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Re:Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars by 2025 by kelseyfrancis on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:19AM (#11002095)
And if we completely address hunger, poverty, disease, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, sectarian violence, economic inequality, etc. but then an asteroid or comet causes our extinction?
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Re:Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars by 2025 by seiji on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:28AM (#11002145)
Yeah, it's like focusing on writing 100% test coverage for all code you use so your company is more reliable while ignoring all your code is stored on just one 10 year old HD that could fail at any moment (or fire, flood, cloverfield, etc).
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Re:Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars by 2025 by rhino369 on Saturday January 30, 2016 @01:19PM (#11002995)
If you are worried about that, why not build a biodome in the antarctic instead. Or build millions of greenhouse farms to survive impact winter.

Even if you are really into space exploration, developing a comet pusher would be infinitely more valuable.

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Re:Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Send People to Mars by 2025 by skorgu on Sunday January 31, 2016 @08:43AM (#11006347)
At least for the comet pusher, the tech needed to put a non-trivial number of humans on Mars has a ton of overlap with the tech needed to divert potential impacts.
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