• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    If our planet is fucked, Mars would be fucked as well. With only a handful of exceptions.

    If we can terraform Mars, we would be able to re-terraform Earth much more easily.

    “Just because we can” is the only real argument here.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Just bcz we can is a poor attitude to have about human endeavors. The best thing we do as a species is science. We spend all day long killing eachother in wars, and having lying ass politicians try to pull one over on their populations while telling then to get bent when they ask for support…

      It is literally the one thing we do that is amazing, and awe inspiring, and reaches across political, socioeconomic, and social boundaries. If we as a species can’t even come together to agree that we should be pushing the boundaries of what it means to be human, I don’t know what to tell you. We are gonna be stuck on this rock until a cosmic event wipes us out. And that’s just sad for us.