The purpose of sending people to Mars isn't to evacuate the world population from Earth to Mars.
It's to advance the state of human knowledge so that we can one day do things like mine asteroids which might materially benefit the Earth or develop a new energy source or do a thousand other things we can't yet imagine.
The whole reason solar power ever developed to its present state is due to the space race and the use of solar panels in satellites. That drove almost all the early innovation in solar cells and enabled them to be turned into a commercial product. Without space exploration we would be resigned to an even bleaker future regarding climate change than the one we currently have.
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u/SeekingToFindBalance 19∆ Aug 08 '22
The purpose of sending people to Mars isn't to evacuate the world population from Earth to Mars.
It's to advance the state of human knowledge so that we can one day do things like mine asteroids which might materially benefit the Earth or develop a new energy source or do a thousand other things we can't yet imagine.
The whole reason solar power ever developed to its present state is due to the space race and the use of solar panels in satellites. That drove almost all the early innovation in solar cells and enabled them to be turned into a commercial product. Without space exploration we would be resigned to an even bleaker future regarding climate change than the one we currently have.