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Mars fans anticipate trading only known habitable planet for world where any unprotected human would immediately perish (www.thebeaverton.com)

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Fries is just as confident about the eye-watering price Musk wants for a trip to Mars. “I’m slapping down my hundred grand as soon as that fortune a Nigerian prince left me arrives. The future is so bright, I need sunglasses.”

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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

A likelier fantasy is to con people into giving money for projects, and/or con Musk into thinking it is possible so they can sell him stuff.

Going to Mars? Humans haven't gone to the Moon in over 50 years, and that was after JFK and LBJ spent much on NASA.