Rich People Are Going To Colonize Mars Without You

This is why the new space race is pretty terrifying.



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[VICENews]

This is why the new space race is pretty terrifying.

[kpopRC]

hold on. you thought this was going to go another way?

[btc]

The gov can go to space, do scientific research, and fix the affordable housing crisis all at the same time. The problem is that the gov doesnt want to fix the housing crisis.

[blasalvice]

How could someone blame NASA for its budget when the U.S. army budget is a thing...

Edit : Can everyone kindly stfu in the comments I really don't care about your views on the US budget

[bradrobb]

Of course interplanetary travel and space travel will be “only for the rich” it cost a fortune.

[sw]

I don’t even wanna go to Mars. I still haven’t been to London yet .

[ApparitionGroupUSA]

The 100 in real life and we are the grounders.

[mkwke]

Elon Musk is the "I'm not like other girls" of billionaires

[TheRetroLab]

They'd probably have been better off protesting the US military budget than the NASA one.

[joshthehulk]

honestly I wouldn’t mind all the rich people going to Mars. There’s no way they’re gonna survive on that planet

[caseyflynn]

"locks out everyone else" - I think Mars will have a fairly wide open immigration policy for a long time

[cmac]

Does the average person really think they were going to be living on Mars? No vice they don't.

[Silvannetwork]

I mean I would be a citizen of the „Hub“ planet

[TheRapidGamer]

"Rich People Are Going To Colonize Mars"
One person is... One...

[georgesgeorges]

*Rich people spending money to explore space* Vice: "This is why the new space race is pretty terrifying"
*War criminals get hired by congolese army* Vice: "Desperate times call for desperate measures"

You guys are absolutely disgusting.

[AbrahamLincoln]

I'm gonna prepare for a wave of political cartoons on this.

[josuem]

Except your missing the fact that only experienced engineers, pilots, and astronauts will be the only ones going in the immediate future. Perhaps Space being for the rich will be reality in 40-50 years but in these next two decades it will be exclusively to brave astronauts who will pioneer Mars and moon bases.

[MeetThaNewDealer]

Wait wasn't this the premise of the Outer Worlds

[ldIezz]

I don’t care that I’m not going to mars it’s an achievement for all of humanity

[wholesomevalentine]

Y’all making it seem like we wanna live on a dust rock far from earth 😂