Waaah trying to fix the environment is too hard.
It's easier to simply create a new home on a world without air, water, food or energy millions of miles away.
I know if human civilisation survives more than a million years here on earth then yeah eventually we'll have to leave, but leaving now??? So shitty.
Even if nuclear war and complete climate catastrophe happens on Earth it'd still be more habitable than fucking Mars
Why Mars? There's another planet in our solar system that's even closer and has a breathable atmosphere, a protective magnetosphere and temperatures mostly tolerable by humans. We could try to fix that place that place up first, seems like it'd be a less of a hassle
Since clearly the Earth is done for, how do you propose thinning the atmosphere of Venus?
Live in a balloon filled with breathable air.
Seriously at the altitude at which the atmosphere of Venus is 1 atm temperatures are around 40 °C and there's winds that circle the planet every 100 hours.
Mars for the privileged
Earth for the poor
Mars/Moon/Culture Orbitals are fun and cool, but they're not solutions, they're hobbies. It's shit we do for fun while building Socialism, which will have the eventual nice side effect, several centuries down the line, of reducing our resource footprint on this planet to near zero.
It's not going to bail us out of our problems, Space Solar power and mirrors might help and having some infrastructure, even some asteroid mining, is a good idea, but it's no substitute for the hard work we need to do here.
I'd love for those people to actually fuck off to Mars. Living there is just incredibly hard, harder than living on Earth even in worst worst worst-case climate change and pollution scenarios.
How about we trick millionaires into thinking Mars is better than Earth? A reverse Psychology Elysium?
Also, humans should be forced to stay on earth.
Pulling a page from Three Body Problem / The Expanse, I'd argue that any civilization that exists outside Earth for multiple generations is functionally no longer human.
It's almost like they never played bioshock or red faction. Marscucks confirmed for fake gamers.
Or Doom. I, for one, don't want to be there when Musk's transdimensional experiments go wrong
Musk is a complete jackass pulling a hell of a PR move and these idiots are falling for it lmfao. He doesn't want Mars, he wants to own space flight, that's a business and he wants to monopolize it.
I hope Musk's spacecraft burns during reentry, in Kerbal Space Program ofc.
He doesn’t want Mars, he wants to own space flight, that’s a business and he wants to monopolize it.
We're long past the point at which dominating a US industry grants you global monopoly. But I can absolutely see Musk patent trolling his way to trillionaire status inside his own lifetime.
Whether that trillion will be worth anything by the time it prints is another question, though.
I wish they did move to Mars and had to live as a serf on Elon Musk's fucked up version of Rapture
What if instead of spending billions of dollars to go to Mars, we just had healthcare?
