He is sounding like Hugo Drax... MOONRAKER had some interesting moments...
Posted on 09/03/2020 9:13:36 PM PDT by PghBaldy
I think you mean African American.
I, Varlock The Vicious Supreme Ruler of Mars will destroy you puny Earthlings!
He didn’t exactly say, yeah you’re gonna die but it will be fun.
He said there’s a high risk but a glorious thing to accomplish.
I don’t think he’s planning to just use them as cannon fodder, the idea is to succeed.
He is sounding like Hugo Drax... MOONRAKER had some interesting moments...
I think they will send robots first, to assemble the prefab surface structures needed to service return flights.
Underground apartments and shopping malls powered by nuclear power is the way to go.
Surface attractions for the tourists.
Bunch of Starships stationed on Mars used for local ferry service to nearby points of interests.
But it will be difficult for them to compete with the larger colony on the Moon.
Yes! That’s a great idea!
I was aware of Australia’s history but I didn’t know about Tasmania. Guess that’s why we have the Tasmanian Devil...
“Don’t think they’ll have to worry about making a fire.”
Because there are no dumpsters on Mars?
“Send DhimmicRATs!!”
In this case I think the correct term is Guinea Pigs...or rather “Dhimmee Pigs”
Maybe he will ship himself. I am so tired of the electric jeebus
I like the idea that Earth is the penal colony for this corner of the universe.
It's already the Red Planet...
The Pilgrims tried socialism when they first arrived. When that failed they went to capitalism and it's worked out ever since. Maybe it's best to get that phase over with as soon as possible.
I guess I’m missing something.
Why would we send people to set up a colony on Mars, if it was expected to be a death sentence????
Manned exploration of Mars may well be in our future, but, don’t we expect those astronauts sent on a Mars mission to return?
Sometime in the early 20th century, British explorer Ernest Shackleton needed to hire a crew for an upcoming expedition to the South Pole. So he placed a newspaper ad:
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in event of success.”
LOL!
I made a mistake; I thought that Mars was hot. :)
“Good chance you’ll die” Incorrect, it is 100%
1. Interplanetary trip with little shielding for solar and interstellar radiation.
2. You have to grow your food on a planet with normal sub zero surface temperatures and little atmosphere, no known water, but abundant CO2 at incredibly low partial pressures.
3. You are on a planet with a no magnetic shield via a molten revolving iron core like on earth and thus subject to all sun and galactic radiation.
You will die.
Man will probably walk on Mars one day. Man will never live on Mars. It will be a brief excursion and landing and return. The cost will be insane. Much more scientific knowledge of this planet can be obtained via robotic missions at a fraction of the cost. The same can be said for the moon.
LOL...wrong planet. Mars is farther away from the Big Fireball.
Musk is an idiot. Mars is a sterile, cold, inhospitable world. It has dead soil, receives significantly less sunlight than earth, does not hold the little heat it receives, and is short on water and oxygen. It is bombarded by harmful radiation and is covered by fine eiectrostatically-charged dust. Inhospitable places on earth are a paradise next to the Red Planet.
There will eventually be a populated Mars because it is inevitable. And for the same reason our ancestors came to the new world. I would love to look down from Olympus Mons, two and a half times higher than Mount Everest, but I'm old. Someday somebody else will.
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