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Elon Musk used Twitter to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to join him for a chat on Clubhouse
yahoo news ^ | , February 14, 2021, 5:19 AM | Kevin Shalvey

Posted on 02/15/2021 11:00:56 AM PST by ckilmer

Tesla CEO Elon Musk invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to join him on Clubhouse. "It would be a great honor to talk to you," said Musk on Twitter. Musk has previously been active on Clubhouse and recently hosted an interview with Robinhood's CEO.

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KEYWORDS: elonmusk; putin
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There are two core technologies that need to be refined in order to have a successful space colony on Mars. The first is a 4g thorium reactor. The second is very cheap desalination --which robust enough to seperate out all the elements from martian salt water. Mars is rich in underground salt water and thorium. Those would be useful topics for Musk to discuss with Putin
1 posted on 02/15/2021 11:00:56 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

The Democrats love Elon Musk just as much as they loved Trump when he was a Democrat. Elon Musk is coming to our side imagine him being president one day?


2 posted on 02/15/2021 11:04:40 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Uh, probably not.


3 posted on 02/15/2021 11:07:11 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Musk was born in S. Africa. He’s not qualified as a NBC.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 11:07:16 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn
The Democrats love Elon Musk

Um, no.

5 posted on 02/15/2021 11:09:48 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Constitutionally ineligible.


6 posted on 02/15/2021 11:12:28 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: rarestia
"Musk was born in S. Africa. He’s not qualified as a NBC"
If we only followed our constitution...
7 posted on 02/15/2021 11:14:52 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: ckilmer
The most troublesome problem with Mars is the sleeting radiation from the sun. Mars has virtually no magnetic field like Earth does to protect it. The only way humans would be able to survive on Mars is by living underground.

The moon trips were possible because, in part, the trip was only a few days so the humans could be fairly well protected from the radiation. Trying to keep them from dying of radiation poisoning during a months or years long Mars trip is likely beyond current technology.

Sending robots is a better idea, but the communication lag between Earth and Mars is between 8min20sec to 41min40sec depending on the orbital positions. So robots can't be controlled directly in real time. This is a problem if the Green Barsoomians or Kang decide to attack.

Kang:

Green Barsoomians:


8 posted on 02/15/2021 11:24:50 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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“useful topics for Musk to discuss with Putin

IIRC there are only about TWENTY public EV charging stations in all of Russia!

Not easy to sell electric cars if you cannot plug them in?


9 posted on 02/15/2021 11:27:08 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (twenty)
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To: ckilmer

bookmark


10 posted on 02/15/2021 11:29:58 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Colonizing Mars is idiotic


11 posted on 02/15/2021 11:37:28 AM PST by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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Not easy to sell electric cars if you cannot plug them in?

You'll also need a lot more coal-fired power plants to generate electricity to charge all of those electric cars. Solar panels, wind mills, unicorn farts, etc. won't do it.

12 posted on 02/15/2021 11:46:48 AM PST by salmon76 (They call me Big Boomer McKraken. I live at the corner of Breaking Street and Bombshell Avenue.)
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Gee, I wonder if some of the left-wing media will use this story to try and call it an act of “treason” on Musk’s part? :P


13 posted on 02/15/2021 11:49:29 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Seruzawa; montag813
Better watch this:

Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let's do it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w
(only 9 minutes long)

Every single issue you mention, can and will be overcome, most with current technology. Future an developing technologies will take care of the rest..

14 posted on 02/15/2021 12:06:56 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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The most troublesome problem with Mars is the sleeting radiation from the sun. Mars has virtually no magnetic field like Earth does to protect it. The only way humans would be able to survive on Mars is by living underground.

Elon Musk has plans for that. All of his companies are part of the plan. His Starships will be large enough to have double hulls with water as a barrier to radiation. The water will be mined from the Moon. The Mars habitats will be built in craters and lava tubes, that's where his Boring Company machinery comes into play. They'll dig tunnels towards frozen water supplies on Mars, the excavated soil will be made into construction materials. His biggest problem is time, as he fears he won't get the job done in time for him to go to Mars.

I agree with you, sending robots is better. Musk's AI companies will make better automatons to do work in space but Musk wants people to go, which is extremely bad for humans.

15 posted on 02/15/2021 12:18:16 PM PST by roadcat
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To: ckilmer

And?


16 posted on 02/15/2021 12:53:54 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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17 posted on 02/15/2021 12:54:24 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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Neither was Obama. Neither was Kamala. Neither is Cruz.

That ship has sailed. In fact, it’s already in the new world, building colonies.


18 posted on 02/15/2021 12:55:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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Colonizing Venus by Terraforming the atmosphere actually very likely one day. Earth has more CO2 then Venus. Venus also has more nitrogen then earth. Turn CO2 into lime (adding Hydrogen with the use of Sabatier reaction) and we have lots of new real estate. Though it would only last about 12,000 to 24,000 years and it will be destroyed again from what we're only now learning about our star very likely periodically has micro-Nova's. Without an iron core it makes the planet far more susceptible to large flares and Micro-Novas

19 posted on 02/15/2021 1:16:44 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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"Colonizing Mars is idiotic"

Oh, I don't know....🤔..I can think of a few people, (actually quite a few), we could send there, that would benefit us..

And maybe we could even save money, by asking Musk if he could build some kind of a giant catapult to send them there.

20 posted on 02/15/2021 1:17:03 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peacful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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