Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by courtf on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#27908825)

Getting to the moon and Mars won't save the human race, Earth is where life can be sustained. Humans cannot reproduce in space, on the moon or on Mars because gravity has a strong and vital role in gestation in mammals. Beyond that, these other locations are quite inhospitable (radiation, temperature, pressure, etc), more inhospitable than pretty much anywhere on Earth.

If we can't make it work here and end up destroying the ecology of Earth, upon which we depend, there's no reason to think we'll survive on the moon or Mars.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by krallja on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:10PM (#27909026)

FYI, there’s actually gravity on the Moon and Mars. We haven’t done studies to determine if it’s enough G for successful propagation of the species.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by courtf on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:11PM (#27909048)

Yeah of course there's gravity, there's gravity in space too. I'm saying it won't be enough.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by edmundsauto on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:26PM (#27909274)

Have we done studies to show this conclusively? If not, I would think that getting to the moon would be important in order to perform those studies.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by criddell on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:12PM (#27912257)

I don't believe the moon and Mars are end goals, just steps along the way.

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