just send all the billionaires to mars and the rest of us will have to learn how to survive without them
The poor moon, it gets skipped over. Doesn’t it deserve to be colonized too? Maybe we could put an amusement park there or something.
Ooh! It could have animatronics that sing songs about what it was like being a whaler on the moon!
Or farming space beetles on the half of the planet your family owns
Shhhh!!! 🤫 This the best chance we have to get rid of a bunch of them all at once
Me (a sysadmin): We need an off-site backup. Preferably in a completely different “availability zone”.
I love the thought of being one of the only programmers on Mars. Being able to say: “I’m gonna do it my way. What are you gonna do, travel to Mars?”, when some comes up with a stupid request, would be absolutely priceless.
Okay, but The Planet Crafter is really cool for exactly that reason. You slowly but surely make a barren wasteland livable, it’s extremely rewarding
Edit: I may have misunderstood the intention of this meme, but I still stand behind Planet Crafter being a fun game
Meanwhile on earth we are slowly but surely making a livable planet a barren wasteland
For money
For like 400 massive douchebags
Yeah, pretty much. What was the name of that movie? Oh yeah, Elysium. That’s probably what’s going to happen, isn’t it
Bet Elongated Husk will be the one to build the Elysium.
I’m all for it. With his ability to fuck things up, he’d actually do us a favour for once
Let him. Hopefully someone will then hack into Space Force network and nuke it.
It’s the only way to be sure…
That’s Kirkjufell in Iceland
Villia Starlight strikes again.
I wouldn’t mind leaving a lot of Earth’s natural beauty alone, as much as SpaceX’s mission doesn’t resonate with me very much
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Economics Explained recently published a video explaining how using space as a way to get resources will never be economically viable. It doesn’t matter how cheap you can produce something if the shipping cost is $5,000 per gram. We’d sooner syphon gold out of ocean water than get it from an asteroid.
Space travel is a great investment when it comes to discovering new technologies that revolutionize life, but a terrible investment for resource extraction.
It’s great if the resources go from space, to space and stay the hell away from major gravity wells.
So space station colonies or colonies on dwarf planets and smaller moons.
Remember, a good 90% of the cost is “how do we leave the planet” and then most of the rocket is shed. All that waste wouldn’t be needed if we never touch down on planets to begin with.
Hence the interest in a lunar base, especially one that can produce fuel from local water
However, Mars has mountains 10 times higher, Deeper and larger canyons. In general it would be suitable for megalophobic scenarios.
