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by jwells89 971 days ago
It’s not an either/or choice, we should do both, if only because learnings from performing planetary engineering on Mars will benefit similar efforts on Earth, but also because there’s no point in pigeonholing ourselves into a single planet. We’re cavepeople to Earth’s metaphorical cave and it would be wise to venture beyond it to become a true spacefaring civilization.
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I wish I had more upvotes to give you.

We have the people and resources to to this, and the payoff is literally astronomical.

A big question would be how to divvy everything up.