Avi Loeb

It's a desert, no atmosphere.

So let's build a space platform, go on it,

and make sure that it's safe for humans to live for long periods of time.

We can produce artificial gravity by rotation.

Now you say, well, it will cost a lot of money, but we're spending $2.4 trillion every year on military budgets.

If we were just to change our priorities and say, we want to build NOAAX spaceship in analogy to NOAAX ARC to save humanity,

from the great flood or catastrophe that will happen on Earth.

You put a fraction of this $2.4 trillion a year, and I'm willing to bet that within this century, our engineers, architects, scientists, if you put a level of funding of a trillion dollars a year for the next several decades, we will come up with a concept that can accommodate humans in space much better than Mars can.

yeah well it could be it could be if um the evolution of intelligence on mars was accelerated by a factor of two you know that's not a big factor factor of two right meaning that intelligence arose on mars right uh two billion years after it formed rather than in the case of the earth 4.5 or so right and then you know one thing i really want to do is if i ever

have a say or go to Mars, I would like to visit those caves, the lava tubes in Mars, because they are protected from the surface, you know, bombardment by cosmic rays and all kinds of things happening, the ultraviolet radiation.

So in those caves, I want to check if there are any prehistoric paintings or any technological objects there.

I completely agree with you.

A factor of two is not a big deal.

And

You can ask also whether on Earth there was a sophisticated technological civilization before us that somehow, you know, either through self-inflicted wounds or because of a natural catastrophe disappeared.

Well, I want to see that data.

I haven't seen the paper itself.

I just saw reports about it.

But definitely on Earth as well.

And the problem of Earth is that documented human history is only 8,000 years old.