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Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 18 2020, @05:49PM   
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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• Re:Mars gravity enough? Re:Mars gravity enough? (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:28PM (2 children)

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:28PM (#945283) Homepage

  Microgravity is awful for the health of those who are not adapted to microgravity. It only takes a couple of dozen generations for significant physiological changes to kick in as long as there's enough r-like breeding behaviour. We know it's trivial for the female of the species to squirt out well over a dozen offspring, which gives enough of a genepool to select from quite aggressively. Of course, you can never come 'home' to planet earth, but survival means survival in your local environment, nothing more.

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• Re:Mars gravity enough? Re:Mars gravity enough? (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:49PM (1 child)

  by khallow (3766) on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:49PM (#945294) Journal

  My take is that technology will eventually reduce that adaption time to zero generations.

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  • Re:Mars gravity enough? (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday January 19 2020, @05:40PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday January 19 2020, @05:40PM (#945393) Homepage

    Eventually, assuming we don't filter ourselves out of existence, I agree that that tech's on the cards. However, whether it becomes a reality before or after it could be relevant for space conquest is a matter better discussed in a lively chat in a pub over a beer, because we really can't extrapolate accurately enough far enough for either technology to be sure of anything.

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