Jurassic Park star Sam Neill says he is now cancer free
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@LNGFrankie@Truthful_ast I feel like in that case terraforming will come an awfully long later then what a lot of people’s more hopeful estimates have been. I feel that martians ever having that independence from earth is a big enough stretch, honestly
@HipernovaStar@Truthful_ast Mars has existed, and consequently been in the state it currently is, for a long time, and I find it beautiful, no? This is a planet we have so much to learn from still and I’m not entirely sure I like the idea of turning it into something else entirely to support human life
@HipernovaStar@Truthful_ast I think my previous point still holds up, though, I don’t see the want to put men on Mars with so much risk involved; it’s hard enough putting a rover on the surface. This one’s also immensely subjective (as is everything else) but I don’t fancy the idea of defiling mars for life
@HipernovaStar@Truthful_ast I feel like when it comes to Martian science it should be more fixated on collecting and returning more and more data. From my point of view, we stand to gain little from humans on Mars. Maybe there’s something I’m missing but I just do not see the appeal it
@rexthundercock Listen man I’m already balancing like seven different conversations idk if I can do any more let’s just like I dunno pick this up some other day
@HipernovaStar@Truthful_ast I get the idea of it but that doesn’t change much for those first few voyages; unless you’re suggesting that the first manned launch doesn’t happen until mars is terraformed
Which I can get behind !!
@SpaceNotJohn@Truthful_ast Well it’s also a case of crew; you need to produce EVA suits and basically everything else necessary to uphold a celestial base, not to mention find hundreds of people willing to actually go and have the mental fortitude to withstand it
@moose_good@Truthful_ast Yeah but I feel like the conversation is stationed around the optimistic hope for Martian colonies so that’s what I’ll typically base my counter-arguments off of; though I truthfully don’t subscribe to the idea of a Mars colony happening any time soon