When we were newly possessed of children and had almost no money at all, we used to enjoy occasionally a “poor man’s G&T”. That is an ordinary G&T but without the gin.
Fortunately those days are in the past and I noticed that when my kids were grown up, they seemed to skip the “too poor to buy alcohol” stage entirely!
If i may be so bold as to state the obvious…these people are simply out to make a name for themselves by pontificating about outrageous or novel ideas or fantasies.
If he/she was really so smart he/she would be turning his/her enormous intellect on understanding the immediate and more pressing concern about how humanity can live on this planet without making it uninhabitable for humans.
It would be impossible to shift the entire world population from Earth to Mars… you can do the maths and we couldn’t even cope with the rate of new births let alone the intrinsic populous. Mars needs to be thought of as our backup and since it will take perhaps 50 to 100 years to get a true self-sufficient working colony we need to be getting our bums in gear now!
Of course not the entire human population… It would be all the rich people plus as many subervient to them that they think they need to do the menial work, to establish a colony so the human race can continue, even if everyone left back on Earth perishes. Alternatively the first ships would contain all the essential workers as described by Douglas Adams in Hitchiker’s Guide…
@Mike_S our English friends aren’t going to be too happy when they wake this morning. An Italian boat with an Aussies helmsman beat them in the Americas Cup today.
I’m still mulling over a power amp before last orders. I think my dealer will service existing clients. But I can’t escape the feeling it’s like boarding the train when you know it’s about to de-rail…