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I agree we're many decades out from earnestly colonizing Mars. We'll have to get much wealthier, where "wealth" = new innovations in human wellbeing *and* reduced scarcity of those we have. But: the light bulb is <150 years old. There are people alive today born before penicillinhttps://twitter.com/KevinSimler/status/1142923685809938432 …
"Many decades away" seems pretty darn close when we're talking about becoming a plausibly-permanently multiplanetary species, and it's exciting, and it should remind us how incredible the difference is between the circumstances under which recent human lives have begun & ended
It absolutely blows my f%#^ing mind that the gap between (a) the Wright brothers' first successful short flights in the first passable airplane ever, and (b) the moon landing(!) was SIXTY-FIVE YEARS.
This is a project that is exactly as many decades away as we want it to be.
When/how would living on Mars ever be anything but a net drain on energy/money from Earth? Mars isn't full of energy sources, because it hasn't had life forms that spent hundreds of millions of years capturing and storing the Sun's energy.
NASA's definitely not going to be the ones doing it. cc @KevinSimler
The important bit about Mars is creating a colony causally unlinked to the rest of humanity where new models can be tested without the insane powers that be reinforcing the status quo. I wouldn't be surprised if they, say, discarded or redesigned the notion of personal property.
I like @DavidDeutschOxf definition of wealth: "The repertoire of physical transformations that one is capable of causing." The repertoire can be expanded with money and power, but predominantly with more knowledge. Also for Mars, we only lack knowledge. Not energy or matter.
The complementary notion is wealth as a thriving planetary ecology, to cause a biosphere
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