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Bill Nye The Science Idiot Speaks Again…
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk can forget about their dreams of colonizing and transforming Mars for human settlement, at least according to Bill Nye.
The popular science commentator told USA Today that the entire idea of making the Red Planet more Earth-like is purely the stuff of “science fiction.”
“This whole idea of terraforming Mars, as respectful as I can be, are you guys high?” Nye said. “We can't even take care of this planet where we live, and we're perfectly suited for it, let alone another planet.”
The science educator also ruled out the idea of living on Mars permanently.
“Nobody's gonna go settle on Mars to raise a family and have generations of Martians,” Nye, who appears on National Geographic Channel's series “MARS,” explained. “It's not reasonable because it's so cold. And there is hardly any water. There's absolutely no food, and the big thing, I just remind these guys, there's nothing to breathe.”
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Although the National Geographic Channel series depicts humans living on Mars, Nye doesn't agree with it.
“People disagree with me on this, and the reason they disagree is because they're wrong,” he added, noting that while scientists are even stationed on Antarctica during the cold winter months, no one lives there permanently.
Scientists have long dreamed of setting up research bases on the Red Planet. NASA even held a competition to see what such infrastructure could look like. Bezos has been a longtime proponent of space tourism and colonizing Mars via his efforts with his space exploration company, Blue Origins. Musk, who runs SpaceX in addition to Tesla, called for a colony on Mars at South By Southwest last year as a way to prevent a new dark age.
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To terra form a planet, like mars, will take at least a several centuries to make it fully habitable.
But this is using current technology.
We constraining our beliefs by trying to a figure out a
22th century problem by using 21st century technology.
So…Bill Nye should be considered an idiot because…he challenged the idea of people colonizing Mars..? He may be foolish about some things, yet he seems to understand the reality of this intent fairly well.
I think Bill Nye is NOT a science guy. He has a degree in engineering, NOT science, his ego is larger than his education level. If you want a real scientist get Dolph Lungren (hope I didn’t butcher his name too badly). The guy who played in the Rocky movies. He has a PHD in science.