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Comment by origini | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 21:54 UTC · link
What?

Why?

Are suddenly aliens on the moon or mars and now because its cheaper to send stuff there, its now suddenly economically worthwhile to do so?

[−]Meneth · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:46 UTC · link
The course of human life, now much closer to Mars colonization, thanks to reusable launch being so much cheaper than expendable.
[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:58 UTC · link
Mars colonization doesn't make sense though. You can't colonize a planet which is not self sufficient and depends on planet earth.

If you do'nt 'fix' earth why fixing up mars?

[−]ETH_start · 2026-11-15 Sun 03:21 UTC · link
The point of Mars colonization is to create a self-sufficient civilization on Mars.

Nothing in the laws of physics prevent that. So at the very least, we know that it's not impossible.

[−]Jtarii · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:25 UTC · link
Of all the things that aren't going to happen, human's colonizing mars has got to be near the top.
[−]vlyan · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:43 UTC · link
space colonization is a fantasy from the era of rapidly growing population. now that the population is shrinking at near-extinction speed, what's the point of it? the Earth is not and will never be as inhospitable to us as dystopian sci-fi depicts. even Antarctica is a better target for colonization that Mars, where the gravity is wrong, the air is poison, and the soil is poison.
[−]ETH_start · 2026-11-15 Sun 03:24 UTC · link
Population decline is due to government restrictions. Space colonization offers an escape from those restrictions.
[−]vlyan · 2026-11-15 Sun 06:43 UTC · link
huh? what restrictions? China's one child policy was abandoned more than a decade ago, now replaced with "pls have children, as many as you like!" policy.
[−]dylan604 · 2026-11-14 Sat 23:11 UTC · link
If you want the Vulcans to take notice, you gotta get to warp speed. Building the transporter of the parts/pieces of that kind of ship is just the first step.
[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 23:27 UTC · link
I do like this take though