“When you’re rich, they think you really know” – Tevye the Dairyman

Something occurred to me when I was in the pool (which is about the only place anything occurs to me), and it is this: the idea of colonizing Mars is just about the dumbest thing anyone has ever thought up. Ever. And I’m including alt-coins, Ice Capades, and molecular gastronomy in that list. It’s absolutely r-word level stupid.

Let’s take a step back and consider things from Alan Watts’ perspective, which is usually a very good idea. I am badly paraphrasing, but he hypothetically asked his audience to consider what it would be like to be God. You could do anything you want, you were omniscient, and as such, you knew everything that was going to happen before it happened.