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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by jetzzz on Sunday March 03, 2019 @01:51PM (#19296059)
With all those things, even after nuclear war, Earth is still much better place for life than Mars.
Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by Tepix on Sunday March 03, 2019 @04:20PM (#19296973)
Depends on the size of the asteroid
Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by dotancohen on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:00AM (#19299570)
> Depends on the size of the asteroid.

Which is inversely correlated with the chances of it coming in any particular timeframe.

I'm the biggest fan of colonizing Mars, but my children know that if Daddy ever has the chance he is going to Mars to suffer, not to play. Mars will be hard and unforgiving. Life will be horrible for the first two generations at least. At no point will it ever be better than life on Earth.

And yet, I'll be the first in line.

Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks with International Space Station by childintime on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:36AM (#19300480)
> if Daddy ever has the chance he is going to Mars to suffer, not to play. Mars will be hard and unforgiving. Life will be horrible for the first two generations at least. At no point will it ever be better than life on Earth.

This reminded me of computer tech in its first approximation: hard and unforgiving. It took about 2 generations to make it into a ubiquitous mobile device. In about four generations AI will make space colonies possible. "And AI shall produce acomodations for adventurous humans and preserve them". Space seems first and foremost the realm of AI, embodying our outreach. We won't actually go to space unless a planet is discovered and farmed to be hospitable.