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Musk, the Movie

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  1. jfoster · · focus · HN ↗
    In the trailer, there's this line: "When Musk says that the future of humanity is to colonize Mars, he is selling us dreams. That's not happening."

    That irritates me a lot. Everything extremely difficult (or thought to be impossible) is a dream until someone (or some company) works hard on it and invests in it for a long time. Those that would criticize Musk & SpaceX for chipping away at this seem to be effectively saying "do not try."

    1. maxlin · · focus · HN ↗
      Yeah. Peak exctinctionist talk is to plainly just state we're never colonizing mars, lets instead hate on those that put immense effort to trying.
      1. IAmBroom · · focus · HN ↗
        Peak extinctionist talk is to pretend we can colonize Mars, especially without saving our planet so we have somewhere to launch from.

        Also, Mars is a pipe dream of people who know more about Star Trek than space exploration.

        1. maxlin · · focus · HN ↗
          >Peak extinctionist talk is to pretend we can go see what's beyond the mountains, especially without solving all our cave problems first, as we can only ever launch such a lofty expedition from the cave.

          >Also, going past the mountains is a pipe dream for people that know more about children's tales than _actually_ going from the cave to the nearby shore.

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