One of the things that makes me sad is that it takes huge amount of energy to make something fall into the sun. I wish it was cheaper. It would be nice to play a game of interplanetary darts with Mercury as the bullseye and capitalists as the darts.
There is certainly an argument to be made for expanding. Humanity's chances of continuing to exist for x number of years improve drastically the moment there is a stable, self-sufficient group of humans on a completely different planet. It would mean we can no longer be wiped out by any single planetary catastrophe.
I think Mars is a dead end, though. Someone posted on here a while back about the concept of Venus colonies, up in the upper atmosphere. Those sound awesome, and they lack a few of the problems we'd face trying to colonize Mars.
People talk about "saving humanity by moving to Mars" like the Earth is going to explode in 50 years or something.
The Earth is becoming more uninhabitable but it's because of people like Musk. We actually already have a perfectly good planet to live on.
Sounds like we can save humanity by sending capitalists into the cold vacuum of space
Why waste resources? We have perfectly functional firearms and ammo right here on Earth
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Sounds like we're burning a lot of rocket fuel on this project, comrade. You're not secretly an Elon yourself are you?
One of the things that makes me sad is that it takes huge amount of energy to make something fall into the sun. I wish it was cheaper. It would be nice to play a game of interplanetary darts with Mercury as the bullseye and capitalists as the darts.
There is certainly an argument to be made for expanding. Humanity's chances of continuing to exist for x number of years improve drastically the moment there is a stable, self-sufficient group of humans on a completely different planet. It would mean we can no longer be wiped out by any single planetary catastrophe.
I think Mars is a dead end, though. Someone posted on here a while back about the concept of Venus colonies, up in the upper atmosphere. Those sound awesome, and they lack a few of the problems we'd face trying to colonize Mars.
Yeah, they actually have them in Wolfenstein reboot.
I think the idea is that they're built in a reasonably survivable area of the atmosphere. The ground is bad, but a few miles up is manageable.
I'd have to look it up again though. Basically read about it in passing a few years ago.
Venus is also more Earth-like as well in regards to size and mass. I suppose the benefit of Mars is that you're closer to the asteroid belt.
Yeah I remember it pretty well. I didn't know that about wolfenstein though, that's cool.
There's a NASA report about it (scroll to the bottom and hit the little pdf link)
Kurzgesagt has a nice video recently on terraforming Venus. What they fail to mention is that it would never happen under capitalism.