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There's 7 billion human brains on earth. We can spare a couple to focus on making our species multi-planetary while the rest deal with cleaning up the mess at h

There's 7 billion human brains on earth. We can spare a couple to focus on making our species multi-planetary while the rest deal with cleaning up the mess at home. It's unreasonable to expect the entire human race to stop what they're doing and focus on one issue.

dragontamer 5y ago
Its unreasonable to expect any progress in transforming Mars to happen within our lifetime.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
  ...and Rome wasn't built in a day, what's your point? Just because we won't see tangible results in our lifetime doesn't mean the effort, lessons learned and thought energy in that direction is meaningless.
  - dragontamer 5y ago
    Trying to live on Mars is meaningless. All effort put towards it is complete, and utter waste. As I said in other comments, feel free to waste your resources on the project. But if you're trying to convince others that the project is useful or fruitful (and ask for other people's resources or help on the matter), then be prepared for some resistance.
imtringued 5y ago
There is no meaningful difference between surviving extreme conditions on mars and extreme conditions on earth. The only difference is that the number of people that can live in extreme conditions is much smaller than the number that can live in normal conditions. Fighting against climate change is purely about making sure that the earth can maintain 7 billion + humans. Any mars colonization program will not progress fast enough to let 7 billion humans inhabit mars within the next 200 years. >It's unreasonable to expect the entire human race to stop what they're doing and focus on one issue. Nobody said "stop what they're doing" except you. But the usual argument is that Elon Musk is accelerating the progress toward mars colonization and accelerating that progress simply isn't needed because of time constraints that no amount of money can solve. It will take decades no matter what a conman tells you.

dragontamer 5y ago

Its unreasonable to expect any progress in transforming Mars to happen within our lifetime.

halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
...and Rome wasn't built in a day, what's your point? Just because we won't see tangible results in our lifetime doesn't mean the effort, lessons learned and thought energy in that direction is meaningless.
- dragontamer 5y ago
  Trying to live on Mars is meaningless. All effort put towards it is complete, and utter waste. As I said in other comments, feel free to waste your resources on the project. But if you're trying to convince others that the project is useful or fruitful (and ask for other people's resources or help on the matter), then be prepared for some resistance.

imtringued 5y ago

There is no meaningful difference between surviving extreme conditions on mars and extreme conditions on earth. The only difference is that the number of people that can live in extreme conditions is much smaller than the number that can live in normal conditions. Fighting against climate change is purely about making sure that the earth can maintain 7 billion + humans. Any mars colonization program will not progress fast enough to let 7 billion humans inhabit mars within the next 200 years. >It's unreasonable to expect the entire human race to stop what they're doing and focus on one issue. Nobody said "stop what they're doing" except you. But the usual argument is that Elon Musk is accelerating the progress toward mars colonization and accelerating that progress simply isn't needed because of time constraints that no amount of money can solve. It will take decades no matter what a conman tells you.