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Re:Why We Can't Solve Big Problems by Florin_Andrei on Thursday October 25, 2012 @12:44PM (#4698277)
All of the above except the last one are much harder to do than kickstarting a Mars colony.

The last one is downright impossible.

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Re:Why We Can't Solve Big Problems by zerostar07 on Thursday October 25, 2012 @12:51PM (#4698320)
We already have a colony in low earth orbit. Also, by colonizing mars we will only have 2 points of failure.
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Re:Why We Can't Solve Big Problems by Florin_Andrei on Thursday October 25, 2012 @01:06PM (#4698402)
> We already have a colony in low earth orbit.

It's a little flying shack, not a "colony". Anyway, it's not self-sustainable, which is the main issue.

> Also, by colonizing mars we will only have 2 points of failure.

It appears that you've never done backups.

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