@HHH_Report@razibkhan And if he does apologize, what the hell are the odds that he's not still really racist, and therefore not someone we want wielding a lot of power?
@spacekoala I hadn't heard the perchlorate issue being raised as an objection to any human presence on Mars, I'd heard it presented as an issue for terraforming. Can we handle de-perchlorating all the martian soil enough for it to allow plants to grow?
@robinhanson I think socializing is a bit like physical exercise. We need it, but in our evolutionary environment we couldn't avoid it, so there wasn't much pressure to drive us to seek it.