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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: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 19 2020, @06:02AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 19 2020, @06:02AM (#945213) Journal

    In a world where money is the supreme god, any project without foreseeable economic return is unsustainable.

    It would be unsustainable even in a world where money isn't the supreme god.

    I predict Mars colony will be a pure sink for al kind of resources, from food to electronics, humans with best brains included, for at least 100-200 years. Sending just freaks is not an option. We already have a good economic measure: costs of living at low orbit and failure to colonize Moon. That means total costs will be in trillions to megatrillions, by technological and logistical similarity to current Earth military sector.

    Actually, we don't have a good measure of those things. NASA is an insane way to price anything. They increase by one or two orders of magnitude the cost of anything they do. That means, for example, the lower end of your alleged "total costs" for a 100k city could be tens of billions. Which isn't such a big deal.

    And someone here on Earth should pay taxed or work cheap very hardly for that. Even Elon Musk is not in position to handle that scale.

    Unless of course, the gap between his resources and the cost of the project meet.

    This project, if realized, will collapse to pure slavery both here and there.

    Because?