>Are you NEET, because you should be just as busy now as you would be on Mars
Yeah, but I also live just on the edge of a major metropolitan city in a company with a global distribution infrastructure and I run an entire team, so I've failed up to a position where I don't really answer to anyone, and get to do what I want. I make a concerted effort to do "just enough" these days as a matter of pride since I could literally do nothing and no one would be in a position to bring the hammer down.
If I was a First Waver though, I'd be super invested in helping establish and expand out colony, if for no better reason than I fully expect to have, at the very least, a street or colony dome named after me for being one of the founders, you know.
Not people being worked like slaves by corporate overlords, but explorers diamond hard at the prospect of a showing a frontier that somehow thought it wasn't going to be conquered what happens when someone tells a human being "You can't live there, that's off limits."
Maybe I'm just naive but the prospect of colonization always brings out the bold, flag planting, adventure seeking, boundary pushing, fuck-you kind of individual that IS the personification of the human spirit. It's enterprise and endeavor, for no other reason than just to see if it can be done.
MARS COLONIZATION THREAD
>Maybe I'm just naive
More romanticism than anything. I'm now a farmer. I see colonization as balancing cycles and working to make those cycles self-sustaining.
>balancing cycles and working to make those cycles self-sustaining
correct mentality detected
Step 1:abandon mars/planet meme
Step 2:fall for O'Neil cylinder meme
Step 3:spacefaring civilization
>You can google it yourself, it is a valid statement.
Don't be a shit. I'm clearly better informed on this than you are. Don't tell me, "you can google [my vague and weasel-worded claims]".
> the rest of your argument [against it] reinforces that statement.
You're just so full of shit. You're arguing that the evidence leans toward Mars gravity being seriously harmful to human health than otherwise. It doesn't. It leans rather strongly toward Mars gravity being relatively easily tolerated, with some basic measures.
And if you say, "I'm only arguing that we're not 100% certain!" then you can go fuck yourself, because you never had anything to contribute in the first place, and shouldn't have posted on the subject. You can argue the "I'm just saying we're not 100% certain!" position for unicorns existing, and there's just no discussion to be had. If you're going around implying that the fractional gravity effects are going to be a huge health problem that we need some solution to, then retreating to this agnostic position when challenged, that's just being a worthless asshole.
>We only have two hard points of data.
It's true that we've only had people living in actual Earth gravity or in orbit for prolonged period of time, however, we can account for the various mechanisms by which microgravity causes harm to health, and experiment with them on Earth, for instance with prolonged bed rest experiments, and adjust the experiments to simulate fractional gravity.
We don't always have to try something specifically to have a pretty good idea of what's going to happen when we do.