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Ah yes, the memoryhole. I've brought up the Kurds to libs before and they're just like "Who??"

1. Agreed. Is it not good to hypothesize and think about these things though? We are perfectly capable of doing both. The application of these technologies could also assist in preventing climate change on our own planet.

2. Yes and no; Underwater I could agree with as there might be things out there that could be of massive scientific benefit. However, if your concern is with saving the planet...wouldn't you want the capitalists to turn their attention to the sky before they start digging in our most precious, untouched reserves of nature? Nodule mining is already causing oxygen-death events in the deeper parts of our oceans.

3. NASA and ESA aren't "billionaire pet projects". Nor was the СССР. JMG was citing ESA and NASA in the video and he isn't a politician....did you watch it? That is just outright insulting to generations of people who have furthered scientific discoveries beyond just "space" in the pursuit of reaching the skies.

Camera phones. Baby formula. Cordless tools. Three pretty major things we all have used to this day have come from "space"-funded research dedicated to furthering space travel. I'd say baby formula actually was pretty beneficial in preventing starvation and pandemics of preventable illnesses. There's more too, should I list more? I get that you don't give a fuck but that is just outright ignorant.

4. I can still agree with this and believe we should be hypothesizing, thinking of these things and trialing technologies that could also help material conditions on Earth. This isn't ignoring any of those issues.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

I feel like that statement was made for the Kurds too. That shit was literally just a propaganda blitz. Three months later U.S abandons them entirely.

From what I've heard the kurds are a bit problematic so I'm not exactly defending them but this exact kinda shit played out in Syria too.

That's the part that's depressing.

We have an option that is entirely feasible, affordable and could make small-scale inhabitation possible. Is it likely going to be done though?

Now what we have to actually tackle is reproduction and a big one is actually societal integrity. You know, how to prevent your Mars colony from becoming Bazinga-Land.

Yup! It's more so speed and cost.

You could make the "Ferro-rod" technique discussed in the video for the absolute cheapest, quickest and it's entirely possible for us to do now in our current technological development. Plus...what does Martian soil have a lot of?

For sure. They mention in the video that the soil would have to be washed. Which they mentioned is entirely possible and wouldn't be too expensive. I believe JMG makes a point that the most "expensive" part of it would be long-term inhabitance. We just really don't know how zero-gravity would affect birth, fertility, etc. Typical reproduction might not be possible.

I think a lot of people in this instance think space travel is prohibitively expensive. It is, for interstellar excursions. We also have a bad taste in our mouth simply from King Bazinga and his bullshit and the current state of capitalism that doesn't actually incentivize anything about space travel other than profit.

Here is someone who was an actual scientist-turned sci-fi writer who works with the constraints of reality and doesn't hand-wave or speculate based on "bazinga-tech" but research done by NASA and the ESA.

swamp gas

BONUS DUCKS!

Imagine...what is to be done...

Never experienced anything "supernatural" again after moving out of there. Was really weird. Perhaps, it was swamp gas.