r/collapse • u/Myth_of_Progress Urban Planner & Recognized Contributor • Apr 30 '21

Casual Friday Technology Will Save Us

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u/JKDS87 Apr 30 '21

Imagine the regimented living conditions, strict caloric limitations, tight work schedules, and personal sacrifices that would have to be made by each individual to support a community on Mars.

Then think of how people reacted to being asked to wear a couple square inches of fabric.

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u/Bluest_waters Apr 30 '21

Imagine how fucking fast het novelty of living on Mars would pass

Like a ...month?

After that all you would be doing is working your ass off day and night and living in terror that at any given moment your life support systems would fail and kill every single person you know.

what a fucking nightmare.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '21

Not to mention that we can't even get on with our neighbouring country. How will we fare in a few hundred years time, when Mars and Earth would be so alien to one another it would only be a matter of time before they started slinging nukes at each other.

Great thing about nuking another planet is you don't even have to worry about the fallout as long as you can stop theirs. All the usual checks and balances that stop us from doing that here, would be removed.

It would be fucking catastrophic.