Posted on 10/01/2016 5:34:35 AM PDT by PIF
Edited on 10/01/2016 8:29:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Paging gary johnson, paging gary johnson. Please report the the launch tower.
“Get your arse to Mars”
Love, Hauser
Me too! I want to go, but I’ll bet they don’t allow fossils on board.
Elon Musk believes that the thoughts and actions of every human on earth is controlled by a super intelligent alien race.... Seriously! The man is a lunatic and the only trip he will be going on in the future will be to either an insane asylum or a jail for being a shyster.
This is the guy that says they have to get a ticket price to Mars down to $200K per person to be profitable (?)
Is that WITH or WITHOUT all the government subsidies you might be looking for?
I have a feeling this isn't going to be as easy as the animation suggests.
The emotional support for expending billions of dollars to colonize a planet being blasted with cosmic radiation flummoxes me (Mars has no magnetic field to protect humans on the surface, to say nothing of any other life).
I support a space program, but not this Mars BS, and certainly not Musk’s grand fleecing of the taxpayers...
Bookmark.
I’ll give him credit for trying, but I don’t think it will happen until a new form of propulsion is figured out. Modern rockets are heavy and don’t provide the thrust necessary for what he wants to do, hence 40 rockets in a bundle...
Gotta come up with a different way to push the thing.
I suspect practical space travel will depend on developing something other than chemically fueled rockets.To make it an everyday thing will require something like figuring out how to access that dark energy we are told is all around.
Isn’t colonizing Mars from Earth kinda like leaving the Pacific NW to go live in the “greener pastures” of Death Valley?
To avoid the “POGO” effect with multi-engine rockets it was found that having each engine run at a different frequency from all the other engines will solved this problem. NASA used accumulators on the Saturn V F1 engines to do this.
Anyone who cannot refrain from constantly using F-bombs to get his point across and who purposely uses them has his own problems, and is not worth reading.
Accumulators? I thought that was only for assembly language!
the muskateers are talking about a fast trip to Mars. what kind of engine are they thinking about. The Chang Diaz ?? or other to avoid monthS long journey..?
All Musk nonsense aside, the idea of sending people up to a space station or moon base prior to the long Mars journey makes MUCH more sense than trying to escape earth’s gravity with a huge ship carrying lots of people and stuff.
bttt
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