Posted on 09/19/2024 12:48:14 PM PDT by aquila48
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that the rocket manufacturing company intends to offer a trip to Mars to anyone who volunteers in the future but warned that the journey might be uncomfortable.
What Happened: “In all seriousness, SpaceX hopes to offer travel to Mars to anyone who wants to go…” Musk wrote on social media platform X in response to former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton with whom he has a history of sparring now and then.
However, the journey to Mars, Musk warned, will be like a “long sea voyage.”
“….it will be like a long sea voyage in centuries past – dangerous and uncomfortable, but great adventure!” Musk said.
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Earlier this month, Musk said the first Starships will head to Mars in two years once the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens.
The first launches to Mars in 2026, Musk then said, will not have a crew onboard and will be aimed at testing the flight's ability to land intact on Mars.
"If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years," Musk wrote, pegging the first crewed Starship flights to the neighboring planet for 2028. A self-sustaining city, he said, should be ready in about 20 years.
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The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein. I read it as a kid.
Let me guess: He’ll get 144,000 there.
It is from Heinlein.
Book of short stories. The Green Hills of Earth.
Mars, schmars.
If he really wants to do something incredible, bring smoking flights back.
Miss those Pan Am days!
A long sea voyage in centuries past, other than the fact that when you get to the destination, there is no air to breathe.
🐂 💩…we can’t even make it to the moon except in a studio!
Ah ... Bull Poop!
Yes, you have correctly identified your assertion.
With AI and robots becoming more and more sophisticated, I don’t believe there will ever be a reason to risk any human lives beyond the moon’s orbit. EVER. As a huge Star Trek, TOS fan, that disappoints me, but maturity is hard. It’s like when I stopped believing in Santa.😎
Actually, that reminds me a little of the Mayflower - not much farming and very little hunting to be done in November in New England. Even the natives were ordering down jackets from Amazon Prime.
I missed out on the submersible going down to the Titanic, maybe I’ll have better luck with Musk.
The greatest Sci-fi books I’ve ever read on the subject of Mars are “Red Lightning” and “Red Thunder”. It comes up with the tech necessary to make it realistic - but, of course, in a very unrealistic way.
IMO, man will never set foot on mars. Not because we’ll never be able to, but because it will never be worth the money or risk. AI and robots will do all space exploration, assuming we survive another couple of hundred years, which I doubt.
This sounds like Elon Musk is trolling people. Today, September 19th, is "Talk Like A Pirate Day":
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4265789/posts
Don’t forget to take along a terraforming kit to use on Mars.
By that time IF that woman gets in the WH, we’ll all be volunteers for the trip. I can’t imagine anything worse than her being president...even an uncomfortable ride to Mars!
I don’t believe there will ever be a reason to risk any human lives beyond the moon’s orbit. EVER.
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Well, if 1210 foot diameter Apophis hits at 18,000mph in a few years, minds may be changed ... rapidly.
As you know it is now believed to pass within 19,000 miles of the surface of the Earth. Any slight nudge between now and April 19, 2029 could cause it to come even closer - and all of that assumes they have calculated the orbits correctly.
Then there are all the dark bodied asteroids that are near impossible to see, let alone track.
“We pray for one last landing
on the globe that gave us birth
To rest our eyes on fleecy skies
and the cool green hills of Earth.”
Props to anyone who recognizes the verse.
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We could all google it but I won’t until I finish my reply - it’s a lovely verse!!!
I’ll go, I don’t have much going on living on this planet anyways...
Exciting! Loved Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles!
The Book of Revelation talks about such a hit.
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