@pzmyers the degree to which they’re ideologically predisposed to help out fascists, even when it’s bad for business, is alarming.

@pzmyers Reminded me of the original Total Recall movie where the villain shuts of the oxygen to a sector on Mars

@pzmyers Using Antarctica as an analogue is great because it both takes away the sci-if mysctisism of Colonizing Mars, while also giving the thought experiment so many advantages over Mars.

Not just water and air pressure, but things like solar radiation, power generation, electrostatically-charged wind-eroded perchlorate-laden fines…. Mars is an incredibly hostile environment.

@pzmyers I've met a few aspirational believers: they acknowledge his claims are exaggerated or even ludicrous, but believe that he's leading humanity to something greater just by dreaming big. Sure blowing up the moon is a pipe dream, but think of all the scientific wonders we'll create trying to figure out how!

@pzmyers I think some of my brain cells just made a trip into that black hole after reading about this