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Mars Is A Hell Hole
The Atlantic ^ | 26/2/21 | Shannon Stirone

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.....

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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ridley Scott’s 2015 movie “The Martian” starring Matt Damon (which I thought was very entertaining and well-written), presents an accurate description of what existing on Mars looks like.


21 posted on 03/04/2021 2:05:09 PM PST by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: Eleutheria5
Older people might remember the scare about "Martians" coming to Earth to dominate us.

If they ever did come, they would have been surprised to find out how warm it is here on Earth.

22 posted on 03/04/2021 2:06:27 PM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: Eleutheria5

What is it, Mr. Musk that attracts you personally to the desert?

Elon: It’s clean.


23 posted on 03/04/2021 2:07:09 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Mars doesn’t have authoritarian Leftists trying to tell me what I can’t read, can’t say and can’t think. So there’s definitely a plus side.

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Do you really think that if human beings show up in significant numbers anywhere that the political Left will just leave them in peace?


24 posted on 03/04/2021 2:08:09 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I’m thinkin’ its still better than a dozen Libtard hell holes I could name.


25 posted on 03/04/2021 2:08:31 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: monkeyshine

Why go to Mars?

Because if we all stay here, we will with all our history
and achievements be made extinct with the next impact of
a large asteroid or comet.

We gotta get off this rock and start the diaspora.
Without it the reality of no intelligent life
in the universe might be true.


26 posted on 03/04/2021 2:08:44 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Mars sounds like the perfect solution to the criminal migrant problem...

We need the Musk deportation system finished ASAP...


27 posted on 03/04/2021 2:09:56 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

The only place freedom exists is on the frontier,
everything else is civilization, even on the frontier
it doesn’t last long.


28 posted on 03/04/2021 2:10:50 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: All

The Mars tunnel people are not amused.


29 posted on 03/04/2021 2:11:33 PM PST by corlorde
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To: tet68

Well I agree there is an element of manifest destiny to it. But at this point we should be able to detect and destroy meteors before they get close. If we can’t, then we should invest in trying.


30 posted on 03/04/2021 2:12:35 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: SuperLuminal
Mars sounds like the perfect solution to the criminal migrant problem...

In Robert Heinlein's book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, it was the moon that was our dumping ground. There were Novy Leningrad and Hong Kong Luna, among other dumping grounds.

31 posted on 03/04/2021 2:13:02 PM PST by Publius
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To: Trailerpark Badass
[So is Baltimore.]

Probably fewer rats on Mars, though. Between those wildly-swinging temperatures, virtually no atmosphere and no gubmit cheese...


32 posted on 03/04/2021 2:13:04 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: corlorde; dfwgator

[The Mars tunnel people are not amused.]

Benny’s got 5 kids to feed! Maybe 4!


33 posted on 03/04/2021 2:14:31 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Mars doesn't have authoritarian Leftists trying to tell me what I can't read, can't say and can't think.

In one of Robert Heinlein's books, the Mars colony was a clip joint and precisely that kind of place.

34 posted on 03/04/2021 2:14:38 PM PST by Publius
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To: Daffynition
Why bother with Mars

It's a living parable.

March 4, 2021

The Mars Helicopter Could Charge up the Atmosphere Around Itself as it Flies

Plasma globes are a common enough sight in retails stores across the rich world. If you’ve ever seen one and gotten a chance to touch it, you’ve seen how the plasma will arc toward your touch creating a sense that you’re able to harness electricity like Thor.

That effect does not only take place on Earth – anywhere there is a charge build-up that causes a high enough electrical potential between two points to create an electrical glow or corona. Now a team at NASA think that a large charge build-up might occur when Ingenuity, Perseverance’s helicopter companion, takes to the sky.

>>> Ingenuity will operate in a naturally dusty atmosphere and could even possibly create its own miniature dust cloud when it takes to the skies in a few weeks.

https://www.universetoday.com/150377/the-mars-helicopter-could-charge-up-the-atmosphere-around-itself-as-it-flies/

What did Flora know when she was in the field of the golden sceptre, looking up at the First Light at the Big Wind on the Big Rock on Mars hill?

Now there was a gal way ahead of her time. :)

35 posted on 03/04/2021 2:14:43 PM PST by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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To: Eleutheria5
Mars? Mars is a hellhole.

But still nicer than Baltimore, Detroit and San Francisco combined.

36 posted on 03/04/2021 2:16:06 PM PST by ~Peter
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To: Eleutheria5

Shannon Stirone

37 posted on 03/04/2021 2:16:21 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Eleutheria5

“Hell is....other people!”

- Jean-Paul Sartre “Huis Clos”


38 posted on 03/04/2021 2:16:50 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: George from New England

Yep, that’s where it came from.


39 posted on 03/04/2021 2:17:24 PM PST by Paleo Pete (I survived the great Texas freeze out. I may not survive biden...)
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To: Bishop_Malachi
Do you really think that if human beings show up in significant numbers anywhere that the political Left will just leave them in peace?

No, you have a point - the Left is as aggressive as the most radical forms of Islam.
40 posted on 03/04/2021 2:17:37 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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