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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by thearn4 on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:08PM (#14571297)
Scientific and engineering ethics kind of stand in the way of letting people throw away their lives just because it's cool.
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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by developerdanny on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:14PM (#14571369)
If that were the case, we'd have never got to the moon.
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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by sillysaurus3 on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:13PM (#14571356)
Apparently not. :)

Also, I'm not entirely convinced it will be a waste. Even a 0.2% chance of success is worth taking if the payoff is high enough. And we're talking about forces with both social and economic consequences.

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by irrational on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:53PM (#14571700)
We'd all still be in Africa with that kind of attitude.
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