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.
NASA’s upcoming crewed missions to the Moon are seen as the stepping stones for sending humans to Mars by the 2040s. In addition, many private space exploration companies, like SpaceX have expressed interest in or even goals to send humans to Mars in the near future as well. [$]. Ten reasons to colonize Mars, per starlust.org:
Have we really given up on solving Earth’s rampant problems? Comments on some of the above:
No. 1: We only know how to compete with other powers, and anticipate hostility in more distant galaxies
No. 3: Same as No. 1
No. 4: Uncle! Stop! Already observed is the belief that “The advantage of AI replicas is that anyone around the world would be able to chat with them at the same time. Here lies a great business opportunity.”
No. 5: $
No. 6: $ There’s already competition afoot.
No. 8: Trying to run away from the mess we’re in. Upping the ante for survival. Gambling, not ensuring. (Nuclear bombs can work in outer space)
No. 9: Hoping to advance as a fragment of a species. Can you imagine exporting people of color to our new world?
No. 10: Competition with other “civilizations” for global power and pelf: the worst reason.
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?]
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