[gooseus]

If only Elon was actually advancing actual humanity, and not just his own narrow idea of what humanity should be.

Also, trying to establish a self-sustaining base on Mars right now is short-sighted and a tremendous waste of energy and material.

Also also, how you do a thing is (often) as important as doing the thing itself, we're still suffering the consequences of last centuries megalomaniacal claims to be advancing humanity at the expense of a few people.

And just in case someone mentions something like D-Day, I doubt any of Elon's workers signed on to sacrifice their bodies to "save humanity" in the same way the Allies signed up (or consented to be drafted) to save Europe.

[easyThrowaway]

Also, if a manned mission to mars goes awry with a catastrophic failure due to cutting corners and carelessness Oceangate-style, we will probably see a massive slowdown and cut funding in space exploration in the future due to the bad publicity.

[avgcorrection]

> And just in case someone mentions something like D-Day,

Did you mean the Eastern Front?

[gooseus]

Yeah, that too, probably what I'd have said if I was typing in Cyrillic.

[avgcorrection]

But I’m not typing in Cyrilic.