Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 31, 2023

Yup, Danae – we do!

YUP

I panel 5 Danae realizes she is a people

Wait until he tells her how they can try to grow potatoes over there.

To escape the Earth after we ruin it and start over, on a planet with no water, no air, no food, no way plants can grow outdoors, and 2/3rds Earth’s gravity. No outdoor activities ever either….forever indoors or stuffed into a sealed suit. Enjoy your new life living in a permanent desert as a package of meat.

I agree w/Jeffrey. No matter where we go, we’ll take our trash with us!!

S-o-o-o-o I’m guessing Danae’s next step is to somehow reduce the surplus population?

? What is at the bottom of a Dry ( Gravity ) Well ?

The problem with living on Mars is that there’s no manufacturing. You’ll be stuck with the same smartphone forever.

People are like pimples soon to pop.

The earth will expire on its own anyway, so we will still need to have other places to go. Although O’Neil tubes would be better than other planets.

I once came up with an idea for a sci-fi story about a guy who puts himself into suspended animation, with the idea that when he wakes up 500 years from now people will have gotten their act together and the world will be a paradise.

Only when he does wake up, he finds out that all the decent and wise people have followed his example and had themselves frozen as well, leaving the world in the sole control of the selfish short-sighted jerks for 500 years, so they all wake to a world that’s worse than it would have been if they’d left things alone.

If people do colonize Mars they’ll probably Musk it up.

“We have met the enemy, and he is us…” POGO by Walt Kelly.

People also cause people.

People and mosquitos. Mosquitos have killed more people than our wars have killed.

With all the technology required to make Mars a viable livable habitat, we could just use that same technology to fix Earth issues.

Be calm little Danae – it will soon end, we’re busily working on it.

Ain’t it the sad, sad truth!

May I quote Pogo again, “We have met the enemy; …

Water is cleaner, air is cleaner. The Earth is very resilient. We invent cleaner technology all the time.

Still agreeing with Danae.

“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the Earth.”

John Steinbeck, American author

“It’s the end of the world as we know it—-and I feel fine…”___R.E.M.

I have a list, of delightful people, who would do fine on Mars.

First up, a deluded old geezer with a fancy for red ties.

Nonsense ! Look who is leading the way. Musk and Bezos have nothing but the benefit of the whole of Humanity in mind. /S

The technological barriers to Mars travel are mind boggling.

Mars is a good place to found a colony. As a stop towards mining the asteroid belt and the moons of the gas giants. Suspect will be a mix of domes and underground dwellings. Unless, the idea of using a tactical nuke to jump start the core is real.

Same thing happened when people left Europe for “religious freedom” in the New World. They brought all their old hatreds with them and wrote laws discriminating against all the people they didn’t like from the old country. (Which is why the Constitution separated church and state.)

It’s like moving out to “the country” only to have subdivisions build up all around you.

Wherever people go, there they are.

As I have been saying for a very long time. Technology keeps improving, people do not.

There is abundant evidence to show that Mother Nature’s experiment with humans has been a complete and utter flop. True, there are many humans who show us what we can be at our best- the inventors of paper clips, triple-scoop ice cream cones and Jennifer Lopez come to mind. But can that relatively small handful of people redeem the rest of humanity?

Yes you do.

Sigh. Just think if the Americas had been settled by just another couple of local tribes, rather than the money grubbers we have become.

That is the logical conclusion HAL reached in 2001 a Space Odyssey.

Mars would have to be neutral like Antartica so no one tries to hog the whole planet. Otherwise we would just repeat the same problems as Earth

I’ve never considered myself a “people person.” But I have revised my opinion. I can handle people as a whole, I suppose. It’s just certain individuals I can’t stand. 8>)

Go away,I want to be alone——JON’NN JON’ZZ

And you’re one of those people!!!

And the worldview that best explains this is…

Notice how many people are anxious to colonize the Antarctic? There you get free oxygen.

Had do you destroy the earth? It is a big rock circling the sun, we can’t destroy it, and we can only mess up the environment that supports life for us.

They really do.

I don’t often agree with Danae, but she’s dead on this time.

But seriously: if NASA listened to Roberta Bondar and buit a moon base for all the money that has been spent, and being spent, on this rickety revolving space station, we would be on Mars today.

Leave the planet when it becomes uninhabitable? That’s being proposed as a real “solution”?

“When you’re outdoors and it starts raining, what do you do?”

“Run under a tree for shelter.”

“What happens when the water starts dripping thru the leaves?”

“Run under another tree.”

Does nobody see the logical flaw here?

I kind of like all the conveniences we have. Anyone seen “Naked and Afraid”?

Overpopulation strikes its ugly head…

My catch phrase has recently become “forking humans.”

Well, the WEF has all the answers !!!!!

There are a lot of answers, it is just finding the right question!

You don’t have to like the answer, but you have to accept it. People do, have ruined everything. The ONLY solution that will save the species is the drastic reduction in the number of people on the planet. Sadly it is most likely too late. Science is not going to come up with some magical solution that lets us keep breeding.

Leaving the Earth because we’ve made it uninhabitable is the worst solution of all. If we can’t keep Earth, the planet on which we’ve EVOLVED, hospitable for human life, we’ve got no business exporting the product. If/when we get our act together here, we can maybe think about taking the show on the road. You don’t put together road companies for shows that flopped on Broadway.

Mars isn’t livable without pressure suits and bring your own water, heat, food, and air.

Stay here and fix our own self trashed world first.

The earth is not a goner as media would have you believe. Such arrogance.

Hasn’t Danae heard her theme song yet?

The First Thing You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzfSmdVMxU

That last panel sure is the truth.

One of the great paradoxes of life.

Truer words were never spoken.

Yep! People as a whole cause our biggest problems.