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With unlimited resources, I’d solve the fundamental bottleneck holding back our species: getting off this single planet and establishing a true space-based civilization - colonizing our solar system.

Along the way we’ll be solving for energy, jobs, resources, environment and existential risk.

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I for one love this planet and would never want to leave it for an existence on life support in a hostile environment, fully dependent on technology.

What do you propose to do with life on Earth while you put all your unlimited resources into your flight plan, let it burn?

Our lives are already nearly fully dependent on technology. Some of the projections for casualties in the months following a high-altitude EMP (or solar flare) are pretty staggering. Just losing computers means that most people die of starvation within a few months as global supply chains completely collapse.

And you're being unnecessarily adversarial. The comment you're replying to didn't say anything about disregarding the well-being of life on Earth. Interpreting it that way is uncharitable.

True, my comment implied more than was actually said.

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