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I like how you try to extricate getting to Mars as it’s own thing despite the industrial effort to do so exacerbating climate problems that are political problems.

Please, go on. I want to hear more about how thermodynamics can be waved away for “just an engineering project.”

This is what I mean. Obsession and success with engineering has titillated people to the point of blind faith. Externalities do not exist in their conceptual void. It’s become akin to unfalsifiable religious belief.

There is something wrong instigating further extreme resource exhaustion to serve boyish Star Trek pipe dreams.

There’s absolutely no guarantee he’s on the right track. Humans expanding away from Earth is as likely as us being able to rewrite the speed of light.

There’s no rewriting the fundamentals of reality. One really bad day and Mars colony is wiped out. How much damage we do here before getting there is a real concern.

There’s absolutely no reason to believe he’s on the right track

No science says “yes rockets and spreading through the stars is definitely the future for humans.”

The odds he’s just exacerbating damaging industrial feedback loops and a worse mess for the future are much higher than successful Mars colonies and extrasolar expansion coming from his efforts

Musk has publicly said a lot of things that were BS for attention and sympathy

Let’s not act like our air gapped view of him through screens can provide an accurate diagnosis of real medical conditions

Let’s not diagnose him sympathetically without evidence

He’s posting his cold brew pics to Twitter. Caffeine is a psychoactive substance that can foster manic behavior. Lack of sleep can create cognitive stability issues. Been there with both.

Who knows if he’s taken other things here and there as Mr Private Plane bounces around socializing.

Despite Twitter, how much of Elon’s life we don’t see is significant.