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Re:Project Exodus: What’s behind the dream of colonizing Mars? by ourmandave on Monday May 25, 2015 @07:03PM (#9602104)
I read the closing paragraphs. The take away I got was instead of trying to colonize Mars, let's use the same brain power and resources to fix our problems here on Earth.
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Re:Project Exodus: What’s behind the dream of colonizing Mars? by infectoid on Monday May 25, 2015 @08:02PM (#9602254)
Yeah. It's kind of unfortunate that some people still think that by simply focussing all resources on one problem you can solve that problem. Has that ever been the case? Or even possible?

Either way, we do things off Earth for the same reasons we do things out of our towns and countries. It has been working out pretty well for us so far.

This has probably be linked too many times on HN but here are Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger's words again. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

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