One way trip to Mars
No return
No provision for aging or medical problems
No test of sustainability (though I certainly don’t want them to try it first with animals!)
Huge cost
No point in doing it at all
And all those resources utterly wasted at a time when there are so many problems on earth that need them.
Companies making their charity contributions to create the “World’s biggest media event ever” rather than to remedy the worst humanitarian, environmental, social and geopolitical disasters ever…
It may be potentially “fun” the way joining ISIS is (and deciding to do it no doubt involves a similar depth of reflection, as the three people in the video sample with the Onuzu article illustrate):
Chibundu Onuzuis right on every point:
It’s Reality TV for the Me generation and the Lost.
It’s based on superficial, empty, pop hype stereotypes, kleped “science” or “progress.”
And for people who think they are seeking the “meaning of life”: that’s really much simpler and closer than they think, but they are actually only thinking of themselves.
(Nobel Laureate Gerard t’Hooft seems to have gone senile, venal or loco…)