• @[email protected]
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    1811 hours ago

    I can’t leave. I see the sheer stupidity, I want to distance myself from it, but I’m stuck on this planet. No matter how hard I want to live on Mars, I can’t, and it’s not fair.

    • djsoren19
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      27 hours ago

      Honestly at this point, I don’t need a ship or even a suit, just shunt me straight out into the cold vacuum of space. I just don’t want to die on this rock, let my corpse drift among the stars until it gets caught in a gravity well and pulled into our Sun.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        16 hours ago

        cold vacuum

        Well, is it? The air can be hot or cold.
        On sunlight or in shade of some object?

        The outside of ISS heats up to 250°F (121°C) in sunlight. That’s not quite cold.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 hours ago

      I would be ok with a compromise to get the current administration and those nuts to Mars ASAP.

      • @officermike
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        910 hours ago

        I’d like to see them leave for Mars. Don’t care if they actually make it there.

    • @expatriado
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      if Mars get populated, bunch of Musk fanboys would be among the first to volunteer, so i pass

      • Psaldorn
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        Wouldn’t be long before they convinced themselves the outside air was breathable and staying inside was infringing on their liberties.

        I hear the perchlorates are lovely this time of year.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 hours ago

        The SpaceX mission to Mars more and more look like FSD in Tesla.

        There’s no way a company will bet on such risky mission, that if it failed it would completely kill it. It would actually have to be financed by a government, but as they are dismantling it, it also looks less likely.

        We have much better chance for future if we can stop pollution and stop climate change. The billionaires think that they can simply run to Mars, but it won’t be in their lifetime.

        Also if somehow it will be successful, it won’t be for us, unless maybe sending us as a slave labor.