GREAT EXUMA, BERMUDA — Thousands of excited would-be Martians gathered at MarsFest to enthuse over Elon Musk’s most recent vow to colonize the categorically inhospitable Red Planet.

Fries is just as confident about the eye-watering price Musk wants for a trip to Mars. “I’m slapping down my hundred grand as soon as that fortune a Nigerian prince left me arrives. The future is so bright, I need sunglasses.”

  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    A likelier fantasy is to con people into giving money for projects, and/or con Musk into thinking it is possible so they can sell him stuff.

    Going to Mars? Humans haven’t gone to the Moon in over 50 years, and that was after JFK and LBJ spent much on NASA.