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Posted on 07/09/2026 6:12:14 PM PDT by Libloather
Trillionaire Elon Musk aims to have rockets blast off from Earth before the end of 2026, sending the first materials to the moon and Mars to start building colonies.
The world’s first trillionaire is then planning to send robots to prepare the infrastructure needed for humans to survive.
Musk said recently he has shifted Space X’s focus as it is closer and “much faster to complete a moon city,” with a timeline of getting it established in the next 10 years. However, he is optimistic he can also start sending material to the red planet within seven years too.
This week, Musk also filed applications with the Federal Communications Commission for the next stage of his plan: sending a “constellation” of 100,000 satellites into space.
SpaceX said this will improve communications between earth and space and provide the computing power needed for billions of AI-powered devices — at home and on the moon.
“If you’ve got a really capable AI system, are you going to embed that in every robot?” he asked. “No, you’re going to have centralized compute — that’s what these satellites are for,” SpaceX founding team member Jim Cantrell told The Post.
“The robots build the settlement before the humans show up,” he added. “And unless Musk does something stupid or somebody kills him, [he’ll live to see it all].”
The plan progressed Thursday, when SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit using its Falcon 9 re-useable rocket, which has so-far made 36 return flights.
However, to launch the heavy machinery needed to build settlements beyond earth, Musk has also said on X he’s planning to engineer a much bigger transport rocket than even his Starship model.
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Is this a symptom of an excessive bank account?
“Too much emphasis on science fiction?”
No fiction.
“Is this a symptom of an excessive bank account?”
Nope. A man on a mission.
A fool’s errand.
“A fool’s errand.”
You would have said the same about Columbus.
“A fool’s errand.”
You would have said the same about Columbus.
“A fool’s errand.”
You would have said the same about Columbus.
It’s called “Moonraker”.
Musk’s trillion+ wealth isn’t in a bank account. Not even 1%.
It’s the market assessed value (meaning other people, willing to demonstrate with their own money) of the profitable enterprises he has spawned and directs.
The Left simply can’t grasp this, that wealth is created by profitable enterprises, and not any other way.
Lacking this understanding, and the imagination that wealth creation requires, they can only see taking wealth and consuming wealth, with no thought what makes that even possible.
I believe that the colonization of the moon and other planets is inevitable.
And it will be people like Musk rather than government agencies that will make it happen.
There are videos on YouTube about how space radiation will kill you over time, almost like shooting you with tiny bullets damaging your DNA and cells.
Many satellites and the ISS are still within the Earth’s magnetic shield, so it’s not as much of a problem.
I don’t know a lot about the subject, maybe someone could explain.
I moved my comment to here:
Of more immediate concern than robots is getting Starship Flight 13 and the booster up and down successfully. Following, they have to lick the formidable issues of ship & booster catch, then the fuel storage and transfer in orbit, plus the 15 fuel launches w/ transfer into an orbiting fuel tanker and, lastly, to then transfer it into a Moon bound Starship lander.
Robots? Musk has yet to demonstrate he can even get them to the Moon. I have no doubt he will, but how quickly and w/o issues along the way? Doubtful.
“There are videos on YouTube about how space radiation will kill you over time, almost like shooting you with tiny bullets damaging your DNA and cells.”
The idea is to cover a habitat in moon dirt to block the radiation.
Horizontally land a HLS starship and have the robots pile dirt over it.
Radiation away from Earth is indeed a major concern, both the slow accumulation over time or - and the Apollo astronauts were fortunate that no event occurred - quickly via a burst from the Sun.
Moon habitats will be attempted to be shielded with regolith and water barriers but it will be an in-progress monitoring exercise as they go along to find the safety margin for Moon/Mars inhabitants.
bet the author does not understand that specific serial number booster has made 36 flights.
The left has
Scrooge Mcduck
Syndrome...
They think he has a huge vault filled with cash that he swims in everyday.
Pathetic really.
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