To: NicknamedBob
I started watching the Nat Geo series “Mars”. it was so poorly written from a scientific perspective that I gave up after 4 episodes. Relatively predictable problems were not planed for and all the while there are talking about while they were bragging about how much the experts had done to make it a successful mission. Musk was heavily interviewed for the series.
621 posted on
11/12/2019 8:38:55 AM PST by
mad_as_he$$
(Beware the homeless industrial complex.)
To: mad_as_he$$; Tax-chick
Musk has the capability of providing power along the journey, since he has proven that a single Falcon 9 can easily launch sixty Starlink satellites, each with a large solar array.
Using similar arrays arranged along whatever configuration of Starship convoys they come up with would surely suffice. But I suspect that he may be quietly considering that the Project Mars idea of using compact nuclear reactors would also be a good idea, especially after they get situated on Mars.
624 posted on
11/12/2019 9:08:14 AM PST by
NicknamedBob
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