Stephen Kahn
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read
Courtesy YouTube Extra History.

Great exploration projects that turn out to be complete swindles and frauds when advertised prematurely are as old as our species. Hundreds of years ago many people were swindled by the South Sea Bubble.

Eventually South America was settled, colonized, and rebelled from Spain.

Mars is the South Sea bubble of our time. I will wildly guess that eventually Mars will be settled, about the time earth destroys its ecosphere and a few Homo sapiens will survive and launch nuclear weapons toward earth as well as the Oort cloud.

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