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Elon Musk Says There's a '70 Percent' Chance He'll Move to Mars:
Elon Musk has talked about personally heading to Mars before, but how likely is he to make the trip, really? Well, he just put a number on it. In an interview for the Axios on HBO documentary series, Musk said there was a "70 percent" chance he'll go to Mars. There have been a "recent number of breakthroughs" that have made it possible, he said. And as he hinted before, it'd likely be a one-way trip -- he expects to "move there."
The executive also rejected the idea that traveling to Mars could be an "escape hatch for the rich" in its current form. He noted that an ad for going to Mars would be "like Shackleton's ad for going to the Antarctic," which (though likely not real) made clear how dangerous and the South Pole journey was. Even if you make it to Mars, you'll spend all your time building the base and struggling to survive harsh conditions, Musk said. And while it might be possible to come back, it's far from guaranteed. As with climbing Everest, Musk believes it's all about the "challenge."
The interview is available on YouTube.
(Score: 5, Informative) by edIII on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:10AM
Ahh, yes, because we perfected that on Earth right? All of the people came together and calmly explained to rich oligarchs that bought up the housing and increased prices by 400%, that they needed to stop, or the average people would be a in a lot of pain. Then they did stop, and the people rejoiced in their evolved and enlightened conflict resolution process. Then they started mining color crystals, riding unicorns, and firing Care-Bear-Stares at everyone within eyesight :)
The people often settle differences through the act of protesting, or grinding the Elite's gravy train to such a halt, that the minimum was doled out to shut them back up. THAT was the evolved thing to do, peaceful protesting and shutting down the factory until the rich fuckers that owned it could be convinced to come closer to the living wage. AFAIK, community differences are NOT settled, but have become entrenched and endemic with no solution in sight. We're more divided than ever. Oddly enough, I think the Internet actually weakened our ability to organize. Things start out peaceful, but then the Elites bring the violence, and you are back at violence being the one true thing that brings changes. That is absolutely true. Read up on the history of Unions in the United States, and how corrupt Chicago police moonlighting as enforcers shot union members protesting in the back. Ohh, and the Coal Police [wikipedia.org] were a real thing. How do you settle community differences with the rich and Elite in your community, when they just send the Coal and Iron Police to kill you?
I wish we lived in your world, but in this one words, ethics, morals, and integrity mean jack, diddly, and shit. The only thing that will stop the sociopaths in the Elites from abusing us is a rock at sufficient velocity to the cranium. Either that, or we abolish the NLRA, and enshrine very serious protections for protesting into the law. To the point, that law enforcement needs to step the fuck back, and have ZERO power to stop a protest. Even if it is crippling businesses. Give the power back to the dock workers to shut down the whole port, and declare some cargo "hot" and refuse to move it.
All of this because some rich sociopaths object to paying living wages to people, preferring to keep them captured and indentured through debt, laws, or force. That's all union members ever asked for; Living Wages, reasonable job safety, and the 8-hour day. (The last of which mothers and children died for in the streets to get it for us).
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.