Posted on 09/03/2020 9:13:36 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk says that while his plan to establish a self-sustaining Mars colony may have slipped behind schedule, he still hopes to see Starships first orbital flight test in 2021.
However, he warned those going there might not make it back.
He said: I want to emphasise that this is a very hard and dangerous, difficult thing, not for the faint of heart, he added. Good chance youll die, its going to be tough going, but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.
We came from Mars—and that is the hidden secret.
well i know seth and elon
He may be busy in court about that time TRYING to explain his financial ties to CHINA!
............ and Norfolk Island.
PROBES to Mars, build Moon base for humans first.
It’s probably safer than Chicago.
If it will be so glorious, maybe they should strap him to the rocket to Mars. Light ‘em up...
Probably a very good analog for what the first expedition to mars will be: long, dangerous, immensely important historically.
I remember my younger teen years when I was enraptured in sci-fi novels and my young male mind dreamed of far off places ... I think a VERY American, young male characteristic.
I believe America was based and built entirely on the whims and dreams young boys were allowed to mature and enact as men.
Having said that, I WANT to think there are still some dreamers out there.
No one has EVER posited what happens in zero gravity to a sperm and egg conception in a human female ... not in mixed company anyway, but trust me ... little boys have been on it for over 50 years.
I agree, there is still a pioneer spirit in America and God BLESS it.
Or stop it.
You will die.
But well all die in 11.267 years on earth anyway, so what do we have to lose? Its 4.359 years if Trumps re-elected.
/s
I don’t think it will happen.
You call it Mars. We call it Barsoom.
I nominate Juntin(e) True-dope to colonize Mars. He can graduate from being a Prime Mistake of a mere country, Kanadahar, to ruler of a planet! Go for it, Justin(e); it would be glorious! Most Canadians would be behind you all the way.
“The Moon is a good starting platform to learn how to build a sizable life-supporting environment.”
No magnetic field. This is where a storm you can’t see or feel will kill you.
I am thinking send in the machines.
Is that not what Evil Knevil said?
But then he chickened out and pulled the cord immediately.
How many historical explorers set out from Europe on ships looking for adventure and never returned?
>>Dont think theyll have to worry about making a fire.<<
At least not until they settle on a color!
Does no one on this thread think self-sustaining human habitats can’t be built by robots? What about contained local terra-forming? Huge projects, but can be done with current technology. Finance and time are the problem, not the technology. Radiation? Ever hear of Faraday containment? If you have a bird in cage, you already have one. Just surround the transport ships with a Faraday cage system for emp and current systems for cosmic radiation. There’s a reason that the ISS doesn’t kill all the astronauts that have been on board for years.
Goody! Can we volunteer every name on the democRAT voter rolls for the job?
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