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Elon Musk Hints 1st Person To Mars May Go Via New Brownsville Spaceport
MarkWhittington writes If SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has his way, the first astronaut to set foot on Mars may begin his or her journey from the new commercial spaceport being built at Boca Chica Beach, just outside Brownsville, Texas. The Texas Tribune reported on Monday that Musk made the suggestion at the ground breaking ceremony of the commercial spaceport. The ceremony was also attended by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and various other Texas politicians and dignitaries, Musk's desire to establish a Mars colony and even retire to the Red Planet himself is not a secret.
It would certainly be funny, but it would also never happen, because the Singularity is the nerd version of the Rapture. Human consciousness is not hardware agnostic.
Indeed. It would be a huge surprise if anybody went to Mars in the next 50 years. Let them sustain a Moon-base for 20 years, and then we can talk about it. All this "going to Mars" is pure nonsense at this time, as there is nothing there and no way to come back.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Human consciousness is not hardware agnostic.
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Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
Antarctica is the most comparable place on Earth, and we've not managed a large-scale colonization of it yet despite the easy access, regular resupply flights and air.
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Because there is no reason to colonize Antarctica. It has all the negatives without any of the positives.
Mars has some huge positives, namely the fact that it's not Earth. Think of it as an offsite backup for the human race.
Colonizing Antarctica would be like making a backup of your computer on a USB stick and then leaving it plugged in.