Why a Mars Colony is a Dangerous and Stupid Idea

Elon said something that’s make this MUCH worse “if you can’t afford the trip you can just take our a loan and work it off there” he literally said he wants indentured servants to work in his mars colony.

Pollution on Earth as an argument for space colonies have always baffled me. If you can make something like Mars habitable, you can unfuck whatever pollution you have on Earth.

Gotta love how Elon literally said he would be the man who makes the mars laws. No earth laws. What could go wrong

I’m just trying to imagine a world where climate change is so bad that fixing it is harder than terraforming Mars, and I can’t.

The idea of uber-rich people trying to escape a problem they created, only to find themselves in an unimaginable hell, kind of makes me smile. Not gonna lie.

"And a remote-controlled self-destruct mechanism if colonists ever try to unionize" Damn, he really planned this one out. I'm convinced.

the idea of a bunch of people on a reality tv show on mars having to entertain people to fund their own survival seems like a pretty good premise for a show or movie actually

I had been wondering about humanity on Mars for a long time, but it never donned on me that the Martian surface would be incredibly depressing to live on after the initial hype. Imagine waking up to orange dust under your feet, orange rocks on the horizon, and an orange sky above you. Every day for the rest of your life. You'd never realize what you left behind until it was too late.

"only the top 1% will be able to go" "someone will go crazy within a month, and 1 fire/depressurization/etc would kill everyone" yknow this sounds like a great idea for the 1% to pursue!

"Following 5 years of work the project is already in the CGI stage" Lmfao literally every "futuristic" project

Giving the billionaires a one-way ticket to Mars doesn't sound like such a bad idea tbh.

Just recently spoke with a manager at JPL - NASA. He ranted briefly about how stupid it was that they’re being forced to spend money on the Mars colony project for this exact same reason. Our elected representatives are also easily bamboozled by the likes of Elon Musk. After all, they weren’t immune to Elizabeth Holmes either.

"Travelling to Mars would be miserable, expensive, and life-threatening for anybody involved" I am no longer in favor of space travel to mars "Only billionaires would be able to go anyway" I am once again in favor of space travel to mars

"Following 5 years of feverish work the project is already at the CGI rendering stage" actually has me in stitches. Thank you Adam.

The worst part is the cloud cities on Venus works out to be smarter than a Mars Base. To be honest, though, I think it's probably just easier to save what we currently have.

Why people think rich people are smart is beyond me

Every time I hear about a colony on Mars, I remember the story of the early Jamestown colonists. 1. 80% of them died. 2. The survivors wrote passages in their diaries saying things like, "I'd give up my legs to go back. Better to be a crippled beggar on the streets if London." Virginia was far more accessible and habitable to 17th century Englishmen than Mars is to us.

Space physicist here, technically the launch windows you talked about at the start of the video aren't for the fastest trips, but for the most fuel efficient trips (which is not the same thing, because orbital mechanics can be unintuitive). So if you were able to bring and burn a lot more fuel, you could go in a more or less straight line and it would be much faster. But there's a good reason why we never do that. Also yes, the moon is obviously a much better candidate. While all this is going on, ESA are currently developing plans for a lunar colony in the next few decades, with actual scientific goals and achievable deadlines. So that's the space colony news I'd recommend you follow, if any.

Anyone remember "Biosphere II", and how well that worked? 😄 All the scientists started to turn on each other (they called it: "Irrational Adversarial Syndrome"), and they sabotaged each other's projects, until they could no longer support themselves without outside intervention. And that was without the stress of a seven month space flight, or living with the looming threat of certain death right outside your door every day.

As many others have said. I’m actually happy that all of these billionaires are going to go to mars. They can live in hell and when they realize how stupid they were and there’s no way to get back. We can all laugh at how their entire life being driven by arrogance resulted in such a perfect result for them