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   James Gleick (gleick@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 12:26:56 JST James Gleick

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   “This doofus's birdbrained space-colony takes are important to know … Capitalist society permits such profound inequalities of wealth and power, and the U.S. has allowed its public sector to lapse into such abysmal decay, that Musk exerts a terrible gravity on the world around him: … Whatever pit he wants to throw his money into, some appalling volume of the world's resources and human labors will follow it down.

   "Those labors will be, for the people doing it under Musk, basically suicidal.”

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     James Gleick (gleick@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 12:26:57 JST James Gleick

     This is a persuasive demolition of the fantasy of humans settling on Mars. Though I resent the snark aimed at the much-maligned Ian Malcolm, for whom I have a place in my heart.

     https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars

     #Mars

     Elledeeay repeated this.