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trebor_project@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

In reality there isn’t any real reason to have a permanent base on either… especially Mars.

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GalacticRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Why? There are plenty of reasons. If Earth is the only place that ever will be habitable or the only place ‘we’ are stuck on, there will come a point where that’s going to be a massive problem, and it seems that time is coming pretty quickly. So figuring out how to explore and expand just beyond earth would be pretty important to the long term survival of the species.

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- trebor_project@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Despite the best efforts of Humans, the Earth will always be better for life than Mars or the Moon ever could. I guess ‘long term’ is a long time but the biggest danger to Human life is still Humans.
  
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