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: 1) by deimtee on Tuesday November 27 2018, @10:02AM
If you were running the Moon, and tensions were getting to the point of being nuked, the thing to do would be to take kilotonnes to megatonnes of lunar rock, process into gravel and fire into medium earth orbit, with small dispersal charges in the middle of each load. Think of it as an assisted Kessler Syndrome inderdiction.
As for incoming nukes, if your radar is good enough to see them several hours away, you could take them out with a boxcar load of coarse sand on the reverse trajectory.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.