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We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. (fediscience.org)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

He meant the budget spent on space is enormous and there are more urgent priorities on Earth solve so he does get it.

We already have Mars populated by human-made robots, and one going to Europa moon, terraforming means you're thinking of making it habitable for humans, a huge difference from sending robots to do researches to understand better the moons/asteroids/planets.

The point you try saying his argument which seems against billionaires to be invalid instead of arguing against any other point he made just points out your focus is being an apologist for the wealthy to keep doing what they do best, starve and explore everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's private wealth, not government funding. They're free to use their wealth how ever they see fit as long as it's legal.

Ad-hominem is not argument to the contrary either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Great argument for and example of how the US government isn't taxing wealth nearly enough, if we have homeless people and billionaires funding sci fi fantasies for their own amusement in the same country.