If WW3 happens anytime in the next 100 years, a colony on Mars would not survive because they would eventually stop receiving shipments of earth made tech. For example, replacement IC's or other silicon wafer based technology. Not like you are going to see a fab built on Mars in the first 20-50 years of a Mars colony.
It probably won't survive, but it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be tried for all different sorts of reasons. We don't know when a danger will occur or materialize, but we should begin to make sure our eggs are spread out as soon as possible to have the highest odds of survival as species.
Well yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if Starlink was for nuclear?
Why am I being downvoted here?
US, Europe, west, and democracy in general, at current times needs to be 100% at its game on the most significant power in human history.
Ultimately dictatorship is not going to give up, and they want to prove democracy is wrong, and at some points nuclear weapons are going to be used for that.
We are at pre-war right now. But it's a matter of time for all of it to escalate to all out war. We must be prepared for it.
Humanity cannot attain harmony because disparity exists. People are different, we have different beliefs in how rule should be attained and held, and we are willing to fight each other to the death to prolong that way of life. The concept of "perfect order" is nonsense, because it would require so much concentrated bigotry that nothing would possibly ever change or be unique. There is no harmony for us to reach, besides the mutual acceptance that we exist in constant resource competition with our fellow man. That's all there is.
Elon Musk isn't your savior, he's a fickle authoritarian that would destroy society like he destroyed his own image, if he got the chance. You guys need to stop obsessing over the same three popular celebrities and move on, this stuff is embarrassing (even by HN standards) and a waste of both our time. Send it to TMZ and get ignored by them, if you're desperate for attention.
There is no harmony at current state, because that is how natural selection has developed us. Although it would still be better if democracy ruled the World rather than dictatorship together with democracy. Elon Musk is not the saviour, but none the less the goals he set make sense. The other part of your reply is quite ugly unbased attacks from you.
No. Climate change will be bad but won't render Earth uninhabitable. It probably won't even be as bad as any of the major mass extinctions we know about. WW3 is not assured, and all the major powers understand why nukes are a terrible idea. Even if things go hot between US/CN I bet it'll stay conventional.
Furthermore if those disasters do happen, they will surely kill a martian colony, since it won't actually be independent of earth for decades, in terms of spare parts, genetically viable population, etc, even if they do manage to grow their own food and oxygen.
