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A while back, I was reading about one of these billionaires talking about how they'd fly people to Mars, then they could work off their flight and living expenses by working for the company there. I wish I could see the looks on their faces when they find out that company scrip doesn't buy flights back.
I'll take any bet that billionaire you're referring to was Musk himself.
If memory serves, it was Bezos, but it doesn't really matter who at the end of the day.
Also to give the rich an escape route when the ecosystem on this planet goes to shit.
I mean I guess you're alive, but living on Mars sounds terrible.
I don't typically wish undue agony on anyone, but if Musk and the other rich pieces of shit do end up escaping to Mars and leaving humanity to suffer trapped in the wasteland they created, then I genuinely hope that they experience the slowest, most torturous death that space has to offer.
You’re in luck, space has many of those, and they are very easy to achieve.
Well good news. Mars might literally be that.
It's bad. Like way worse than we talk about bad. Mars doesn't have an atmosphere or solar shielding so if you don't want to have a dozen cancers you will want to be be underground. Pretty deep underground. Cause youh will still have high cancer rates and going outside is not gonna let anyone live very long.
Buried under soil that is incredibly toxic, and very sharp and very likely to be an issue to work with.
But that's not the biggest issue cause all of that is engineering. No the issue is the low gravity. It's not that much lower than earth but it's still pretty low and low enough that damage to the body will occur. Muscle and bone degradation and micro clots. Heart will struggle to pump and small clots will build up and move around. They will start with blinding the Mars colonists and then eventually get large enough to cause strokes.
And like this is just the beginning of low gravity issues, potentially fatal pregnancy, never being able to leave the planet after even a few years, and maybe brain swelling.
It's not Earth. It's a planet that hates life. Anyone going there initially is there to die, which is why they so wanted to quickly send people to study to buy their way out of it, but they won't. If they go there, they go to their own hell, which is why they are back on bunkers in new Zealand.
If we can't save the Earth from becoming inhabitable, what chance do we have of making Mars habitable? I doubt we'll even see a self-sustaining colony off planet during our lifetimes. And it'll cost a fortune to supply a colony on Mars, so my guess is that we'll use a lunar colony or a space station to figure out the self-sustaining part before starting a permanent settlement on Mars.
And even then, it would still probably be the toughest kind of living humans have ever experienced.
the only realistic long-term lunar or martian base is underground. Luna has giant lava tubes we can use - on Mars it'll probably just be tunnels, or filled in asteroid craters. there's no way to prevent massive irradiation from cosmic rays or micrometeorite impacts otherwise. it's not as sexy as surface-level bases though so you'll never see it described as such.
not sure what the draw for lunar or martian bases is though, the minerals are far easier to get to in the asteroid belt.
*uninhabitable
We want to be able to inhabit the Earth
That's their illusion, and we should stop it. The worst possible outcome on earth is better than the best possible on Mars. Terraforming Venus is actually a much more likely thing. Musk is a fucking idiot.