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It seems to me that most of the negative attitudes towards this project stem from the idea that we're going to colonise Mars with 2017 technology and ideas. Th
by randomsearch 9y ago
It seems to me that most of the negative attitudes towards this project stem from the idea that we're going to colonise Mars with 2017 technology and ideas.
That's the hard thing about reasoning about the future: by definition it doesn't look like the present, but you're a product of the present.
Many people talk about terraforming as taking "thousands of years". Go back a few thousand years and tell someone how you travelled to the other side of the earth in less than a day.
Genetic engineering. AI. Nanotech. Quantum Computers. And that's just the next 100 years.
Ain't no way we're gonna have to wait that long to build sandcastles on Mars.
- nxsynonym 9y agoThis is why the world needs dreamers like Musk. Nobody could have predicted the huge technological advances we've made in the last 100 years, let alone the speed at which they were developed. If we just keep brushing ideas like this off as "totally impractical right now" then there's no goal to work towards. It's no secret the our time on Earth is limited, and becoming more limited as the human race expands and evolves. It really comes down to weather or not you believe the human race is capable of existing outside of Earth. I am in the camp of "we'll figure it out" just like we have up to this point. My fear is that most people fall into the "I'll die before it happens so why bother thinking about it" camp.
- rmah 9y agoLol, as if Musk is the first to dream of colonizing space. Please.