By all rights, this should be something I am deeply passionate about. I’ve been in tech/engineering my entire adult life and was obsessed with NASA as a kid. I even live on the east coast of Florida and can sometimes see the launches/landings over the ocean. But I just… don’t care at all. I’m not suffering from depression or any other malaise, and generally things are fine. But I haven’t clicked on a single link or looked at a single image. I know this has not been the case for many, many people, so I’m wondering what might be different about this launch (or really the whole program in general), and curious if anyone else has found themselves feeling the same.
What’s your argument here? Why is it ridiculous?
Because earth has vastly better natural resources. It would be like trying to build an empire in Antarctica or the Sahara. At least those have air!
With Mars, the environment is completely inhospitable to humans, there’s no soil to grow food, no air to breathe, no nothing. To even set up a research station there would be a big achievement, to make that self-sustaining would be an incredible advancement. But you’re skipping the research station, skipping the colony, skipping the independent state, and going straight to empire without solving any of the problems in between. How are you even going to feed or provide oxygen to a Martian empire?
America was full of vast, untapped natural resources, and it still took nearly 200 years to become a superpower, after European powers devastated each other.
like i could go write a very long article here about how to do things, but i think that would miss the point. we’ll simply wait and see what happens, though i suspect it could take at least 100 years.