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 ...
Guess that answers David Bowie’s question about if there’s Life on Mars?
Welcome to Hell...Here’s your accordion.
“In fact, the only things our planet and Mars really have in common ...”
People like this author appear to have never seen
people swiming in water. You can die there just as fast.
LOL! True.
One of my favorite Gary Larson cartoons.
I dunno. I just hope the music of Bach and Chopin, and to a much, much lesser extent, Mozart, still exists at that time.
University of Mars fight song: “Surrender Earthlings!’’.
Elon Musk?!
Minerals will be the future space wars.
Robots are the perfect way to explore Mars, asteroids, or anywhere else.
Sending humans means 100 X the cost of robots just for the vanity screen shot of a living human in a pressurized space suit planting a flag, and, (hopefully) making it home alive.
For that price, we can send 100 X the number of robots (with the same cameras and sensors) to every planet and asteroid in the solar system.
Grabbing asteroids and throwing them back to earth still won’t require humans.
See above.
Any community on Mars will be by definition far-removed from current earthly political trends. A chance to start over. Anyone espousing leftie drivel can just go off and start on their own.
In a “no prisoners” sort of way.
II Peter 3:10-13. It’s coming. Better be ready.
“Also, she never heard of terra forming?”
Ah yes, a speculative technology that doesn’t actually exist, that’s the ticket.
This thread absolutely cries out for that reply.
The idea is that the Leftists would never make it anywhere else. They would taste the vacuum of space long before they reached the destination. When air has a price, it isn't as likely to be wasted.
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