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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Serious question, but why not focus attention on underground or ocean colonization before Mars? We have a planet where the most inhabitable areas are quickly becoming over populated. It seems like a waste to put resources into going to Mars when we have a lot of issues that are more local and more pressing.
Maybe building a Mars colony is more feasible... I don't know. Why not build a massive biodome in the Gobi or the arctic first and use it as a giant food bank for starving Africans? $6 billion to go to Mars seems crazy.
(I know... if it's private money, they can do with it what they want, but I think it says a lot about us as a culture and a species)
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We've got all our eggs in one basket being here on earth, I think any venture that helps get us off this rock and onto other ones is in the best interest of the species (from a survival standpoint).