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You responded to no actual tangible issues. Just now spouting generic slogans.
Yes, there are plenty of people willing to risk destroying all life on earth for their project. Yes, there are plenty of people who think their idea must be done and everything else stopped to do it. People that fixate, brain fever, on one thing and that - only that - matters.
Slogans are nothing, they are lazy thinking. Nothing else. I could list all sorts of really cool things to spend trillions on for the adventure of discovery. Adds up to nothing.
Simple realities:
1. The oceans, here, on Earth, are not 10% explored. They offer fabulous amounts of mineral resources and are essential to human life. The oceans are slowly dying. They die, we die. Much of our oxygen originates there, as does much of even land-based food.
2. The Earth is not well managed in usage. Call it efficiency or call it harvesting, the same thing.
Both those would be MASSIVE undertakings. To me, it is absurd to ignore and neglect scientific development towards Earth, while exploring a dead planet 35 million miles away as astronomical costs and in a manner just to have people walk on it because walking on Mars is cool. Not for a moment have you given ANY reason this can not be done more effectively, successfully, cheaply and permanently remotely by robotic probes.
All you are writing is "wouldn't it be super cool if we put a space station on Mars" - and then you prove it with generic slogans that could be applied to any of a million potential ideas.
And yes, I'm being hostile. I'm hostile to the climate change fanatics too. My response? "NO! ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF OUR OCEANS BEING POISONED AND KILLED FIRST!" But there are no big graft-bucks to be made at it, no taxes to be collected from it, and no mega-costly projects to skim money off of.
My "hostility" is real in the sense of "take care of Earth first. Fully explore Earth first, before playing Buck Rogers and Captain Kirk."
No one says that we cannot do both. Again, there is simply no reason for the hostility here.
Why do you object so strongly to other people taking risks that you are either unwilling, or unable, to take yourself? It's doesn't affect you in the slightest one way or another.
Frankly, your stodgy type makes up the majority in most societies anyway. The adventure prone are always a minority.
It didn't work out for the native Americans so good.
He was a problem for them.
"**** happens." :shrug:
Your argument doesn't even make sense here anyway, as there is no one to oppress or exploit in space. It is virgin territory, free for the taking.