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Get as many people as excited about the prospect of living in Antarctica (or wherever you'd like) as Mars, and then you can see about those benefits. Maybe you
by thaumaturgy 12y ago
Get as many people as excited about the prospect of living in Antarctica (or wherever you'd like) as Mars, and then you can see about those benefits.
Maybe you can even suggest it to Musk. "Mr. Musk, I disagree that Mars is exciting. Please stop building rockets, and start looking into colonizing something safer here on Earth. Thank you."
- dalke 12y agoThat's a very different argument. That's "we will colonize Mars because it's our dream", not "we will colonize Mars because the benefits in technology payoff are worth it." People climb Everest because it's their dream, because the intangibles are worth the tens of thousands of dollars to them. Chile and Argentina subsidize their colonies on Antarctica because of dreams of land. But even Denmark hasn't figured out how to make Greenland profitable. It continues to subsidize life on that island. That's about 60,000 people who would love to be self-sufficient. Is the problem only that they are insufficiently excited? Or that there aren't enough people there? How many more do you need?