that's most important damn thing. Users(humans) care about the bugs and issues (sustainability) , system (life) should be worried about uptime /reliability. That is lot easier with HA. As an engineer I would prioritize developing HA/fail over and DR over fixing the bugs if I had to choose, I would only fix bugs which make the application completly unusable and user leave (die?) Until I have a solid uptime solution |