Muad'zin
Fractal Fanatic
People will just use it to yell at each other online, watch crazy cat vids and free porn. After all, Steve Jobs thought the smartphone would make us smarter, but it only made us even more stupid.He is good at making money.
He is a humanitarian and probably will offer Starlink at a extremely inexpensive price. It's to spread education around the world in increase people's IQ and help them catch up to modern society.
Would take 500 years to build a base on Mars?
If we can't advance to the next level till we fix our current problems Alexander the Great should never have set out for Persia, Columbus never to cross the Atlantic. hell, the first cavemen who left Africa should have stayed put too. There's always stuff to fix first. And you know what? Its not the dreamers like Musk who want humanity to reach for the stars who are stopping us from solving our current shit, IT'S US! As Lewis Black said, we could have had clean renewable energy, we chose instead to pour our best and brightest in mobile phone technology, social media and addictive apps. And let us never forget how much more gets wasted in the military industrial complex to build shit that blows other shit up.This is such a distraction from the work that needs to be done on Earth.
Radiation will cook humans on the journey, they still haven't figured that part out.
A dream to terraform Mars because we are screwing up our planet is so backwards. Get those "smart" people working on the real dangers.
This fosters a careless attitude about Earth.
If we really want to save our planet we should HEAVILY invest in space technology because the best way to save our planet is get humanity off it so we can turn it into a nature reserve. We got to terraform Mars, turn the Moon into an industrial zone, put O'Neill cylinders all over the place and start sending colony ships to other stars. If only for a simple reason, the sun is slowly getting hotter as it gets older. 600 million years tops all life on Earth will die as a hotter sun will cook the planet anyway. By that time that backwards terraformed Mars is going to look mighty appealing.