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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @09:56PM
well, adastra was one miserable sci-fi movie in the same miserable league as space odyssee, either number.
the only thing going for ad astra was that it was a space sci-fi, at least we got one ... that year.
in any case, people not being st0pid mostly, the serious ones will try the least but realistic investment in mars to find if it's possible to self sustain. obviously there will have to some trade and the real question is if there's something, anything, worth importing from mars.
as for the moon, i guess the problem is hard radiation and the design for the helium-3 reactor.