[brucedickinson]

Microsoft is going to cure cancer in 10 years too. It’s always 10 years. We will have AI by then and giant chickens that are mostly breast meat. Oh and space cars

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Cool! A mosque for Musk and a minaret to boot!

[Rembrandt]

Please offer first choice to Democrat politicians, esp. OButthole, Klintoon(s), Soros, Reid, etc.

[GraceG]

Too bad the fusion drive needed to get us to mars is only 20 years away....

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Despite the tough challenges currently facing his SpaceX company, Elon Musk has made clear that he’s as determined as ever to get humans on Mars in the next 10 years.

I applaud Musk's ambition and vision, I really do. But hype works best on a foundation of substantive accomplishment.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Well renaming the program from MCT to ITC is a great start. That was an essential step. Did he publish an updated org chart as well?

8 years for Apollo program to land on moon ('61 JFK speech to '69 Neil & Buzz on moon). The moon landing built on research from Mercury and Gemini programs. I don't see the same level of support or commitment for Elon.

Plus is there a national competition for Mars? What country can afford such a mission right now....

not seeing a Mars launch in 2025 happen

[Falconspeed]

Visionaries in Los Angeles built the Navajo rockets, Gemini rockets, Mercury rockets, Apollo orbiters and the best of the best: Shuttle missions. “[T]he possible outcomes for establishing a self-sustaining Mars colony” is maybe 5%. Today’s visionaries are wannabe kids compared to the engineers in the 1950’s. Why not restart the Shuttle missions and focus on increasing human lifespans around the world? Oh, I know, does not sound very glamorous.

[plain talk]

I think this guy should slow down and work on fundamentals a bit more before he gets a bunch of people killed. He is way ahead of his headlights.

[PIF]

In referenced to the image at the start of the article: the Martian sky is blue not yellow.