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Mars Is a Hellhole

theatlantic.com · 970 words · saved by 1 readers

Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.

There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which may someday send humans to Mars, is, according to Musk, likely to launch soon , possibly within the coming days. But what motivates Musk? Why bother with Mars? A video clip from an interview Musk gave in 2019 seems to sum up Musk’s vision—and everything that’s wrong with it. In the video , Musk is seen reading a passage from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot . The book, published in 1994, was Sagan’s response to the famous image of Earth as a tiny speck of light floating in a sunbeam—a shot he’d begged NA

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