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>>8199979
>Elon says: "It's for a human civilization back-up". We all know that Mars colony won't be self-sufficient in over 100 years and terraforming Mars will take thousands of years.
...and?

Gotta start somewhere... Given the number of things that can wipe out the biosphere, and the fact that we discover two or three more every decade, and every once in awhile, INVENT a new one, it seems rather prudent to get on that shit as fast as you can.

You know, unless you're like most folks who don't give a shit about anything that's going to happen after they're long dead, despite they themselves only exist because previous generations were more forward thinking, and doing crazy ass multi-generational shit like building cathedrals and funding the exploration the new world... Or you're one of those anti-natalists who think we're better off dead.

But yeah, if you give even the slightest flying fuck about humanity or the story of life on earth in general, then inter-planetary colonization is going to be a priority, regardless of how long it's actually going to take. It's a long term plan, but like all long term plans, it doesn't happen by itself. It takes many generations of forward thinking people determined enough to quell the naysayers and make it happen.