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I don't buy the "we will live on mars soon" stuff, amirite?
by johnssteve1 week ago
Nobody buys that. It's why it's considered science FICTION
by Cschimmel1 week ago
it's considered science FICTION Billionaires: "Oh look, they still believe we're not secretly investing some of our money into cryogenics and advanced rocket science lol"
by JuniorExtension1 week ago
John Carter Lives On Mars's. Martian Man Hunter Lives On Mars. But those are fictional scenarios .
by Anonymous1 week ago
But I buy science fiction the most
by Anonymous1 week ago
People are optimistic for the wrong reason
by johnssteve1 week ago
People are optimistic that it will happen SOME DAY. Nobody believes it will happen any time soon and anyone that says otherwise is trying to sell you something
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yes you're crazy
by Anonymous1 week ago
That guy is the CEO of one of the largest aviation company. It's not just some random dude. Go read up the Secret Space Program by Michael Salla. Lots of info and evidence.
by Anonymous1 week ago
But he is though. Elon is just a man sitting his room at night angry with the internet too.
by Individual_Cake_41961 week ago
Elon Musk single handedly destroyed the illusion that CEOs are intelligent people.
by Anonymous1 week ago
" in general so that we can always be around to solve problems...." To solve problems that we've created, of course. We're a failed species and the sooner we're gone, the better. Can you imagine what a perfect place Earth would still be if we had never soiled it with our presence?
by Anonymous1 week ago
We are still toddlers on the universal civilization timeline. Cut us some slack. We just learned to fly like 120 years ago. We have come a long way fast. Any animal would put itself though the paces when it tries to shed its basic survival instincts and evolve into a highly intelligent, specialized civilization. I guarantee any superior alien race would look at us and go, "Ahh remember those days?...When we didn't know what we were doing yet."
by Winfieldbauch1 week ago
Can you imagine what a perfect place Earth would still be if we had never soiled it with our presence? Perfect for what? Without us around, nobody would even be able to make a judgement like this. Your point is self-defeating.
by Moorewilla1 week ago
You don't value the meta virtue and light of human consciousness, do you?
by Anonymous1 week ago
1940 people were probably saying the same things about landing on the moon and then 30 years later it happend. Actually making the whole Mars habitable will take ages. But putting a few humans on Mars and letting them live their for a while will most likley happen in our life time.
by Anonymous1 week ago
The likelihood we'll inhabit another planet is at least 1000 years away if we're lucky.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Nah, not that far off. Give it a 100 years and we will probably have a base on Mars, or at the very least the Moon.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Remindme! [100 years]
by Anonymous1 week ago
We don't deserve another planet
by Weird_Cycle1 week ago
You are right. We are humans and we only deserve Earth. It's basically paradise and we developed along with it. It's the only way a civilization can thrive.
by Anonymous1 week ago
"We" not us but not you.
by Commercial-Party1 week ago
That gives me hope
by johnssteve1 week ago
Like with many things it won't happen, not in our lifetime nor pur kids' lifetime. We can't even fully perfect green energy, and they think we're going to be living on Mars? They're still barely getting autonomous rovers to cover Mars. The time it takes to get there is 9 months.....9 months one way. So that means for anyone to even attempt to go there to start building a colony, you're talking about people who would no doubt be away from their families for at least a few years. And that's if they don't run into any snags which we all know there will be. Nobody is going to do that, it's too much to ask of someone who isn't single, has zero family and no life.
by Anonymous1 week ago
someone who isn't single, has zero family and no life. Three finger salute: I volunteer as tribute.
by Sfeil1 week ago
It's far more feasible financially and logistically to just make Earth a better place to live. There is nothing on Mars for us.
by jonbarrows1 week ago
What makes you think we aren't already?
by Willa541 week ago
Last I heard, that's a one way experiment. Anyone thinking humans are just going to migrate to Mars en masse has the brain of a ham sandwich, and is likely a total population of 12 people.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Best wishes.
by Willa541 week ago
Absolutely no one says we don't need earth for long
by Prestigious_Cod1 week ago
Space missions have way more different benefits then just being rich mans adrenaline
by Anonymous1 week ago
I don't think the goal is terraforming Mars, at least short-term. We want a settlement there.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Even that takes more effort than solving current global warming issues.
by johnssteve1 week ago
I think what they are saying is that it ain't happening
by Anonymous1 week ago
It will 100% happen given enough time.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Keep telling yourself that
by Anonymous1 week ago
Not even in a million years?
by Anonymous1 week ago
We won't be around in a million years
by Anonymous1 week ago
I mean, NASA has active plans to build a long term research facility on Mars and are running simulations on such a thing as we speak, I don't think a "settlement" is too far flung. Now, terraforming or a massive Sandy Cheeks tree dome type human civilization on Mars? Ehhh, ask my great great Grandchildren and tell me in a seance how that's going.
by Lbeahan1 week ago
Is Mars even a good terraforming candidate if it's even remotely possible?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Scientifically that's extremely challenging given there's no ozone layer to protect us from the harmful solar radiation. Plus there's the logistics problem. At least for now we don't have the technological advancement and progression to start a settlement there even for a short term the success to failure ratio is extremely wise extremely leaning towards failure. For now atleast. Actually moon would be better for a colony. It's really near and aside from the lunar dust the logistical problem isn't as difficult as getting it to Mars.
by Reymundomurray1 week ago
'Soon' is an interesting word to use here. If you're basing the definition of that word on a timeline relative to the human lifespan, then it probably isn't that soon. I don't think that anyone is arguing we'll be able to establish a real permanent settlement there for at least another century+, but we gotta start working out the details at some point. Because it's also true that 'soon' we will all die. Spreading ourselves out is literally the only thing we can possibly do to prevent that from happening, and Mars is naturally going to be destination #1.
by Skyla241 week ago
Do you want double the chance of going extinct or double the chance of surviving
by Prestigious_Cod1 week ago
Terraforming mars is a pipe dream. It would probably be easier to build space stations orbiting some planet.
by Competitive_Neat15891 week ago
Not unpopular. You're right.
by Obvious_Pen1 week ago
Ok we get it, Dr. Tyson!!
by Anonymous1 week ago
I don't think anyone is buying that right now. However I can see the first human Mars landing happening in my lifetime.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Me either
by Quiet-Brush-3601 week ago
Agreed. If we have the tech to colonize another barren planet and make it livable, we 1000% could make Earth livable and far easier. But I also don't think we should limit ourselves to just Earth.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Imo let the billionaires go, hopefully they'll take some of the people who profit off of this planet's destruction and we can finally fix this world without them in our way.
by Anonymous1 week ago
because the people that have control will be dead by then
by Cautious-Athlete1 week ago
broo.. no one is saying you or anyone you know will be invited. It will be for a select few for the first very looong time
by weimannjamaal1 week ago
Yeah. I would never, and I mean never, would voluntarily get into that list.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Considering it would take YEARS to reach mars, a manned mission is still incredibly far away, for various impossible (with current tech) reasons. So i guess i was running off of real old data, not years but 7-9 months.
by Kayliehilll1 week ago
It takes 9 months to reach Mars.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I think its a dream we would be unable to realize for a very long time. The sheer amount of resources to get just a livable atmosphere let alone somehow getting the plant life to have adequate water. Its a difficult problem to solve. The biggest thing trying to start any of this up is the sheer amount of radiation that would be actively destroying even the plants dna. It would just be a very difficult thing to pull off and people wildly underestimate just how miraculous it is we are even here at all
by Vprice1 week ago
My opinion is that manned space travel has its limits, and one day we'll accept that as humans. Like, maybe there are advanced species out there, but space travel just isn't part of their culture.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Think we'd live on the moon first, but what do I know?
by Anonymous1 week ago
In the very unlikely event humanity survives we are eventually going to have to go a lot further than Mars to live. Once the sun is gone, Earth and even a terraformed Mars would be unlivable. Getting to space, though, is going to be a long and arduous process and we're literally in the same stage as when single celled organisms appeared on earth.
by shanie331 week ago
So long as we don't off ourselves via war or depletion of resources, the most likely causes of extinction, technologically we're waaaaaaaaay ahead of the death of the sun deadline for populating elsewhere in the universe.
by Altruistic-Team1 week ago
No one is saying we're going to live on mars soon
by Anonymous1 week ago
it's been said by actual astro physicists before, if the technology to terraform mars existed, you can just use that to fix earth. all this, we're going to mars nonsense is to distract you from the amount of actual garbage private companies have put up in space and for the ego of billionaires that need to be taxed at 90 percent. the solar radiation alone would fry you in a walking cancerous root, the soil on mars isn't fit for growing anything. let's say, you miraculously solve the radiation problem (you won't) you have to deal with the logistics, you would have to bring everything conceivable a person might need, food, water, nitrogens/soil/seeds, plumbing, air, energy production, habit creation. in one ship, the weight alone per person would make it impossible, that and you have a very short window to successfully launch this ship and any other supply ship or else you'll have to wait for 26 months for the next window.
by Suspicious-Result1 week ago
I imagine it'll happen at some point if we don't cause our own complete annihilation. I doubt it'll happen in my lifetime though.
by WritingLate1 week ago
You don't need to terraform Mars to live on it, we can hide in underground bunkers same as here
by Anonymous1 week ago
No matter how bad it gets here, Mars is worse. Almost no amount of ruination on Earth could make it as bad as Mars (even the aftermath of a nuclear war would have better odds for those who survived the bombs themselves). The appeal of Mars is a place away from The Poors like us (well, like me, at least). That's it.
by Penelopeflatley1 week ago
Nor do I. I think it's decades further away than what NASA hopes.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I don't think the idea of living on mars has anything to do with climate change ?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Yeah nobody believes it
by Anonymous1 week ago
who said this was happening soon? we may visit in the next hundred years.
by Cold-Cable-88261 week ago
Has anyone credible actually made that claim?
by idellaschowalte1 week ago
Yeah no thanks. You know they'll charge you half your paycheck for air and gravity
by Anonymous1 week ago
I think the problem here is "soon". It's more a "maybe in 20 generations or so" and calling that "soon" is weird.
by Anonymous1 week ago
And even if it would work. How will it end?Most colonies in human history have ended up seperating. The same would happen Mars at some point.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I honestly think all the mars tech we see, habitats, tesla batteries, boring company its all to make underground cities on earth. Much more likely than Mars to me
by Negative_Impact1 week ago
Deserts, Ice sheets like antarctica, etc. have conditions million times more suitable for human survival than other planets. Makes zero sense to mould other planets for survival.
by Extension-Stuff1 week ago
True thing
by johnssteve1 week ago
:)
by Severe_Ambition_99731 week ago
I love this guy so much.
by johnssteve1 week ago
I say we're at a minimum 250 years from even building a solid station on Mars n then the building of the equipment another 100 then 500 just to start changing Mars another 500 before gets going the another 1000 before helmets can be taken off
by Boyerenos1 week ago
The guy that is trying can't even build a truck properly so I think you are right.
by Fhodkiewicz1 week ago
WTF would we even do to the Earth to make it LESS habitable than Mars.
by Anonymous1 week ago
😂right?
by Anonymous1 week ago
By "we" they mean Elon plus a chosen few.
by NoRide1 week ago
This is the King of all "just because you can do something doesn't mean you should" examples.
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