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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
As a scientist I can confirm that we are never going to colonize Mars in the sense that it would be common to go there and millions or even hundreds of thousands could live there. It just makes zero sense resource-wise, it is a *blatant* lie that this is somehow realistic. 

But why the super-rich are doing it is less clear to me. I think about them as these kids who have free time during summer break and get super excited about building and pimping out a tree house. It turns out you can sort of live in the tree house, maybe even sleep over, but you end up going back to grandma's for dinner.
gpt
I’m not asking why the super rich build space dicks; I’m asking why DARPA and whatever the Chinese government’s equivalent is, are all about stroking that basic research.