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I always thought these were projects to get people to spend money for the ability to just live on earth in the future. We cant say "hey we're breaking shit need
by sambull 7y ago
I always thought these were projects to get people to spend money for the ability to just live on earth in the future. We cant say "hey we're breaking shit need to figure out how to survive with a broken climate". I know this is Elons take, everything he does for space is almost always applicable to living on hostile environment locally from energy production/storage to tunnels.
- ksaj 7y agoAt what point do we decide that living on Mars is more hospitable and simpler than living on Earth? In what state would the Earth need to be for this to happen?
- AstralStorm 7y agoVery hot and cloudy, and/or blocking lots of sun. That would do a number on edible plants, farm animals and power supply. Alternatively, if we run out of arable land and don't develop hydroponics enough.
- yters 7y agoIt seems colonizing mars would still be much, much more difficult than addressing the change in climate on earth.
- ksaj 7y agoPrecisely the direction of my questioning. It seems absurd to me that people today think its more important to get humans on Mars and drastically modify its environment than it is to clean and maintain our own. If we are to believe that Mars once had water and might have been more hospitable to life, then we also must see the irony in trying to groom it so we can leave a future Earth as it starts to look more and more like Mars, instead of getting our act together here and now, and not letting Earth become another Mars.
- ksaj 7y agoI'm assuming there is no usable fertilizer in Mars "soil" right now, and certainly a lack of the symbiotic bacteria and other critters we need to grow things that have adapted and evolved for Earthly living conditions. We'll need to bring pretty much everything from scratch.