Avi Loeb

is not, would not exist forever.

By the way, when people talk about climate, global climate change and so forth, they don't realize, you know, the issue is not the earth.

The issue is humanity, the future of humanity.

And you know, the earth itself would be very likely based on detailed calculations, it will be engulfed by the sun in 7.6 billion years.

And here is something that you won't find much discussed.

The moon, because of the friction on the envelope of the sun, will crash back to Earth.

And then the Earth will move all the way to the center of the sun.

Nothing will be left.

No monument will survive forever.

7.6 billion years ago into the future.

And we have an obligation, if we want to be remembered in cosmic history, we have an obligation not to go to Mars.

That's not really a great vision.

Going to Mars is just like you have a group of chimpanzees

living in the jungle, you know, on some trees and they have some bananas and so forth.

And then one of the chimpanzees looks far, far away into the horizon and says, oh, look up there, there is another region that we can go to.

And actually it's clear that there are no bananas there.

So the same is about Mars, you know, like Elon says, let's go to Mars to save humanity, but it's actually not a great place to be on.

So here is my point.

Okay, here's your point.

It makes much more sense for us to invest in building a platform in space that can accommodate humans, not rely on another rock that happens to be near us with much worse conditions.