we wont "need" planetary colonization until 400,000 years from now.
and civilization as we know it is only 4,000 years old.
and we're going to exhaust all raw materials in 400 years.
if climate change doesnt cause a catastrophe in 40 years.
meanwhile, why not "colonize" the Sahara or the antarctic. it has atmosphere, survivable temperature, no UV rays, water source. colonizing mars 395,000 years too early is a wasteful error.
I wouldn't go with 400.000 years old as some hard number. But yeah , I agree.
Elon Musk goes on saying things like "SpaceX will colonize Mars" , but that is a full-on lie. The likes of Space Programs are aiming using drones , then human landing to make on-spot data research and then , eventually , creating a scientific base.
All of that would need 100 year or so to make it in a responsible and sensible way.
The hard deadline is about 500,000 yrs from now, when Sun has increased 10% in luminosity and is evaporating away our oceans, and we're going headlong into greenhouse effect. I chose 400k to give us some leeway (basically 10 whole "civilizations" before doomsday).
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u/DominicB547 1d ago
Vivian his trans daughter told Hassan Piker that the Mars things is a complete farce.