I legitimately don't believe human beings will ever live on Mars. I don't understand why we care so much about space when we have so many issues and things we don't understand about Earth.
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They finally figured out they can’t kill enough of us so "any place has got to better then this planet full of retards"
The idea of humans colonizing Mars at any point in our lifetime is fool's errand. The cost to benefit ratio alone makes it an absurd proposition. I don't think people really understand how incompatible Mars is with human life, or the ginormous expense of keeping humans alive would be on a longterm basis. It would cost exponentially less money to simply fix the problems here on earth, which is a veritable utopia when it comes to supporting and sustaining human life. We were literally born to exist here. At some point, reality is going to obliterate the boondoggle that is the Mars colonization fantasy.
Still need to see humans get past the radiation belt.
Sea steading seems like a far more interesting challenge & even that is an extremely difficult problem.
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Having so many issues here on Earth is actually a pretty good reason to expand civilization to Mars.
At least then, if the people on Earth don't get their shit together, the long-term fate of humanity won't depend only on them.
Having a backup copy of consciousness saved to another planet is not the worst idea.
If we haven't finished exploring all the oceans first, then why should we be focused on exploring Mars?