andrewducker | (Reply)

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Part of the point of the article, as I read it, was that the resources to put any permanent outpost on Mars have to come from Earth, so many that it would actually accelerate making Earth less habitable. Which is morally reprehensible to say the very least... but when did that ever stop billionaires trying? If it wouldn't wreck this planet to get them there, I would say "good riddance" and "enjoy dying of radiation exposure". The "no magnetosphere" is SUCH an important point.

(The rich uploading to live forever was a plot in Revelation Space, the process killed them ...and then their uploads all got corrupted over time. EXACTLY such a fate for Musk etc. I would no cry over)

Sigh. If only they used their powers for ACTUAL good (but then likely they would not have got where they are).

I am a massive SF fan, but it IS all fiction.