A recent convert to the Republican party? Also known as the conservative party? As in, we should conserve what is good and noble, such as the state of our water supply?
Going to Mars? Like Elon Musk? A conservative so new, that the ink on his admittance papers isn't even dry. A conservative who will in all likelihood, stop being a conservative when Trump seriously addresses H1B visas for Indians because it is unprofitable for him. Speaking of highly complicated chemistry and rapid expansion to other planets, what about fusion power? If we expand too quickly then we might just end up exporting fission reactors to other planets. I'm sure there's no way that can go wrong. Imagine a core melt combined with an unpredictable foreign planet's nature. Imagine being in the colony where that happens, slowly dying of radiation poisoning because Elon Musk really wanted to go to Mars.
I don't know about everyone else but I don't really give a shit about Mars. There's nobody on Mars for me to care about. There are however many people on Earth that I do care about, and I would really prefer if they were not exposed to manmade carcinogens in their drinking water. The chemicals are fake and gay? Actually what I think is fake and gay is the so called safe limit for exposure to them. If you think they're all fake and gay, go ahead and slap an old Teflon pan down on the high heat setting. Just crank up the dial and cook on it. I'm sure the chemicals won't break down at high temperature and literally poison you, it will just be great.
