Here is a good read...
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
Gee, why let fundamental facts of physics and the relative frailty of most* terrestrial life forms ruin such a delightful fantasy?
Now, some of the Jovian moons, though?
*tardigrades and cockroaches perhaps excepted? 🙂
Now, some of the Jovian moons, though?
*tardigrades and cockroaches perhaps excepted? 🙂
Mars is just a way for him to avoid dealing with problems on earth.
I hope he goes soon, and the sooner, the better.
I hope he goes soon, and the sooner, the better.
Colonizing Mars does seem like some kind of a science fiction phantasy, but then, so was going to the Moon. Humanity will get there someday, but given how long it took to go back to the Moon, I see no chance Mars colonization will happen in Musk's lifetime. And before we dream of terraforming the planet, we'll have to learn some basics here on Earth since our efforts so far have proven to be an unmitigated disaster.
Yeah, let’s learn how to un-phuque what we’ve done to this world in only a few centuries before our hubris leads us to trying to “terra form” any others. On this one, we’ve only got Mother Nature to contend with, beyond the Van Allen belts is open season on humankind.
Not his dream, he wants a libertarian civilization with his genetics in the population.
He's a megalomaniac.
He's a megalomaniac.
My 1929 encyclopedia has a sidebar article that explains why we will NEVER set foot on the Moon... They hadn't heard of Goddard. I hope I live long enough to see it happen.
Who hasn't dreamt of going to Mars?
Me.
I dream of going back to Naples or some city on the coast of the Adriatic to sip Turkish coffee and Rakya, or maybe wander the streets of Seoul again and eat fried potato pancakes from a street vendor.
Musk has no soul, going to Mars for him is a way to find one.
Me.
I dream of going back to Naples or some city on the coast of the Adriatic to sip Turkish coffee and Rakya, or maybe wander the streets of Seoul again and eat fried potato pancakes from a street vendor.
Musk has no soul, going to Mars for him is a way to find one.
The colonization of mars will never happen. At least not in our lifetime. And the best Elon Musk can do for the mankind is to go to the moon or mars himself.
He does make that rather easy, doesn’t he?
ICG: yup long before the “soft landing” on the one way trip the red planet, I’m sure there’ll be a “Oopsie”
I well remember the Apollo moon landings and watched the first landing on the moon live on TV. Had we continued to devote the resources to the manned space program that it took to get to the moon I am pretty sure we would have made it to mars and beyond by now. I am not sure how many here were old enough to remember, but it was a time of immense excitement; then they cancelled the Apollo program and essentially the manned space program. I never expected it would be nearly 5 decades before someone picked up the gauntlet.
I hope I live long enough to see it happen, but I am old enough that unless it happens in the next decade or so I will probably be preoccupied with more earthbound concerns.
I would not be surprised if Musk goes to Mars at some point, but I doubt very much he would stay. I once regarded him as a champion of innovation and science, and that is undoubtedly true, and I still think the Tesla stunt was pretty cool. (Orbiting earth) Unfortunately I am at this point quite otherwise disappointed.
I hope I live long enough to see it happen, but I am old enough that unless it happens in the next decade or so I will probably be preoccupied with more earthbound concerns.
I would not be surprised if Musk goes to Mars at some point, but I doubt very much he would stay. I once regarded him as a champion of innovation and science, and that is undoubtedly true, and I still think the Tesla stunt was pretty cool. (Orbiting earth) Unfortunately I am at this point quite otherwise disappointed.
The first sentence in the link of post 1, said all we need to know.
Worth repeating. It would be interesting to see how history remembers him.
Musk wants to breed humans there to be suited to the environment on Mars.
And to have his eugenics-approved genes. And to be hybrids with computers.
And to have his eugenics-approved genes. And to be hybrids with computers.
Musk doesn't want a soul. He wants to validate the emptiness that has always been within him.
Without a magnetosphere, there will be no life beyond a good ol’ solar mass ejection.
Anyone who thinks otherwise has not watched Discovery channel recently.
Anyone who thinks otherwise has not watched Discovery channel recently.