Posted on 03/04/2021 1:49:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which may someday send humans to Mars, is, according to Musk, likely to launch soon, possibly within the coming days. But what motivates Musk? Why bother with Mars? A video clip from an interview Musk gave in 2019 seems to sum up Musk’s vision—and everything that’s wrong with it.
....Sagan believed that if we had a photo of ourselves from this distance, it would forever alter our perspective of our place in the cosmos.
But there Musk cuts himself off and begins to laugh. He says with incredulity, “This is not true. This is false––Mars.”
He couldn’t be more wrong. Mars? Mars is a hellhole. The central thing about Mars is that it is not Earth, not even close. In fact, the only things our planet and Mars really have in common is that both are rocky planets with some water ice and both have robots (and Mars doesn’t even have that many).
Mars has a very thin atmosphere; it has no magnetic field to help protect its surface from radiation from the sun or galactic cosmic rays; it has no breathable air and the average surface temperature is a deadly 80 degrees below zero. Musk thinks that Mars is like Earth? For humans to live there in any capacity they would need to build tunnels and live underground, and what is not enticing about living in a tunnel lined with SAD lamps and trying to grow lettuce with UV lights? So long to deep breaths outside and walks without the security of a bulky spacesuit, knowing that if you’re out on an extravehicular activity and something happens, you’ve got an excruciatingly painful 60-second death waiting for you.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Weird. Interesting! But weird.
Terror and Panic are the Moons of Mars.
And no, didn’t need to look it up. :-)
Remove the 't' from 'Elton' and ... 'Elon'!!!
It's been staring us in the face all this time!
Nothing like an Aristophanes reference to really pep up a day! :^) Clearly there's some leftist political agenda churning through what passes for The Atlantic's shill though. And I say that as a longtime skeptic of Mars colonization.
Some Hanna Barbera characters got together and did a take on Birds called Yogi’s Ark once. I’m sure that Bonanza once did one of the Lysistrata. Hoss and Little Joe get stuck in the middle of a range war, and they get the women to go on strike to make peace in the town, without spelling out exactly what it was they were on strike with. Musk should read up on his Greek literature so as not to commit this folly. Birds was such a success that Kleon, normally Aristophanes’ enemy, had him put on a public repeat performance of the play, unconnected to the Dionysian festival.
Rudngren did a song “Lysistrata”, I didn’t draw the cover. :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563cWIBIsJU
“Yogi’s Ark Lark”
https://kisscartoon.sh/Cartoon/Yogi-s-Ark-Lark
“You won’t let me come inside unless I won’t go to war no more”? Ewwww.
> Cinesias: Stay still, then. Why are you turning away from me? What’s that sticking out from under your tunic? Blue balls, is it? From the long march?
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