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[โ€“] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (32 children)

Do people really think we'll colonize mars soon?

Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be orders of magnitude cheaper, and more practical. Same with Antarctica. And there's a reason we don't do that.

I hate to sound anal, but I don't think the public appreciates how monumentally difficult space travel is, and how it gets exponentially worse with every ounce you have to carry. Even with theoretical, morally questionable tech like fission fragment drives or whatever.

[โ€“] portside@monyet.cc 1 points 3 months ago

I always was optimistic when I was young but the older I get the more I realise why we will not have fucking flying cars, Mars colonisation

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