Martin Hähnel

Settling Mars

@JugglingWithEggs Making Mars even a little bit habitable for humans is going to be a massive, generational endeavour.

The invasion of the new world on Earth was big. But that was putting people in a place that humans can already survive in very successfully. Using conventional transport.

Mars is going to take a planetwide cooperative effort. Making things right here on Earth is how we settle Mars. Not some billionaires having a rocket competition. #space #mars

I stumbled upon this Mastodon reply which reminded me of Andrew Dana Hudson's position about the need to update our "Manifest Destiny":

I do think we can go to Mars, and beyond, if we want to. But we’d have to decide to do so, collectively and democratically, probably not even as a nation-state but as a species. We’d have to put aside capitalist and nationalist competition. We’d have to take up more pressing moonshots first — decarbonization and climate repair — and then keep that momentum of big public spending flowing.