Former US President Barack Obama and others debate the importance of space colonization, with Obama emphasizing the need to protect Earth before considering colonizing Mars. Obama argues that even extreme events like nuclear war or climate change wouldn't make Mars more livable. Some disagree, highlighting the necessity of space colonization for human survival beyond Earth.
Obama Slams Plan to Escape Earth by Colonizing Mars https://t.co/iW5w94Ho0h
Humanity must preserve #Earth before dreaming of colonizing #Mars because even nuclear war and unbridled climate change cannot make the red planet more livable, former US President Barack Obama says. https://t.co/vfGFGIDb5f
Obama has this all wrong (as usual). The need to colonize space has far less to do with comparing current habitability and a lot more to do with the survival of our species after an extinction level event. To limit humanity to Earth is also a limit on the expansion of human… https://t.co/3G2njULHzs
NEW: Protect Earth instead of colonising Mars because even nuclear war and unbridled climate change cannot make the red planet more liveable, Barack Obama says https://t.co/jGuk7ky2bD https://t.co/sYeox8L0Sd
The problem with people who fret about the problems of space colonisation - either honestly or as a rhetorical tool to bash an enterprise they don't like for other reasons - is that they fail to account for the fact that the humans you have to keep alive are not passive entities.…