Risk aversion alone makes it worth having 2 plants colonized. Putting all your eggs in one planet basket is poor long term risk management. But that’s more thinking in the hundreds of thousands and millions of years before that becomes relevant.
mech@feddit.org 6 days ago
80% of earth’s surface is still completely uninhabited by humans.
I’m talking about the sea floor and most of Antarctica.
It would be much easier to build colonies there than on Mars.
Even if our worst predictions about climate change come true, hell even if warming was twice as bad, they would still be much more hospitable for human life than Mars.
We haven’t colonized those places, because it simply isn’t worth the effort.
So why would it be worth the much, much bigger effort to settle on Mars?
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
early_riser@lemmy.world 4 days ago
People desperate to live on their own terms may think it’s very much worth the effort. The pilgrims, buckle-headed weirdoes they were, probably thought as much when they boarded the Mayflower.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
But I want the Expanse timeline 🥺
(minus the blue goo, fuck that shit)