The whole point of Mars (or any other second planet) is redundancy. If something happens to earth we have a backup plan, as a species.

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thaumasiotes 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There isn't anything that can happen to Earth that would make it worse than Mars.

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fuzztester 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>The whole point of Mars (or any other second planet) is redundancy.

No. It's some combination of cowardice, greed and ego, by those involved.

You can bet your ass those guys are not thinking about saving the species. Lol. Furthest thing from their minds.

Solve the Earth's problems on Earth instead, no need to run off to Mars.

That's just kicking the can down the road.

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dismalaf 3 days ago | parent [-]

> those guys

Who do you think are "those guys"? Talking Musk? NASA? All the people who have dreamt of traveling the stars the last 100 years?

Remember, we landed on the moon before Elon Musk was born. He's also not the first to talk about landing or living on Mars.

And it's not to hedge against us destroying the planet. It's to hedge against an asteroid or other occurrence we can't control.

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ngcazz 3 days ago | parent [-]

Musk has a proven track record of using govt subsidies to fund companies to enrich himself immeasurably, and his Nazi turn proves that personal enrichment, not technological advancement, is what is at stake. I don't mean to be preachy but anyone who is providing support for the most racist and perfidious elements of society in Germany and the UK should be disavowed in the strongest terms.

	▲	dismalaf 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Wow Musk really lives rent free in your head eh? My comment literally about the fact that space travel predates Musk's ambitions by generations, and y'all just double down... Fun fact, the first person to mention colonising other planets is John Wilkens in the 17th century. I'm sure you'll find a way to connect that to Musk though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization