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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 02 2016, @02:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-a-way-to-go dept.

If I died today it'd be a holiday... on Mars. Elon Musk has suggested that the first Martian settlers should be prepared to die:

The first people who fly with SpaceX to Mars should be OK with the possibility that the decision could cost them their lives, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said. SpaceX aims to ferry 1 million people to the Red Planet over the next 50 to 100 years using the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), a rocket-spaceship combo that Musk unveiled Tuesday (Sept. 27) during a talk at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Well, he unveiled the ITS in concept; neither vehicle has been built yet.)

Musk painted a picture of a not-too-distant future in which 1,000 or more ITS spaceships, each loaded up with 100 or 200 settlers, zoom off toward Mars simultaneously from Earth orbit. But it's naïve to expect that everything will work perfectly from the start, he said. "I think the first journeys to Mars are going to be really very dangerous. The risk of fatality will be high; there's just no way around it," Musk said at the IAC, adding that, for this reason, he would not suggest sending children on these flights. "It would be, basically, 'Are you prepared to die?' If that's OK, then, you know, you're a candidate for going," he said. Musk said he'd like to go to Mars, but it's unclear if he'll be among the Red Planet vanguard.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @05:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2016, @05:48AM (#408992)

    It sounds like you have been contemplating this for awhile now.

    Also, regarding your sig:

    Trump says mean things sometimes. Clinton says mean things all the time.

    ...so, what's life like in your parallel universe? Just asking.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 02 2016, @02:21PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 02 2016, @02:21PM (#409071) Journal

    The sig? I can, if you ask really nice, come up with all kinds of ugly things that Hillary says. Remember her husband cut welfare for the masses? Her husband went along with that law and order bullshit, and the war on drugs. Remember NAFTA and the other trade agreements. And, Hillary supported all of that crap. Hillary did a eulogy for Byrd, and her husband justified the eulogy - "Maybe Byrd made a small mistake in his youth, and joined the KKK", or words to that effect. Byrd was Hillary's mentor, by her own word. Hillary is part of the "ruling class", born with a silver spoon up her ass, and she has no idea how you or I manage to pay the bills, raise the kids, keep a car on the road, and save up for retirement. She has absolutely no idea what it's like to get out of bed morning after morning, to make the trek in to a job that she may or may not like. All of us, who are not part of the ruling class, are so much dirt to her. We are of no value, unless we plan on voting for her.

    She has learned a few words, phrases, and soundbytes that make fools believe that she is "progressive" and all that shit.

    How much of the Clinton Foundation money has gone to charity? Do you really believe that she has ever helped one impoverished individual? All that money earmarked for Haiti? It went into financing a gold mine for her son in law. She USED the Haitians, and she USED every idiot who donated a dollar to the Haitians.

    God, I hate that woman.

    Trump is bad, and Hillary is Trump cubed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 03 2016, @06:49AM (#409289)

      Hillary is part of the "ruling class", born with a silver spoon up her ass, and she has no idea how you or I manage to pay the bills, raise the kids, keep a car on the road, and save up for retirement. She has absolutely no idea what it's like to get out of bed morning after morning, to make the trek in to a job that she may or may not like. All of us, who are not part of the ruling class, are so much dirt to her. We are of no value, unless we plan on voting for her.

      And what, you think that doesn't also describe drumpf? If that's your reason for hating Hillary, then you must also hate drumpf for it. Unless what, being a man makes it ok for him to be part of the ruling class and unable to relate to the masses?

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 03 2016, @05:30PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 03 2016, @05:30PM (#409530) Journal

        It appears that you're just a passing troll, who has latched onto a single part of a single post, and don't know anything about the poster. Let me make it simple for you: Trump bad, Clinton is Trump cubed. I despise Trump, I have despised him since he had his idiotic television show. He's an overbearing ass, and if he were out on one of my jobsites, he'd have had his ass kicked for certain. I may even have been doing the kicking. He's an idiot. But, Trump is nowhere near as dangerous as Shrillary Clinton. If Trump wins, he will be a lame duck from day one. He'll get little support from anywhere at all. Half the R's will vote against him, and 90% or more of the D's will be voting against him. That's on a good day. Trump will accomplish nothing. Meanwhile, Hitlery waves that progressive flag, and most of the D's line up to suck her ass. The ones who don't line up for her, can easily be coerced into whatever she wants. The D's plus the RINOS add up to one hell of a political force. Hitlery will get almost everything she wants - and none of it is good for this country.

        Now, crawl back under your bridge, like a nice little troll, and think that over.