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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by obastani on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:17PM (#14571406)
Are you sure you'd still feel that once you're actually there? What if many people might believe what you say, but then quickly change their minds as soon as they find out how difficult and uncomfortable it is to live on Mars?
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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by justinpombrio on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:50PM (#14571686)
If this is actually a problem, it's easy to fix: have a required 6-month stay in a Mars simulation on Earth, complete with inedible food and unending labor.

I doubt that it would be, though. If someone not only claims that they want to toil and die on Mars, but actually gets a ticket to leave all their friends and family behind on Earth to do so... that's not the sort of thing that people do lightly.

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