
The environment of Earth is not a factor that would affect the colonization of our solar system, in my opinion.Ī SpaceX illustration showing its "Big F-ing Spaceship" on the moon.īI: So you don't think humanity will colonize Mars first?ĪW: In terms of people bulldozing directly toward Mars like saying, "Ok, we're going to colonize Mars" - I just don't think that's realistic. Leaving Earth as an idea of saving it is just not viable. If you take the trillion dollars that you were going to spend colonizing Mars and put it into environmental amelioration things, you might find that it's better done here. There's a saying in that kind of space industry: "There is no Planet B." It's like, you don't just get to say, "Oh, f- this, we'll go elsewhere." And I guarantee you that regardless of how bad the problems are on Earth, environmentally or whatever else, it is easier to fix them than to colonize another planet. There's a certain appeal to Mars because it's interesting and exciting and people are like, "Oh, that's neat!" But the reality is that there is no economic reason to colonize Mars.

I think that could definitely happen.īut colonizing Mars is way, way far in the future, regardless of what everyone says.

It often indicates a user profile.ĪW: Talking about getting humans to Mars, like getting a flags-and-footprints kind of mission? I think is very realistic to happen this century. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
