In a recent address at Starbase, SpaceX’s Elon Musk provided insights into the state of the private spaceflight giant. Musk, speaking to his employees, highlighted SpaceX’s remarkable achievement of completing a record 96 space missions in 2023. Stay tuned for more updates on the future of space exploration.
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Elon Musk is NUTZ!! He DOES hire amazing engineers, but he's not doing the actual work!! Mars is about as hospitable as the moon. It's all his launches tat are polluting earth.
I'm in favor! The sooner the better, as long as he goes along for the ride. I'm tired of his petulant, childish, cult leader behavior. Yes he is an excellent engineer, but who appointed him savior of the human race, political communications authority, and grand arbiter of morality? He can leave tomorrow, and take Putin and Trump with him. We'll muddle through without them. He can leave his money here or take it with him if it makes him feel better.
I will be the first guy to go on his trip to Mars
A Mars exploration base is eminently possible, but a thriving civilization? Not a chance.
Mars has 38% of Earth's gravity which will almost certainly impact a species that evolved in a 1G field in ways we have yet to determine.
Mars has no magnetic field, so almost no protection from the sun's radiation or from cosmic radiation.
Mars has an atmosphere but not much of one. Certainly, meaningful terraforming would take thousands of years. It's not even proven that Mars could retain an atmosphere due to the amount of radiation and the low gravity. In other words, you might generate atmosphere but at the cost of your water supply; only to see that atmosphere bleed into space.
Mars has almost no water; yes it has water at the poles but by comparison to Earth has almost no water. The cost of sustaining humans will be astronomic, so anyone brought up in the colony Musk envisages will be a virtual slave working to pay just for their life support and nourishment.
If you want the human species to have a 'second chance' option for when we render our world uninhabitable, you should be looking to the asteroid belts where we can mine minerals, collect water, and create wheels in space to generate artificial gravity. THAT would make far, far more sense than trying to colonize Mars.
P.S. Hey Musk, have you considered attaching atomic motors to Venus and using the atmosphere as propellant? By the time Venus is far enough away from the sun to have a decent climate, much of the atmosphere will have been expended. Then, at least, you'll have a planet with 0.9 Earth gravity. At present, Venus has no magnetic field, but if you can cool the mantle, it is possible than in less than 100,000 years a core convection process might initiate, creating a protective magnetic field. As crazy as this sounds, it is actually less crazy than Musk's plan of colonization.
And no, Space 1999 wasn't cheesy… it just looks dated.
The only reason to abandon earth for Mars is so rich, self-obsessed, greedy narcissist like Musk can continue to pursue psychotic "unending growth".
Fix the planet we have, and allow the population to slowly and naturally shrink a bit. Those alive will enjoy enhanced quality of life as the planet's resources are able to sustain and maintain. Degrowth serves us. Constant growth is killing us and the planet.
He's just as cringe as he was 30 years ago.
Best wishes!
❤ incredible achievements.