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

submitted 3 weeks ago by ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one to c/theonion@midwest.social

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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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[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hasn't Mars already had its extinction level event when it lost an atmosphere.

many studies suggest that the Martian atmosphere was much thicker in the past

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars

Surely it makes more sense to prevent extinction level events occurring in the first place!

Though I think in general terms humanity living on other planets is a good thing.