5 points gnabgib 1 hour ago 4 comments
hexapus 41 minutes ago | parent
Yet another reason that Mars colonisation is such a distant and stupid pipedream. I'm not saying humanity shouldn't strive to continue exploring, but if we can't live sustainably on the one habitable planet we already have, the idea of expanding to one that's objectively hostile as some sort of backup plan is pure delusion. Musk isn't a dreamer - he's a con man.
MiroslavPokorny 29 minutes ago | parent
Almost nobody stays over the winter in Antartica because its horrible and cold. Given Mars is significantly more hostile, what chance has anyone got in surviving there and remaining sane and well ?
ceejayoz 11 minutes ago | parent
No one's allowed to put down roots in Antarctica; colonization is explicitly forbidden by treaty.
A couple thousand people live in Svalbard, though.
rayiner 24 minutes ago | parent
The notion that we need to achieve utopia here before moving forward is so toxic. If people in the past had thought that way, we'd still be trying to make the perfect village in Africa.
"Humanity" isn't a preschool classroom where we all hold hands and do one thing at a time like the teacher says. It's fine for some people to be working towards the future while others are trying to fix things in the present.