Saw this article earlier today. I was wondering if anyone still believes we’ll be a multi-planetary species in our lifetime. How close are we to inhabiting another planet? Elaborate in the comments. https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/11/mars-one-is-dead/
We could have been their long ago, if we would had worked togather as one, for humanity and mankind. But instead, each one of us works for only ourselves. We are ready to destroy one another, but cant never stand as one. The truth is we are not that much intelligent spicies, as we can never see and work for farther future, for mankind (dp). Instead we are greedy and think only of individual benefit.
We need to do this. But the cautious and conservative approach NASA is taking will take 100 years. It’ll be up to private industry like spaceX to do it. And there needs to be a profit margin. Mining and mineral exploitation is the meal ticket. But we need to become a two planet species if we are to survive. You wouldn’t trust you’re entire data center without a backup and failover DC right?
Did we need it before now. No. Will we need it for research and species growth. Yes.
I read about people using CRISPR to modify humans to be better suited for life on the red planet. At this point I really can’t tell what’s science fiction and what’s realistic.
Not gonna happen. There's the capability, and there's the economics. No one's going to fund those companies.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk would and is doing so currently. It's something only the richest of the rich could do because they're thinking and preparing for the ultra longterm (decades if not centuries in the future)
Well it’s better spending 100 trillion dollars on nukes so we can talk bigly at each other. /s
Why do we want to go to a desolate far away planet to live? Why don’t we colonize the desert on earth, or the moon instead? It takes months to go to Mars and you can only go there every two years when earth and Mars are near. And there is NOTHING there. You can’t even have a conversation with earthlings if you are on Mars because of the delays.
N+1 redundancy in the case of a planetary catastrophe.