https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=n4tgkyUBkbY<\/p>\n
One way trip to Mars
\nNo return
\nNo provision for aging or medical problems
\nNo test of sustainability (though I certainly don\u2019t want them to try it first with animals!)
\nHuge cost
\nNo point in doing it at all<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd all those resources utterly wasted at a time when there are so many problems on earth that need them.<\/p>\n
Companies making their charity contributions to create the \u201cWorld\u2019s biggest media event ever\u201d rather than to remedy the worst humanitarian, environmental, social and geopolitical disasters ever…<\/p>\n
It may be potentially \u201cfun\u201d the way joining ISIS is (and deciding to do it no doubt involves a similar depth of reflection, as the three people in the video sample with the Onuzu article<\/a> illustrate):<\/p>\n
Chibundu Onuzu<\/a>is right on every point:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Reality TV for the Me generation and the Lost.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s based on superficial, empty, pop hype stereotypes, kleped \u201cscience\u201d or \u201cprogress.\u201d<\/p>\n
And for people who think they are seeking the \u201cmeaning of life\u201d: that\u2019s really much simpler and closer than they think, but they are actually only thinking of themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n