Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth.
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Well, I would be glad if he would do it in person - and stays there.
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By having an earth that sustains the peasantry and actually working on being able to live on Mars so they can look down on them without suffocating?
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I think the (ideal) future looks more like an accelerated Orion's Arm, where humanity-changing technologies take over.
Again thatās what Iām getting at. We will never be colonizing Mars as squishy humansā¦ Weāll be augmented, modified, interfaced with mechanized AI, uploaded, maybe even just mechanical intelligences, something like that. We'll be using nuclear propulsion, at least. There will be no need to worry about drinking water or breathing oxygen because that will be irrelevant.
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yeah i know, that's why i said "lol"
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Many (American) folks of mine, even more conservative ones, tend to tune out familiar news sources because they're so bad. Others are really glued to Facebook or whatever their feed of choice is.
TBH I think America (on average) just lives in a stronger information dystopia than Europe. People here don't connect social security cuts to them, or even know about Trump's/Musk's statements on it.
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This is some sci-fi fanfic level shit lmao
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Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be orders of magnitude easier. Or the South Pole. Or KÄ«laueaās open lava pit.
While it is true that you have different sets of problems to sole, nope, they are only cheaper to get to, not necessary easier to colonize, except maybe the South Pole where you just need to build something that only need to withstand the cold, which is easy enough and you could go outside without a space suite or something similar.
The problem with colonizing Mars is the cost, which have as a consequence the cost of everything you send to that place.
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eslaā¦ How many new models were made since he got in?
None. But without Tesla you would not have neither all the other models from other car companies. Tesla just started it and demostrated that it is possible to produce an electric car with a decent look (and better that some ICE cars in my opinion) at a time when most of the electric cars done by other company were just some ugly proof of concept (excluding a very few cases) to show at this or that event.
And I read somewhere that what Musk wanted from Tesla was to set the stage, as far as I remember he said that it was ok if Tesla bankrupt after setting the stage.SpaceX? They got billions to get us to Mars. They never go beyond the super easy part in rocketry, low earth orbit. Anything beyond that is where shit gets really hard and weāre still waiting. All I saw was billions of tax dollars wasted in blown up rocket after blown up rocket and SpaceX cheering nluke idiots over a blown up banana.
Considering that everyone else was not able to do even that, I would not call SpaceX a failure. And it is not that NASA did not have its fair number or launch failures, tbh.
You talk about beyond low earth orbit like something way harder, but it not really true. SpaceX put a Tesla in a orbit beyond Mars with a Falcon heavy some years ago, and they still have (and use) the Falcon Heavy.Hell, they obliterated a launchpad because btgey were dumb enough to not understand flame divertersā¦
True but they were trying to launch a rocket that nobody else even tried to build. I would say it is fair that they make some mistakes.
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No, SpaceX is objectively a failure
It was paid 3 Billion to bring us to Mars by now and by now where are we? If I'm extremely gracious, I'd say we're at 1% of that. At the rate they're going they can barely launch rockets that don't explode, and they still do stupid and dumb stuff and them brag about the minor things that went well while cheering the explosions.
Compare SpaceX to the fucking Apolo program that had to figure out everything from scratch, to do every calculation with a ruler, no good manufacturing techniques and see what they got in a decade. What did SpaceX do in this last decade?
He promised he'd make space travel 10-100 times cheaper and so far he sold it for more expensive after receiving grant after grant.
The guy is a fucking scammer. SpaceX arguably has some good engineers, but that's it. Wake me up when they manage to get a rocket in high earth orbit reliably
