Posted on 03/04/2021 1:49:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which may someday send humans to Mars, is, according to Musk, likely to launch soon, possibly within the coming days. But what motivates Musk? Why bother with Mars? A video clip from an interview Musk gave in 2019 seems to sum up Musk’s vision—and everything that’s wrong with it.
....Sagan believed that if we had a photo of ourselves from this distance, it would forever alter our perspective of our place in the cosmos.
But there Musk cuts himself off and begins to laugh. He says with incredulity, “This is not true. This is false––Mars.”
He couldn’t be more wrong. Mars? Mars is a hellhole. The central thing about Mars is that it is not Earth, not even close. In fact, the only things our planet and Mars really have in common is that both are rocky planets with some water ice and both have robots (and Mars doesn’t even have that many).
Mars has a very thin atmosphere; it has no magnetic field to help protect its surface from radiation from the sun or galactic cosmic rays; it has no breathable air and the average surface temperature is a deadly 80 degrees below zero. Musk thinks that Mars is like Earth? For humans to live there in any capacity they would need to build tunnels and live underground, and what is not enticing about living in a tunnel lined with SAD lamps and trying to grow lettuce with UV lights? So long to deep breaths outside and walks without the security of a bulky spacesuit, knowing that if you’re out on an extravehicular activity and something happens, you’ve got an excruciatingly painful 60-second death waiting for you.....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
It also has no democrats
The Atlantic is a hell hole of leftist sentiments and unthinking hit pieces masquerading as literature, like this sorry attempt.
God will have the final Word about it.
Actually the very first color images that returned from Mars decades ago were displayed on very expensive color corrected monitors for the Press to see at NASA. When the images came on, there was blue sky with white clouds, green lichen on the ground. The project director rushed on stage and turned the red up as far as it would go. Ever since Mars has red ground and sky
‘Also, she never heard of terra forming?’
terra forming could take as much as a century to implement, beginning with bolstering the atmosphere to support some sort of seeded life...but yeah,it could be done...
Ah, so Sasquatch are former Martians.
Nothing there worth the trouble of dropping down into that gravity well.
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You, of course, are an authority since you’ve thoroughly explored it, right?
You only need a few pounds of pressure to live just fine. Space suits are at just 4.3 pounds.
Pure oxygen at three pounds pressure give you the same O2 partial pressure as 20% O2 at 15 pounds pressure.
Mongolians have genetic traits that adapt them to higher altitudes. Peruvians use a little coca to help their stamina, and everyone can increase their hemoglobin with exposure to low O2 environments. So, we might be surprised how little air we actually need — maybe just a pound or two.
Cold, and lack of sunlight can be compensated for with some good nuclear tech.
I think Mars would be a great place to live, once the memory of “out of doors” is lost.
What happens when a chinese virus breaks out?
It’s like Australia, except the critters aren’t trying to kill you - the planet is.
The trip there will prepare you fro the hell. Drinking your urine and body sweat for water. Then when you get there, enjoy more of your recycled urine and body sweat.
That axial tilt is transitory, without a large moon to add stability.
That axial tilt is transitory
Lava tubes, where available, could be used instead of bored tunnels.
Very cool, thanks!
Mars has got to be better than The Atlantic.
Dark....cold....filled with sewage and dead fish.....
The Atlantic is also the name of an ocean.
Neither is Chicago, or any Democrat-run city...
To hell with that, I vote to send the leftists to Mars.
Total agree. Probes do very well at a much better cost.
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