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i think youre putting the cart before the horse here. there is no possibility of a Mars colony without this work happening on earth.
by rrix2 5y ago
i think youre putting the cart before the horse here. there is no possibility of a Mars colony without this work happening on earth.
- dahfizz 5y ago>> obviously the missions will be tested on earth before we yeet billions of dollars to another planet and hope it all works. That's my whole point. This work is only interesting as a precursor to doing it on another planet. Nobody has any motivation to do the work and spend the money without a direct connection to transferring it to another planet. Whenever someone says "why don't we just do it on earth first??". We will: but only as the testing phase of an actual mars colony mission.
- walleeee 5y agowere we not actively making this planet more difficult to live on I would be a bit more likely to agree but even so there seems to be plenty of motivation do we not want to be resilient to e.g. solar flares, supervolcanoes, asteroid impacts/nukes/tungsten rods dropped from orbit, on Earth or Mars or anywhere