We're Fucked Let's Go To Space!

Hey kids want to try a fun little experiment? Gather up a few people and lock them in a room, make sure the room is airtight and there is not enough food to keep everyone alive for a longer than  a few months, then record your findings. If you have trouble finding people to volunteer for this just tell them there will be caught on camera, then you should have no trouble finding people to participate in this nonsense. This is the six billion dollar project a private space exploration firm and a Dutch reality TV producer is putting together. They're going to send people on a way one-way trip to Mars so we can watch them die here on Earth. Now that's great TV. Some of the best and brightest have volunteered to be shot off into space and one of them, a student of astrophysics had this to say; "The future of humanity is in space." The implications of this statement are staggering. Ok, the Earth is in trouble. Actually it's screwed and since we live here we are too. So the idea behind this future failure is we need to colonize space and we need to do it fast!  Here's the problem we'll never colonize space. Doesn't anyone understand what a hairbrained idea it is to leave a habitable, well at least habitable for now planet for the cold embrace of a dusty red rock with no atmosphere? That's like saying we'll I burned down the Amazon so I'm just going to try my luck out in Death Valley. Its not going to work. It's not just me saying it's not going to work either. All the people who actually signed up for this trip already know they're going to die! Hey, guess what people die in space did you know that? Well, a few billion is being spent to figure that out. Just think about that when you're family can't get food because a biblical drought wiped out agriculture in half the country.

The denial here is staggering. The solutions no longer even need to make sense. Instead of facing our problems rationally this species has decided to throw away its future on a ridiculous fantasy. It's like the radical Muslims who believe they'll get 72 virgins after blowing themselves up. These people are sacrificing themselves for the even more ridiculous idea that humanity has a future in space.