Alice

Creating my own .Work hard. Travel often. Live fully

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

Nobody really gives a f×××

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “Eric Trump is a really good builder. He has the gene. He has the gene that I have. I have my gene. Eric really has it.”

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@SpeakerJohnson You got yelled at today, huh?

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@SKYRIDER4538 @WhiteHouse How much do you have to pay?

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@RudyHavenstein Aw

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@elonmusk You go first

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

The Martian soil is toxic enough to give a chemist night sweats. Perchlorates everywhere—poison baked straight into the dirt. The kind of stuff that shuts down your thyroid and leaves you coughing up the last of your optimism. Then there’s the radiation, the unfiltered cosmic shrapnel slicing through flesh and bone because Mars has the magnetic shielding of a dead AA battery. None of this is a “solving problem.” It’s not a puzzle. It’s a planetary death certificate written in red dust.

And we already have the verdict from Earth itself. Biosphere 2—our grand rehearsal—lasted about as long as a cheap marriage. Oxygen levels crashed, the crew cracked, microbes devoured the concrete, and that was on Earth, with breathable air and emergency supplies a few steps away. They couldn’t even make it in a glass bubble on paradise. They failed in arm’s reach of the real world.

So imagine the punchline: we can’t keep a handful of people alive in a sealed dome on our own planet, but somehow we’re going to pull it off on a frozen wasteland a year’s travel away? One ship malfunction, one crop failure, one filter clog, and you don’t get a rescue—you get a eulogy delivered by a robot with a weak signal.

If we can’t survive isolation here, the delusion that we’ll thrive there isn’t vision.
It’s madness dressed in a spacesuit.

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

The grand pronouncement—become multiplanetary or die—has all the intellectual nuance of a street preacher with a sandwich board.

It is a false dichotomy dressed up as cosmic destiny, the sort of Manichean ultimatum that hopes urgency will compensate for its lack of sense. In economic terms, it is the equivalent of mortgaging the world to buy a lifeboat for a ship that is not sinking, while ignoring the actual leaks in the hull.

The logical fallacy is transparent: a binary where none exists. Humanity does not stand on a precipice with Mars on one side and oblivion on the other. The choice is not colonise or perish. The universe is not a Bond villain threatening us with extinction unless we bankroll SpaceX. Fallacies this crude are usually found in late-night infomercials: Act now or lose everything! Musk simply swaps the juicer for a rocket.

From an economic standpoint, the argument is worse. Investing immense capital today to pre-empt a catastrophe that may or may not occur in millions of years is not visionary—it's fiscal derangement. The fundamental principle of intertemporal economics is simple: future costs are discounted. The farther away the threat, the cheaper the solution becomes, because technology advances, efficiency improves, and knowledge compounds. Blowing present resources on an extravagance before its time is not heroism; it's waste masquerading as foresight.

And let us dispense with this romantic fantasy of becoming “multiplanetary.” We do not, at present, possess even rudimentary technology for a self-sustaining colony beyond Earth. A Mars outpost would be a fragile terrarium dependent on Earth for energy, materials, replacement parts, software, medicine, food, every conceivable input. If Earth dies, they die—slightly later, and more miserably. A colony is not an ark; it is a hospice with better branding.

What we could do, if survival is the goal rather than the mythology, is invest in real mitigation—earth-based technological fortifications, subterranean habitats, asteroid deflection infrastructure, biosphere resilience. The kind of engineering that actually protects lives rather than promoting a billionaire’s off-world brochure. These are achievable. Cheap. Scalable. And genuinely effective against existential threats.

But that would require seriousness, which is unfashionable. Instead, we are expected to swallow a future built on slogans and subsidies: pour rivers of capital into a fantasy that enriches one man while offering no material safety to the species. It is the triumph of spectacle over strategy.

So no, we do not face the cosmic melodrama @elonmusk imagines. We face a simple economic truth: premature investment in misallocated technology does not save humanity—it siphons resources away from the solutions that would. Becoming “multiplanetary” is not the choice. The choice is whether we think, or whether we let our civilisation be run like a Kickstarter campaign in the sky.

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@BBMagaMom Try not to blame an entire group of people for what a few have done

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@TheOnlyEsta Hic up!

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@furkangozukara Don't forget Greenland

[b @itsbrandonlaw]

@atrupar The instructions -

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@atrupar He is the eternal president. 😇

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@SenSchumer What is taking so long?

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@Tim_Walz Yes Sir, so is his Dhing one and Jhing two. Just ignore the boot lickers on here. Smart people know they cheated.

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

I still can't stand Evonne

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@Acyn Uhm, where were you?

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

I can not move. The fear of my sister cries out to me. I can not scream. I'm afraid someone will hear me. I can not change anything. No one will let me. I can not cry.

#peace

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@CharlieO1027 @Raebxst @larryhostawards @JoJoFromJerz It's scary to police a woman for her health care needs. Statistics are skewed anyway. And ' not mature' ? ? That's never good. We must take gov out of the uterus.

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

Hey @SenatorRomney don't forget, if it doesn't affect you then you don't worry about it. Your words. Meow.

[Alice @heidithegeorgia]

@funder Here I am!