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.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Mars. I always wonder what they are thinking, there is different level of radiation and gravity and all the other conditions that humans that evolved on Earth are not meant to live under. Plus society develops based on objective laws, nobody can artificially create society the way it is on Earth now. It is a natural process. But I bet they want it the exact same way, so they can exploit others. Utopia for stupid capitalists. But mainly I think they won't survive there physically.

[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.