The ocean floor is more habitable than Mars.

The asteroid belt likely contains more easily-obtained rare metals that also don’t have to escape Mars’ terminal velocity.

Reading a comment like the grandparent’s while we’re surrounded by many tangible crises on earth is sickening. Especially many of them manufactured by the same man who the grandparent comment seems to deify (DOGE AIDS funding).

Anyway, I find myself feeling contempt for the people in this industry pretty often.

Human problems are generally unsolvable, no matter how much money is spent on them.