Musk: Goal is 80K people to travel to Mars togeher, repeatedly, in 243 days by the mid 2030's (Earth, moon)
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Anyone has any idea why we need to risk human life at double the cost of what we can do with robots and drones? It used to be we needed to send people to outer space out of technological reasons, now is no longer the case.
I'd volunteer to go, but i want my own first class seat. I don't like flying between Birmingham and Atlanta in economy, much less to the freaking Red Planet. Also, are there in-flight meals? I'm glucose intolerant. Just FYI.
Working on and investing in tech to colonize planets that are not compatible with life makes less sense than working on tech to get us to planets that are compatible with life.
This colonize Mars craze is insane. Mars has 1/3rd the gravity of earth and quadruple the radiation. After three years on Mars your cancer would have cancer.
It is impossible for a human woman to bring a healthy child to term in this environment.
Plus... guess what... no water, no food, no organic material. -100 degrees at night and +200 degrees during the day.
Insane.
I really hope I live long enough to see this nonsense come to fruition. With any luck, they'll beam it "Big Brother" style back to those of us back here on earth. It will be fine for awhile, but once the food and water start to run out and the isolation combined with radiation starts to drive people mad, it won't be long until one or more of the colonists goes Shining and the whole colony degenerates into an epic parody of Lord of the Flies as the remaining colonists fight to the death for the last dwindling resources.
Facts to the contrary Columbus sailed off the edge of the world.
Insanity! to sail across the Atlantic expecting to find anything.
Sanity is, apparently, just sitting on Earth until we completely ruin the planet and quietly die off. Or perhaps in a nuclear holocaust as the remains of humanity fight over what little resources are left.
How about we take responsibility for what we're doing here before engaging in these escapist Trekie fantasies? Unless we start taking responsibility for our dysfunctional behavior as a species we'll just destroy whatever planet we infect.
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