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Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-only-we-had-a-history-of-colonizing-places dept.

MarkWhittington writes: An argument about class warfare has broken out over the notion of a commercial Mars colony. It started when Elon Musk, who is said to be planning to retire on the Red Planet, mused that World War III could ruin his plans to settle Mars by destroying the Earth or at least damaging civilization sufficiently that space exploration has to be put off indefinitely, Newsweek, taking up the theme of another sort of planetary disaster, accused Musk and other space-minded billionaires of plotting to abandon the planet to the ravages of global warming while they go to Mars to live the good life.

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  1. They can have it by al0ha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Living on Mars would suck, personally I'd rather be dead than Red.

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  2. I heard it on the radio by Tokolosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought the Martians were coming here because they messed-up their planet?!

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    1. Re:I heard it on the radio by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought the Martians were coming here because they messed-up their planet?!

      Relax. Donald Trump will build a force-field around the Earth, and make them pay for it.

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  3. Re:stupid stupid by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the Phone Sanitizers and IT Professionals.

  4. Re:Living on a mine field by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1, Funny

    All we need is a few good X-men.