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Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w

• trgn 5y ago
  Great video, loved it. Perfect example. Figuring out stuff, doing science, equations, technology stuff, is valuable in and of itself. No word on what is the inherent value of colonizing another planet, why a human would need to be on Mars in the first place. Going to Mars will eventually end up the same fate as going to the Moon. It's a branding effort, the most expensive carnival ride. We'll do it a few times, some young people with a sense of adventure, middle-aged people bored with their families, old people looking for a last hurrah. And once there, only to live in the most bureaucratic, degraded, dependent way possible. In a true anti-state of freedom. It's constructive to think about this in contrast to the explorers of the 15th and 16th century. They discovered paradise. Mountains of gold and silver, perfect weather if you were lucky, freedom (frighteningly raw freedom) from their lords in the old country, grass plains carpeted with red meat, streams overflowing with fish, ... Technology was not a value in and of itself in any of these endeavors. Current discourse around going to Mars, technology _is_ the value.