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The picture on the left is Mars.
The picture on the right is Earth.

Mars is a desolate wasteland.
Earth is a living jewel.

Mars has nothing.
Earth has everything.

We should be focused on protecting & nurturing planet Earth.

Colonizing Mars is a fool’s errand.
11:55 PM - Sep 29, 2023
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Anton Brakhage
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I strongly disagree.

First, these are very selective examples. I can post pictures of desolate parts of Earth, while Mars has numerous resources, geographies, and features of scientific interest.

This is cherry-picking evidence for an appeal to emotion, not an argument based on facts or logic
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12:38 AM - Sep 30, 2023
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Second, the proposed "choice" between preserving Earth and going to Mars is a false one. There is no reason we cannot, or should not, do both. Mars's value is not as a replacement for Earth, which is a unique world and home to billions, even if humans are able to live elsewhere.
02:57 AM - Sep 30, 2023
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Lastly, the environmental movement has benefited tremendously from space research, and the efforts by some "environmentalists" to pit the space program against environmentalism is ill-informed and, I suspect, founded more in an emotional hostility to "modernity" than anything evidence-based.
02:59 AM - Sep 30, 2023
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