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Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 18 2020, @05:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-are-here dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

CNet:

The first aren't even built yet, but [Elon Musk] already has big plans for his company's spacecraft, which includes turning humans into an interplanetary species with a presence on Mars. He crunched some of the numbers he has in mind on Twitter on Thursday.

Musk doesn't just want to launch a few intrepid souls to Mars, he wants to send a whole new nation. He tossed out a goal of building 100 Starships per year to send about 100,000 people from Earth to Mars every time the planets' orbits line up favorably.

A Twitter user ran the figures and checked if Musk planned to land a million humans on Mars by 2050. "Yes," . The SpaceX CEO has suggested this sort of . This new round of tweets give us some more insight into how it could be done, though "ambitious" doesn't do that timeline justice. Miraculous might be a more fitting description.
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fans, rejoice. there will be plenty of jobs on Mars. When asked how people would be selected for the Red Planet move, , "Needs to be such that anyone can go if they want, with loans available for those who don't have money." So perhaps you could pay off your SpaceX loans with a sweet terraforming gig.

Terraforming the planet should be easy if Quaid can get past Cohagen and start the reactor.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:30PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:30PM (#945053) Journal

    Every step of the way must follow capitalism's golden rule: No profit, no go.

    So? He is planning to offer the 21st century interplanetary equivalent of the transoceanic voyage. Sell tickets and send them on their way.

    if any of his ventures turn south so do his Mars dreams.

    I wonder if that is actually true. Does SpaceX get shuttered if Tesla goes bankrupt?

    Starship development cost seems to be coming in at the low end of the $2-10 billion estimate that was given. So at least the creation of some working Starships could probably succeed even if Starlink fails to generate any revenue.

    If SpaceX goes out of business, they can sell off the Starship design to someone else. Probably limited to U.S. companies due to export laws. Blue Origin is the obvious choice. Musk might not live to see his dreams realized, but he won't care after he's dead.

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