Dear "Earth", > Mars can wait. I can’t. When you say things this ignorant, it almost makes me want another theia-sized object to slam into you at a relative v

Dear "Earth", > Mars can wait. I can’t. When you say things this ignorant, it almost makes me want another theia-sized object to slam into you at a relative velocity of kilometers per second to teach you a lesson. How many extinction events do you need to witness before you accept the reality that any life that stays on you is doomed in the long term? I'm interested in long term survival more than quick-fixes. I can somewhat appreciate your little short-term viewpoint, but you're completely missing my long-term one. We love you. You're great. I think that the puppies were an especially nice touch. Echidnas are pretty cool, too. And you can absolutely count on me taking bacon with me when I leave. But I'm afraid we are going to have to leave sooner or later. Or did you have some plan for how to stop the sun expanding into its red giant phase and swallowing you whole? Didn't think so. You talk about going to Mars as if we're spending a significant amount of resources on it. I'd like to point you to the relative sizes of every Mars program in existence and the US Navy's toilet paper budget to point out just how ludicrous that idea is. I feel like maybe you should do some more research, and also realise that it's possible for humanity to do more than one thing at a time. Especially if we can reduce that toilet paper budget - those sailors can't be eating that much curry, surely? Mars is awesome. 0.3g will be heaps more fun than this horrible 9.8m/s/s garbage that you force on us. Also that horrible bright thing that's in the sky half the time won't be nearly as bothersome - when I'm walking home from parties at 7am it'll be much more tolerable. Mars is going to give me an extra half hour's sleep-in every single day. How many sleep-ins have you ever given me? Zero. And Mars isn't going to bitch and moan if we pump greenhouse gases into it's atmosphere. In fact, it'll reward us for that by giving itself a nice thick atmosphere that we can then pump oxygen into, and nicer temperatures. Also, Mars never beset us with any rats and floods and poison monkeys, did it? Sounds a whole lot like you've started the fight for survival, but now you want to quit because you're losing! Well I say hard cheese!