I wrote a post on August 2 of this year, applauding  Ari Loeb for his dedication and follow-through with a project of gathering material from an early meteor, possibly from far away and long ago, on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.  I still admire that determination.  A cookie may have told him I remarked favorably on him and I recently received more about his endeavors  in my e-mail, involving populating Mars;  plans that horrified me.

Today in the U.S., more than 5 million children have been voted into poverty via cancellation of  a tax break; beaucoup states promise jail terms if women insist on limiting the number of children they have;  qualified  teachers  are being distrusted,  fired, maligned, insulted. bullied and quitting; librarians are being hounded to  ban books;  natural gender mistakes are vilified; we can’t decide if we want to have an oligarchy or democracy; changed law to allow young teens to work in slaughterhouses and other more permissive child labor laws; allow  habitual  elected liars to prosper; tolerate malfeasance in the Supreme Court; permit violence  and overt prejudice against non-white citizens; reward the wealthy by permitting  corporations to buy elections; allow Congress to manipulate our Armed Forces; prevent physicians from following their hallowed oath to “first do no harm,” by legislating their neglect of  terminal pregnancy conditions, when death is the result of denied treatment; and continuation, even expansion, of fossil fuel  plants,  resulting in the anticipated early death of mankind as we know it, for profit.

In light of thousands of unresolved earthbound issues (see for instance above) ,  there are  many excellent minds and  pockets of science apparently engaged in ignoring our downhome, earthbound  conflagrations to pursue escaping to outer space. (The wealthiest nation escaping responsibility for the mess we’re in on Earth).  [“Let me outta here!”]  A.I. aside, one line of endeavor is to populate Mars with life of some sort.

What is that saying about follow the money?

And according to cnbc.com, Elon Musk has said he’ll send a million people to Mars by 2050 [So a select few might have a chance to escape Climate Change?]