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You went false dichotomy on this. I say fad because I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime and I would say 90% it will never happen. But that 10% possibi

by ozim 4mo ago

You went false dichotomy on this. I say fad because I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime and I would say 90% it will never happen. But that 10% possibility of it happening is important or 0.01% of possibility it happens in my lifetime. It is important that people believe it is more than my numbers. It is important to spend money and work towards that goal. Because alternative is much more terrifying.

somenameforme 4mo ago
That I did. Most people don't tend to think probabilistically, and my responses tend to assume that. Heh, kind of ironic. However, I'm quite curious of something. I don't understand how one can think Martian colonization would never happen. We went from horses (for most at least) to putting a man on the Moon in about 60 years, and that's it? Or are you implying that you think Mars may be less desirable than other targets for colonization? Almost regardless of what motivation you put forward for people - greed, curiosity, adventure, desperation, or whatever else you can imagine - it ends up with us expanding beyond Earth. The only way this might not be true is if it's somehow literally impossible, but the ISS is already an unstable hellish nightmare relative to Mars, and people survive there just fine for years at a time.