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TED Day One: Mars Isn't a Good Backup Plan for Humanity

• Gustomaximus 12y ago
  > “For anyone to tell you Mars will be there to back up humanity is like the captain of the Titanic telling you that the real party is happening later on the life boats,” Walkowicz said. “It is hubris to believe that interplanetary colonization will be enough to save us from ourselves.” I cant buy this. Life boats are there for an emergency, and to continue with the Titanic example, these lifeboats helped a bunch of people and hindsight says we should have had a bunch more.