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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:05PM (#7438267)
If 300,000 people are living on Mars and an asteroid hits Earth, that's still 7 billion people dead.
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by unfunco on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:16PM (#7438357)
Likely a lot more than 7 billion if you were to look at the population projections between now and the time we could have 300,000 people settled on Mars.

The point though, is that 300,000 people with knowledge acquired from the entirety of history is better than an empty solar system.

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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:20PM (#7438394)
The point is that the human race survives.
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by eli_gottlieb on Thursday March 20, 2014 @06:11PM (#7439224)
Yeah, but I don't quite see why I should care about that aside from my default state of caring about the actual people.
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by SomeoneWeird on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:37PM (#7438546)
Yes, it is, but the human species won't die..
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