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Mars fans anticipate trading only known habitable planet for world where any unprotected human would immediately perish (www.thebeaverton.com)

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Fries is just as confident about the eye-watering price Musk wants for a trip to Mars. “I’m slapping down my hundred grand as soon as that fortune a Nigerian prince left me arrives. The future is so bright, I need sunglasses.”

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[–] plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

space is so terrible that in order to be a better option than Earth, one calamity won't do. An Earth with climate change and nuclear war and, like, zombies and werewolves is still a way better place than Mars.

From A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's really people out there called Weinersmith, huh?

[–] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Formerly known as Zach Weiner and Kelly Smith. They compounded their last names when they got married.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

A family of blacksmiths from Wien, what's odd about that?