Death on Mars

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2 pointsdankohn13 comments

Non-clickbait (actual) title:

"Death on Mars. The martian radiation environment is a problem for human explorers that cannot be overstated"

... yet this nonsense, also this week:

"Elon Musk drops details for SpaceX Mars mega-colony. SpaceX CEO wants to put a million people on the Red Planet by 2050."

https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-drops-details-for-spacex...

Those funds are better spent on Earth (climate | social | ... issues), raising questions to true motivations.

False dichotomy. "better spent" relates two essentially unrelated things, claiming they are exclusive (have to do one or the other).

It also suggests that Elon Musk is somehow obligated to spend his money for these other things, in a way that isn't necessarily how he sees these issues getting solved or at least dealt with. Instead of electric smart cars, electrical battery farms, solar roof tiles, communications in space, getting to space, etc, he should drop it all to spend it on this one specific thing someone completely unconnected to him or his plans decided he needs to spend it on.

The world's problems don't have a singular solution. There are many things that need to be done.

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