<story><title>Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species</title><url>http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&amp;#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...&lt;p&gt;Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&amp;#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jncraton</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  It is not the critic who counts;
  not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
  or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
  whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
  who strives valiantly; who errs,
  who comes short again and again,
  because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
  but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
  who knows great enthusiasms,
  the great devotions;
  who spends himself in a worthy cause;
  who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
  and who at the worst,
  if he fails,
  at least fails while daring greatly,
  so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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<story><title>Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species</title><url>http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/space.2017.29009.emu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eerie</author><text>Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O&amp;#x27;Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert first, or lets solve world hunger and poverty (which is a 100% political problem, not technological, BTW) blah, blah, blah, blah...&lt;p&gt;Musk is doing SOMETHING, at least. The technology that SpaceX develops can and will be used for much more than just Elon&amp;#x27;s particular vision of Mars colony.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>This. For about the cost of a NASA rocket testing facility that wasn&amp;#x27;t even used once [1], these guys built and flew not just the first fully private rocket ever but also an upgraded one that&amp;#x27;s competitive to the largest launchers currently on the market [2]. Just give these people some money, at least they&amp;#x27;re spending it efficiently.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;swampland.time.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;the-nasa-launchpad-to-nowhere&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;swampland.time.com&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;the-nasa-launchpad-to-n...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;14379&amp;#x2F;nasa-cost-estimating-and-falcon-9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;space.stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;questions&amp;#x2F;14379&amp;#x2F;nasa-cost-es...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>