All this expense to collect few martian rocks 😂
There is no air to breathe on mars, temps are extremely hostile to humans, and no water to grow crops.
The money will be much better spent on making planet earth a better place.
It’s what humans do.
Ever since we left the savannas of Africa.....................
and I believe the soil is toxic
Think of it as a mitigation. If the earth took a hit from a serious comet, what would happen to humanity? Learning to populate and possibly eventually "terraform" Mars is one heck of a project. If Musk wants to spend his money that way, who's to argue? We all learn a lot along the way.
“All this expense to collect few martian rocks”
You have no idea ...
The money spent DOES make earth a better place. The money goes to scientists, engineers, suppliers, manufacturing companies, and so on. In the process of preparing for space, new materials, processes, techniques, and so on are developed and made available for mundane things.
yep, it would be 100X easier to colonize Antarctica than mars.
Humans engineer our environment to make much of the Earth habitable and support a large population, especially through agriculture (the most environmentally damaging of all human activities). Mars has plenty of water locked in ice. You just need power to generate air, water, and habitation.
Like the ballroom that is gonna be built at the white house?
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.
In fact it’s cold as Hell.
cerium, neodymium, and lanthanum is why
Those can be found here, but demand is ever increasing.
Mars has.lots of water enough to cover the surface to a depth of a kilometer of all extracted and melted.
ars is the only other body in the solar system with water and CO2 that humans could step on. Mars has enough atmosphere that humans don’t need full pressure suits with 100% O2 in the masks and compression fabric suits and thermal suits humans can walk and not boil our blood. We need about 1 psi of pressure on the skin to not boil fluids at body temps. A sufficiently tight compression garment can keep in a couple.of psi and with pure O2 we could walk around like that. No need for bulky full bubble suits. The SpaceX launch suits are essentially this tech already. Only the helmets have air the rest of the suit is compressed down on the skin of the wearer.
How very... communal... of you to try to re-invest someone else's earnings.
Elon is doing this on his dime and it is much more than just collecting a few rocks and you are entirely off on the assessment of available resources on Mars.
All this expense to collect few martian rocks ... The money will be much better spent on making planet earth a better place.
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Wrong; this is an effort to permanently live, to colonize Mars. on the counts of water: wrong there is lots of water on Mars; air can be made from the regolith; temperatures are much warmer down in Valles Marineris during summer, daytime temperatures may reach highs of about 70F.
Spending money to make Earth a better place according to whom and which version? And when a more than a mile diameter rock hits, will that make Earth a better place too, since it will be an ELE event?