Escape

[matrixmann]

Maybe there's a reason why the American establishment wants to colonize Mars so badly: If they can build themselves a shelter on a distant planet, maybe they think "oh, now we can make nuclear war as we want, we don't need to have consideration for anyone anymore - if we want something, we get that something by all means!".
They don't need to care about the destruction anymore, but about the business value.

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[mandarinsun.livejournal.com]

Human beings will colonize Mars in the next two hundred and fifty years. That would be my wager and guess. I agree that the next problem will be that many arrogant people will say and start believing that it will happen very soon, but I even think the goal that the United States is to have one space vessel be there by 2030.

In Phillip K. Dick novels, the governments of Earth are trying to get people to go be colonists on Mars, through advertising, to ease overcrowding here, but the colonies that are on Mars in the novels are miserable. I agree that it will likely be like that.

I don't see why having miserable colonies on Mars isn't a possible goal though. It seems pretty likely to happen in say two hundred years.

[matrixmann]

They will try to. But if they will also succeed...
Saying, there's a lot of shit "mankind" (rather its rich people) once dreamed about and still they don't have it. Like flying cars. Because all they can think of is bashing their heads in and talking about coitus and naked tits.
There's also quite a lot shit on the other side which they managed to accomplish, and some stuff meanwhile even sooner than they thougt.

If it's for aerospace travel, I pick the following: There had been dreams of building a station on the moon directly, how much has come true of that? Still there's the conspiracy theory going round in the world if the Americans had been on the moon at all.
They haven't come further than that. And that almost 50 years after the first landing (if it was so).
There even had been no attempts to land on the moon since more than 40 years.
And this shall be able to present you even only a landing on Mars during the next 15 years?
Not to forget the robots they sent to Mars; those landings all also haven't been without struggles in the aftermath. Their buggy that works can only drive backwards (forward is broken), the last one they lost contact to.