mars

I'm often baffled by the rich, they say and do things that make me thing they are just profoundly stupid, like for instance elon musk's thing about the universe or something likely being a simulation. Of course who knows what's going on with reality, but where do you get 'likely' from? Like how fucking stupid can you be?

But, there's always also the chance that they're not so dumb and are putting up some sort of absurd front to hide their heinous truer selves. and I suspect this about the plans to leave the earth, colonize mars, etc, from musk and bezos and others. 

the impending climate shit is so shocking and hateful, but even if the absolute worst comes to pass, the earth will still be a million times more habitable than mars. Leaving earth to inhabit mars or outer space or anything is just beyond stupid. It's hard to express how much less hospitable anything other than earth is, even compared to antarctica or the sahara.

So why go so far as to develop tech and strategies for these things for places as wildly uninhabitable as mars, when earth is sitting right here? My guess is that these guys aren't being stupid, they're just masking the development of bunker technology intended for use on earth when/if shit gets really bad. 

This makes the most sense to me, though I'm open to other thoughs