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.”

  • d00ery@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Hasn’t Mars already had its extinction level event when it lost an atmosphere.

    many studies suggest that the Martian atmosphere was much thicker in the past

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars

    Surely it makes more sense to prevent extinction level events occurring in the first place!

    Though I think in general terms humanity living on other planets is a good thing.