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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by adwn on Friday March 21, 2014 @01:26AM (#7440795)
"Ever" is a very strong word for a technological project which doesn't contradict any known natural laws. Do you honestly not see the possibility that we might be able to build a self-sustaining, comfortable colony on Mars in 100 years? 500? 1000?
Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by LordHumungous on Friday March 21, 2014 @06:05PM (#7445249)
I honestly do not, for the reason that the cost of such a venture is simply too high. If we cannot even manage to bear the minimal costs of stopping catastrophic climate change on our own planet, then what makes you think we will ever have the will, much less the ability, to undertake the terraforming of a lifeless planet millions of miles away?