> "You can't breathe the air, the pressure of the atmosphere is a tiny fraction of what we have on Mount Everest"
Well, thank you professor science. An observation that my 8 year old nephew could have told me.
The benefit of colonizing mars is all of the ancillary technologies that come along with it. Reusable rockets will give us Starlink, Easier Space Travel and asteroid mining.
Making a habbitat on mars will force us to invest interplanetary internet protocols. It will force us to make better catalysis research for air, water, waste processing and synthesis.
Uninhabitability will force us to increase automation capabilities so robots can build the base structures before we arrive.
Going multiplanetary will give our species apocalypse redundancy.
I'm sure I only touched on 5% of the reality because my imagination is so limited, but anyone who's done a tiny amount of reading on the subject can see the insane benefits, including commercial opportunities that exist here.
But James Lovelock "wouldn't waste his fortune" on these endeavours - isn't it good we don't live in a world of pessimists like him who would hoard their future, secure in the knowledge that, when the planet finishing asteroid hits us, at least he can be vaporised with his pile of money, and it wouldn't have been "wasted"
> "You can't breathe the air, the pressure of the atmosphere is a tiny fraction of what we have on Mount Everest"
Well, thank you professor science. An observation that my 8 year old nephew could have told me.
The benefit of colonizing mars is all of the ancillary technologies that come along with it. Reusable rockets will give us Starlink, Easier Space Travel and asteroid mining.
Making a habbitat on mars will force us to invest interplanetary internet protocols. It will force us to make better catalysis research for air, water, waste processing and synthesis.
Uninhabitability will force us to increase automation capabilities so robots can build the base structures before we arrive.
Going multiplanetary will give our species apocalypse redundancy.
I'm sure I only touched on 5% of the reality because my imagination is so limited, but anyone who's done a tiny amount of reading on the subject can see the insane benefits, including commercial opportunities that exist here.
But James Lovelock "wouldn't waste his fortune" on these endeavours - isn't it good we don't live in a world of pessimists like him who would hoard their future, secure in the knowledge that, when the planet finishing asteroid hits us, at least he can be vaporised with his pile of money, and it wouldn't have been "wasted"