Trump wants to get the US on Mars by his second term. https://t.co/VbWxL9o8m6
— Axios (@axios) April 24, 2017
@dandrezner Assuming we'll make the Martians pay for it.
— Layna Mosley (@thwillow) April 24, 2017
Sure, I want humanity to become “a multi-planet species” — but that won’t happen while we’re treating the one we’ve already got as disposable, something to be used up and discarded.
Hell, just getting to Mars is gonna involve a level of “reduce, reuse, recycle” that we’ve barely contemplated. Let’s practice here, where if/when things go wrong — as they did during Steve Bannon’s Biosphere II experiment — the messy aftermath can be measured in lawsuits, not deaths.
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