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This is the reason I support Elon's idea of having a colony on mars to reduce the risk of human extinction. Any incoming missile to mars from earth would easily

by frontman1988 4y ago

This is the reason I support Elon's idea of having a colony on mars to reduce the risk of human extinction. Any incoming missile to mars from earth would easily get noticed and deflected or blown in space itself. It's not a question of if, but when that some maniac finally presses the nuke button here on earth with no country interested in nuclear disarmament and ever increasing geopolitical tensions with mad dictators increasingly gaining power. A Mars colony will atleast increase our odds of survival, hope it happens in my lifetime.

bmitc 4y ago
Elon Musk is the embodiment of human fault. And a colony on Mars, if even remotely possible any time soon, will solve nothing. His selling of it is just that, a sales pitch and a medium for his ego.
- EdwardDiego 4y ago
  It's the billionaire conceit of buying land and (allegedly) installing bunkers in New Zealand to survive whatever they think is coming, but taken to even more deluded extremes.
  - Ekaros 4y ago
    The key fact is that bunker in New Zealand is likely survivable thing in long term. Not nice(having to actual work and not having modern products available), but survivable. We aren't anywhere close that with Mars. There seems to be some immense blindness just how hard and fragile living on Mars would be. For decades at the minimum but probably for centuries more likely.
    - EdwardDiego 4y ago
      Maybe there's a method to Musk's madness... ...if the world (well, tbh, it'll be mostly the Northern Hemisphere, but it's still going to screw everyone in some manner) ends in ashes, those bunkers aren't going to be as effective at sheltering from regular people as Thiel et al think. If you're hiding out on Mars, the peons would at least have to build a rocket to get to you when they decided to eat the rich.
    - rlt 4y ago
      > probably for centuries more likely So… we should start trying as soon as possible.

bmitc 4y ago

Elon Musk is the embodiment of human fault. And a colony on Mars, if even remotely possible any time soon, will solve nothing. His selling of it is just that, a sales pitch and a medium for his ego.

EdwardDiego 4y ago
It's the billionaire conceit of buying land and (allegedly) installing bunkers in New Zealand to survive whatever they think is coming, but taken to even more deluded extremes.
- Ekaros 4y ago
  The key fact is that bunker in New Zealand is likely survivable thing in long term. Not nice(having to actual work and not having modern products available), but survivable. We aren't anywhere close that with Mars. There seems to be some immense blindness just how hard and fragile living on Mars would be. For decades at the minimum but probably for centuries more likely.
  - EdwardDiego 4y ago
    Maybe there's a method to Musk's madness... ...if the world (well, tbh, it'll be mostly the Northern Hemisphere, but it's still going to screw everyone in some manner) ends in ashes, those bunkers aren't going to be as effective at sheltering from regular people as Thiel et al think. If you're hiding out on Mars, the peons would at least have to build a rocket to get to you when they decided to eat the rich.
  - rlt 4y ago
    > probably for centuries more likely So… we should start trying as soon as possible.