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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: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:48PM (1 child)
Recall Stranger in a Strange Land, they looked at every person on earth in combination for every other, for 6 people who would get along for the trip to mars, and found that any such combination would murder each other before the half-way point. I think that was heinlein's way of agreeing with satre....
Consider Arthur C. Clark's Song's of Distant Earth, which I talk about all the time, because it shoves in your face the idea that once you are on that ship you have a whole new governance structure. To some extent movies like Aliens and Avatar make this point too, like once you are that far away, and there is a xenomorph in the equation, those orders from distant earth are going to sound a whole lot different. Then flip that and to someone/something out there WE are the xenomorphs....
So we have to, inside of our Trumpenstein governance structure with Elon Musk helming a bizarro conglomerate of opaque oligarchic interests, are to expect that they are going to design sane governance, and glitch/RC free operation of your spacecraft?
When we can't even get agree on how to operate the .org registry. When we can't get rid of the electoral college without total collapse and the risk of nuclear civil war? When epstein gets away despite the existence of a totalitarian surveillance system that we were told would protect the children? When intel processors are made with standalone surveillance subprocessors that probably have their own wifi?
Every problem here doubles itself once you are in space doing anything other than telescope repair.
And the real truth is that they are going to be doing all of this anyway without telling the public, because that is the real nature of whatever the united states military and corporate oligarchy has become, as well as the entangling alliances. That seems to be the number one goal of mass media propaganda in the united states, they need people who can be easily convinced to go die in a distant land.
Or maybe even more distant. All I know is how much I don't know, and that there is a long list of powerful people who have not earned my trust, or are outright sinister. And they do not have my best interest at heart, this I know, so they are going to have a difficult time motivating me.
For something that looked like the right hand side of this equation, I might do anything. For something on the left hand side, I am going to do nothing at all. And that is going to apply to every being, every planet, and every spaceship.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 20 2020, @12:01AM
I would really prefer not