I fail to understand why he's obsessed with the idea of inhabiting a barren planet and throwing billions of dollars at it, instead of using his money to preserve this planet where there's people, trees and water already.
(EDIT: Why am I getting downvoted? Are redditors so fucking dumb that they cannot see past their hate for a little shit like Musk and see the actual scientific value of other planets? Bruh.)
The profit motive is certainly part of Musk's interest, but that's not really why governments and space agencies are interested in Mars.
Mars is scientifically valuable, and developing the ability to operate there advances technologies for long-duration human spaceflight, planetary science, resource utilization, and potentially making humanity less vulnerable to a single-planet catastrophe.
You can argue about whether Mars is worth the cost, but this whole government-subsidy scam conspiracy is just inaccurate.
Catastrophies like super meteors? How imminent is that compared to global warming (note that we'remonitoring for meteors for a while now and we have catalogues)? They both kill planets.
You really don't understand Musk at all. He's a disgusting person but he's not doing all this for some minor government subsidies. He's an idiot, he really believes in the things he says.
He has so much money that he could lose 99% of it overnight and still be richer than anyone you know or will ever meet.
At this point, he's an obsessed, probably deeply mentally ill person with an illness we don't even have a name for because there are so many people aspiring to reach his level.
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u/Klash_kop 9h ago
I fail to understand why he's obsessed with the idea of inhabiting a barren planet and throwing billions of dollars at it, instead of using his money to preserve this planet where there's people, trees and water already.