Comment by stronglikedan
4 hours ago
Classic Neil, always something smart-sounding to say about the wrong thing. It's more about discovery and adventure than fleeing a dying planet. To quote someone that I'm sure is Neil's intellectual superior, "¿Por qué no los dos?"
Because at this rate we'll be lucky to get enough funding and cooperation just to prevent Earth from warming by 4+C, and we need all hands on deck for that.
I know deGrasse is apparently in private, a bit of a ahole, but in this case he is completely correct: https://youtu.be/t0Yqy_-PCfY
https://youtu.be/IdjtK54Lprw?t=266
That's a very bad-faith take of Musk's stated plans. Which is great for sound bites, but there is enough wrong with a good-faith interpretation of his plans that this is entirely unnecessary. He is not arguing in good faith here
And you are going to explain why instead of just stating an opinion...since an opinion is not an argument...right?
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Classic sarcastic ironically detached drive-by HN comment. Where is the money going to come from to do both? Every dollar spent on discovery and adventure could be invested in Earth based projects.
Because colonizing Mars is only slightly more realistic than breeding unicorns.
> "¿Por qué no los dos?"
Because right now we're not investing in fixing Earth but seriously investing in an infeasible Mars mission.