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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
Well let me ask you if Elon Musk is doing any of the following
1) Bringing clean adequate sanitation to impoverished nations?
2) Helping to spread literacy?
3) Helping to end war?
4) Investing in research and development to get all the plastic out of our oceans?
5) Ending hunger or tackling obesity in the United States?
Not trying to troll here but from what I see of this man is nothing more than a bloated self absorbed ego. He's researching technologies that will destroy the jobs of millions and wasting resources to try and go to a dead planet to look at rocks.
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Its his money. He is advancing us in areas of his interest. Think about all those things and then think about what it will mean the moment humans are living on 2 planets.
The moment we have a growing self sufficient colony on a second planet, it means we have doubled our chances of never going extint.
Once we can settle Mars then it's going to be one of Jupiter's moons or maybe even 2. This is worth more to our existence as a species than anything on your list.