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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps
This has never made any sense to me. Sure I'm all for exploring other planets just to see what we find, but to do it because we are going to colonize it because earth is fucked? C'mon man!
Would it not be 10000000x easier and cheaper to not let earth become like mars than trying to make mars be like earth? Let's say we plan to terraform mars... couldn't we just terraform terra? Or let's say we will just live in bubbles on mars or something.... still easier to build the bubbles here when we turn this one uninhabitable. Also mars is not far enough away to save us from the big stuff like the sun going red giant.  |
That type of colonization is a long ways away. It will be scientists first and for many years. Who knows what type of discoveries await us on Mars. We could find the cure for cancer (or COVID lol). It's also a stepping stone for future advancements.
Was mankind really meant to just live and die on Earth? We are naturally curious and wanting to learn and expand, and in no reality will the human race ever come together to make the changes to save our planet. It.Just.Wont.Happen.
Every discovery/invention/advancement has to start somewhere, and they all have had their critics, but without the few crazies going against the masses we wouldn't be where we are today. For all we know in 100 years our children's children could see people leaving this solar system to live on another planet like Earth, and its all because some billionaire asshat launched himself into space on a penis rocket and inspired some 5 yr old genius-to-be that grows up to solve FTL space travel.