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But there are people living in the inhospitable deserts that have useful resources like oil. Or artificial resources like legalized gambling. Antarctica is e
by bryanlarsen 2y ago
But there are people living in the inhospitable deserts that have useful resources like oil. Or artificial resources like legalized gambling.
Antarctica is even more inhospitable than deserts, and there are people living there for research purposes.
- colonelspace 2y agoI'm just making the basic point that we have a wealth of much more hospitable places to live on earth, and somehow they're not viable candidates as "backup plans" for humanity. Going a little further, living in the ocean is easier than living on Mars. As far as I can tell there are no billionaire-funded submarine civilisation programs.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThey're not viable candidates as backup plans for humanity because they have the same vulnerabilities to comet strikes, global nuclear war and pandemic as the rest of the Earth. OTOH, if one of those took out human life on Earth, people living on Mars could re-colonize Earth.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoEarth after a global nuclear war or comet strike is still more hospitable than Mars. It's hard to imagine anything that would make Mars a better place to live than simply staying on earth.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoYes it would be. But that doesn't matter if no humans make it through the apocalypse in the first place.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoThe moon would do the job at a lot cheaper price.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoNope. Because of aero braking, Mars takes less delta v to get to and land on than the moon does.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoNow I'm wondering why the Apollo program went to the moon if doing Mars is so much cheaper.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoGoing is cheaper. Coming back is more expensive. And of course the 3-6 month travel time is a challenge.