Elon Musk Reveals His Plan for Colonizing Mars (Full presentation plus Q&A - Video)

Bloomberg (youtube) ^ | Sep 27, 2016

[cgbg]

I do not believe we are “ordered” to stay away.

We were simply told that any humans landing in forbidden areas would be annihilated.

It is, of course, coincidence, that we have stayed away from those areas. :-(

The quarantine will be lifted when we devise methods and systems to stop sociopaths from rising to the top of human organizations.

[cynwoody]

If Musk were proposing mining asteroids, I’d be all for it. Going to Mars? Why?

Duh! Because, sooner or later, Earth will die, along with any humans still residing there.

Musk proposes a solution, albeit temporary (if Earth is gone, can Mars be far behind?).

If he comes anywhere close to implementing his dream, his paragraph in the history of mankind will be guaranteed (long after most humans alive today have been relegated to footnote status).

He aspires to be the first human to have started the process of humans colonizing extraterrestrial properties!

[DBrow]

I think that asteroid colonization will be more sustainable than Mars colonization, just because there are more reachable resources in asteroids and comet heads.

Mars will be easier because you’ll have gravity and it’s not in vacuum, making engineering easier, but if there is not enough water or fissionables you have to go get them.

So build up the orbital colonies first then expand down to Mars, which will then have a constant supply of water and metals, where construction will be easier than in space and it’s not as punishing to launch.

With that combination we can reach for a star, assuming we still need stars at that point.

[dr_lew]

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

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From They're made out of meat

[hal ogen]

I’d like to pay less in taxes...fees...and so forth. I have a problem with any sort of stealing from me “for the better good” shall we say.