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Depends on whether the explorers self select for survival traits.


How can one be so deeply pessimistic about survival on a planet whose atmosphere we can safely breath and whose climate will likely be more amenable to us than Mars' even in a worst-case global heating scenario, and yet remain optimistic about an independently viable Mars colony?


You mean like self selecting billionaires?




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