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There are places on Earth that are probably 3-5 orders of magnitude less terrible than Mars, and we don't even have a reason to colonize those areas. Let alone
by ryandrake 2y ago
There are places on Earth that are probably 3-5 orders of magnitude less terrible than Mars, and we don't even have a reason to colonize those areas. Let alone a cold, barren, lifeless, radiation-covered, nearly atmosphere-less rock.
- bluefirebrand 2y agoOne of the cool things about humanity is that we do stuff that doesn't seem to make much sense, like set sail in a direction without any idea if there is even land out there The reason to colonize Mars is to see if we can For a lot of people that's a sufficient reason And frankly it may be worthwhile because if we can colonize Mars we may be able to colonize a large asteroid full of resources that we need, or something else Or create a chain of fueling station colonies on planets on the way to a new, habitable planet Who knows. But sometimes we just should set sail and see what happens
- nitwit005 2y agoPeople stopped being interested in the moon landings pretty quickly. There's a lot of interest in visiting Mars because it hasn't been done. There are a lot of exploration fans. It'll stop being novel once we've made a few visits.
- bluefirebrand 2y agoI suspect that if there was suddenly a huge effort to put a base on the moon like the ISS and have humans live there part time, people would get pretty excited We stopped being interested in the moon landings because they weren't doing anything new