On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 2:30 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> * > And colonizing Mars to save humanity isn't serious either.* > I agree, unless we are able to make a self-sufficient colony on Mars, but today we don't even have the ability to make a self-sufficient colony in Antarctica, and that's a far far more benign environment than Mars is. It makes no sense to me to spend $1 trillion to send somebody to Mars and then spend another three or 4 trillion to bring him back. It will be time to send an astronaut to Mars when it's not a suicide mission even though he only has a one-way ticket. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> nwc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2-WTeJGJrNTuqjHXLe_2ODvR7xSkyQEh8sB38532ut2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
