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We’ve recreated that online. There was a brief golden age when only the early adopters were online with visions of a digital utopia and now it’s just like real life but crazier.

The same thing will happen if we go to mars. It will just be the same stuff just on another planet.

Wherever you go, there you are.

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The people of Mars would likely be somewhat different from the people of Earth, since they'd be so heavily influenced by whatever idiosyncrasies they inherited from the first colonists.

If there are genetic propensities to whatever would make someone healthy enough to travel to Mars, intelligent enough to run the machines, yet disconnect enough from Earthbound society that they wouldn't mind leaving the planet, that is what Martians would generally be like.

funny you say this. i was reading about peri wigs the other day. and apparently washington didn't wear one. he fashioned his hair that way. I guess he didn't have syphilis and wanted to fit in.

It’s true but you’re skipping over the early golden age that mars will also have. Life is surfing and early golden ages are the waves.

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