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2naSalit

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3. Human nature...

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Tue Dec 23, 2025, 02:30 PM

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We seem to have not overcome the lower regions of possibilities there.

And all this hype about going to Mars is just such rubbish, we will never get there and/or survive the journey let alone any time on Mars IF we got there. Not in our current physical form.

Blows my mind that people can't understand this.

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