Re:Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus
by aaron695 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:02AM
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> Most of our biggest Mars advocates currently are wealthy white men
Compared to the Black community who wants to go to Venus? This article is just toxic.
But some decent humans do also raise the point and it's because of two reasons.
1) Floating cities are cool Hollywood style, people can see how it's hard to do on Earth so they shift it to a place where it's so hard and complicated they can no longer see the blockers, it looks easy again.
2) People need to fork things. It's fun to start something from scratch instead of just doing the hard work on the existing system and working with it.
Mars is hard, part of the reason is because we have done so much work understanding it and working towards the goal.
Compared to the Black community who wants to go to Venus? This article is just toxic.
But some decent humans do also raise the point and it's because of two reasons.
1) Floating cities are cool Hollywood style, people can see how it's hard to do on Earth so they shift it to a place where it's so hard and complicated they can no longer see the blockers, it looks easy again.
2) People need to fork things. It's fun to start something from scratch instead of just doing the hard work on the existing system and working with it.
Mars is hard, part of the reason is because we have done so much work understanding it and working towards the goal.