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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by babyrainbow on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:24PM (#14571471)
>It's extremely naive and arrogant to spend the resources to colonize Mars than try and make more places habitable on Earth.

>It's even more arrogant to believe that a Mars society will be any different or better than the society on Earth.

100% agree on both points.

Spacex is just selling dreams. Sadly, people today are so enamored with technology that they easily buy into such dreams sold by these companies....

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by enraged_camel on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:36PM (#14571557)
Dreams are how major progress is made, which is important when people realize incremental progress just won't cut it.

"I have a dream." -Martin Luther King Jr.

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by babyrainbow on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:47PM (#14571656)
Sure sure..But those are ones own dreams. Not the ones sold to you in exchange for investment....

Big difference pal.

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Re:Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars by ceejayoz on Friday June 16, 2017 @03:02PM (#14571786)
If I dream to be a writer, it's not a bad thing if someone's out there selling pens and paper.

I've dreamt about Mars colonization long before SpaceX existed.

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