r/nextfuckinglevel 12h ago

NASA released the clearest images of Mars

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u/welcomefinside 12h ago

Who still thinks it's a good idea to restart civilization on Mars?

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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 11h ago

It’s not about restaring a civilization. It’s is going to be either a playground for the rich or a work camp for the poor to enrich the rich.

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u/obalovatyk 11h ago

Why not both?

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u/Opening_Garbage_9052 8h ago

thats just...earth

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u/KingOfConsciousness 9h ago

Yaaaay........

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u/FederalExpressMan 8h ago

So Vegas or Dubai?

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u/JalapenoConquistador 6h ago

Did you see the video? It’s not going to be shit. This place sucks and there’s no oxygen. Anyone that thinks we’re colonizing Mars for any reason is delusional.

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u/Ok-topic-3130v2 3h ago

Genuinely, only thing to do on mars is scroll on your phone

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u/FishesOfExcellence 7h ago

Imagine Epstein’s island but even more remote and then they can try to have separate laws from Earth.

It’s Epstein’s Planet, y'all.

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u/CrazeMase 5h ago

That or two possibilities. For all we know, mars could be unbelievably rich in resources and minerals and it could be mined for all it's resources because nobody cares about mars. Or Alternatively, which this is the super unlikely option, several thousands of years into the future, if humans still exist and corruption ceases to exist, then some think it would be possible to teraform mars into being like a second earth. The only issue with that idea is that it would take an ungodly amount of resources that humans don't have available on earth, so by that point, we would need to be able to create giant holes on mars for us to fill with water since A. Mars is really flat as far as the surface goes. B. If we put water there, it would cover the whole surface pretty quickly, which water is vital to creating oxygen. There's also the issue of cooling it down during the day time and warming it up at night. So Mars would be like the final art project of humanity, a testament to our resilience and our brains, the ability to change an entire planet with some hard work and patience. It wouldn't be a project for us, or our grandkids, but it would be a project for their great great great great great great grandkids. So this is all assuming humans haven't gone extinct by then.

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u/Butthole_seizure 3h ago

How much would someone have to pay you to go to Mars and build the first infrastructural components like sewage and power, for example?

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u/del0008 9h ago

The reason why we have to go to Mars is because the sun will become a red giant. Earth will be too hot when this happens.

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u/EscapeFromTerra 9h ago

In 5 billion years...

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u/del0008 9h ago

Time flies lol it will happen though

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u/EscapeFromTerra 9h ago

Considering life has only existed on Earth for 3.5 billion years, I think we can safely focus on more pressing issues first.

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u/del0008 8h ago

You think it’ll take less than a billion years to figure out how to get to and colonize mars?

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u/ElRimshot 8h ago

Buddy 💀

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u/del0008 5h ago

I’m not your bud pal

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u/EscapeFromTerra 8h ago

Considering human civilization has only existed 6,000 years, yes, I think it will take significantly less time than that.

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u/del0008 7h ago

That’s the mindset that will have us believe we have time. Then if it were to happen sooner then later we aren’t prepared. It’s a real problem that will happen we do need to solve it. Even if Mars is taken over by same red giant event, what’s humanity going to do.

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u/EscapeFromTerra 1h ago

You don't know enough about what you're talking about to even have an opinion on the subject.

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u/FishesOfExcellence 7h ago

The chance that humans will not have killed ourselves in a thousand years, much less a billion, are pretty small. 

Also, Mars is going to be baked to a crisp by the very event that you’re saying will destroy Earth and thus requires Mars to be colonized.

Also, planning for something a billion years in the future when we can’t properly predict 10 years in the future is a foolish idea.

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u/del0008 7h ago

Even if it’s not Mars, the sun will become a red giant one day. We need to figure out what’s next. It’s not a prediction it’s the natural outcome of the sun.

u/FishesOfExcellence 17m ago

Bro, you clearly don’t understand a billion years. To human timescales, it’s essentially infinity. Most people are aware of what the sun is predicted to do eventually. But it’s a non-problem. Will you also work on an escape plan for the heat-death of the universe?

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u/AEROK13 6h ago

...the sun will become a red giant one day. We need to figure out what’s next.

You've been told several times in this comment chain that it will be BILLIONS of years. Humans will be wiped out by an ice age before we reach anywhere near half a million years.

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u/del0008 6h ago

If it’s going to happen in billions or not, it’s going to happen. Why not solve the problem early and coast after?

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u/AEROK13 6h ago

You are an expert at selective reading.

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u/del0008 5h ago edited 5h ago

Fair enough. Ice age might wipe us out not in our lifetime maybe we should tackle that first.