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Originally Posted by Janszoon
As much as I think people going to Mars would be cool, I'm not really sure "it would be cool" is a valid enough reason to spend billions of dollars on something. As others have pointed out, there's a lot of scientific research that's a lot more important, even if it's less glamorous.
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Considerating the issue of overpopulation and using up our resources, I think there's more to colonizing other planets than it just being "cool".
Space colonization, the possibility of terraforming planets, it's DEFINITELY something worth thinking about regarding the future and prsoperity of the human race. Maybe not a hundred years down the line, but I think we need to look beyond that as well.
We can ensure that things will be better for us a few 50 years down the line, but we should also think about what will happen to us several centuries or even millennia from now, that's by no means a trivial thing, even if it's not terribly urgent. It's something worth thinking about and investing research in.