Posted on 08/15/2025 7:01:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
About the “rationale” for doing all this.
Even if no large object (asteroid, comet, etc) ever hits the Earth, that large ball of heat and light in the sky, also known as the Sun, will eventually expand, and we humans will have to be elsewhere.
Musk talks about consciousness being multi-planetary, so that all that we are and have done is not lost.
And yes, yes, I know that God is good and God is great. I do not pretend to know all of God’s plan. Friends and family state that long before the Sun expands, we will all be called home. Perhaps. In the meantime, God gave us this IMMENSE curiosity, and the ability to increase our individual and collective abilities to push forward.
Mars is just the first logical step. We will build large and small space stations in our Solar System. Living and mining in the asteroid belt is a no brainer. People have mentioned Titan. Titan is basically a gas station. On Titan there are oceans of hydrocarbons. It rains hydrocarbons.
I wonder is musks boring machine fits inside the 30 diameter cargo section of a Starship
Time will prove you are full of stupid ideas such as living in mars. But we will both be dead before anyone can live there so no point in arguing.
Musk is never a good one to bet against, but I do wonder why a five-Raptor version wasn’t constructed and tested, that would have been able to replace the Falcon 9. Of course, the F9 has been a raging success, so...
I’m with you. Space is just another frontier, one that is more challenging. We’ll long for something as simple as redskins.
“I wonder is musks boring machine fits inside the 30 diameter cargo section of a Starship”
You betcha, they bore 12 foot tunnels and working on 21 foot version for cargo. They based in Pflugerville Texas...GO PANTHERS!!
the center core is almost always tossed into the ocean, or landed on the barge IDK the side cores are landed at the launch site.
It’s not supposed to be, but they’ve had a lot of trouble getting it to land in the handful of times they’ve used it.
spacex usually uses a flacon0 booster that has had many flights so its a last use one.., its been a while for a falcon heavy flight..
Then Martian microbes will be released and will infect everyone on Earth. WE will then become Martians.
Future self plus “chickens” will be bigger.
https://www.threads.com/@bgwlldraws72/post/DFzitigxMHK/media
That’ll screw up the song, hmm, “ain’t nobody here but us Martian chickens...”
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