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The idea is to have our eggs in more than one basket so that the next mass extinction event doesn't take us all out or set us back hundreds of years. Whether life on mars is fun or not is a separate question. (I do agree with you. We can barely manage to live in Antarctica. Mars will be much more difficult.) And in becoming multiplanetary, we can start gaining the tools that could help us avoid some of those extincti…
I get the idea. I'm saying we're better served by improving our Earth baskets than trying to add a Mars one. Moving 1% of your net worth out of your home currency doesn't make any sense if 99% of your money is invested in a Ponzi scheme. You want to move some of it to a safer investment before worrying about outlandish economic collapse scenarios. Not all diversification is created equal. Not sure what you mean by ex…
Re: Space: A sudden light
#51Different fundamental goal. Putting 1% in another market is an amazing way to increase the odds somebody survives. In terms of optimizing for "maximum likelihood of humanity's future existence" local improvement are marginal, versus colonization which essentially ORs the odds of survival together. The ideal is to have as many people as possible living sustainably in poverty in the asteroid belt as soon as possible.