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hatrack

(59,594 posts) Sun Nov 13, 2022, 10:36 AM Nov 2022

A Succinct Summary Of The Absurdity Of "We'll Just Colonize Mars!!"

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A Succinct Summary Of The Absurdity Of "We'll Just Colonize Mars!!" (Original Post) hatrack Nov 2022 OP

Imagine Elon Musk in charge of your oxygen supply C_U_L8R Nov 2022 #1

Unimaginable wealth infecting a person like musk obviously NoMoreRepugs Nov 2022 #2

Selling the air we breathe is fiction (partially, anyway) mn9driver Nov 2022 #3

C_U_L8R

(45,025 posts)

1. Imagine Elon Musk in charge of your oxygen supply

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Sun Nov 13, 2022, 11:11 AM

Nov 2022

Someone said that here. It's a scary and profound word of warning.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,481 posts)

2. Unimaginable wealth infecting a person like musk obviously

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Sun Nov 13, 2022, 11:16 AM

Nov 2022

produces a belief one is smarter and can see things no one else can comprehend.

mn9driver

(4,428 posts)

3. Selling the air we breathe is fiction (partially, anyway)

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Sun Nov 13, 2022, 12:07 PM

Nov 2022

But selling the water that we drink is rapidly becoming reality. As the desert southwest begins to lose the Colorado River and water restrictions are being implemented, there is no restriction on pumping out the region’s groundwater.

And it is being pumped out.

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