Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Why Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars | Neal Stephenson and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. The timestamp is 2:10, and Lex Fridman has done it again. He's asked pertinent questions to Mr Stephenson about Musk's goal of colonizing Mars. The response was measured and clear: there's nothing there to bring back so any idea of it making money is out the window. There is radiation; unknown problems. My vote would be to go for the simple reason that if someone has the idea to colonize mars then it's going to be good for our species in ways we can't yet imagine. We have to realize that planet Earth is like a casino. We've been playing roulette, blackjack and craps for thousands of years and in spite of some heavy losses, we've always managed to more or less come back as a winner. The trouble with the universe is that it's playing with a loaded deck; it's got something coming our way that will take us back to the stone age---if we're lucky. I think every one of us has the sense that something evil this way comes. We know in our inner mind that what we have on Earth wasn't meant to last forever. Musk is a person who is tuned in to something like that---but who can really say what's going on in anyone else's mind? All we know is that it will probably be like a lot of expeditions and I won't go into that. But what I believe they should be thinking about is instead of building structures that are above ground---at least in the beginning---they should look at some of the ant colonies and immitate their way of building underground. Whole towns could be made under the surface and when the technology was up-to-speed, they could build on the surface. It may well be that they end up colonizing Phobos or the outer moon first and having sort of a 'deathstar' moon-shaped structure that would allow them to live and then descend to the planet's surface when technologies allowed. One thing we have to do is have as many outposts where our species can live and prosper. We only have to look at The Great Pyramid of Giza to realize that advanced civlizations were here and then disappeared. It could happen to us.
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