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SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary

posted by takyon on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the funding-needed dept.

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This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk will provide an update to his 2016 presentation regarding the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.

Making Life Multiplanetary

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 02 2017, @05:04AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday October 02 2017, @05:04AM (#575766) Journal

    If there is any existing life to contaminate on Mars, it is probably locked up in a subsurface ocean, not the topsoil where we have been dumping rovers and may try to grow some potatoes in 2040.

    Just like with Enceladus, Europa, Ceres, and other places, we need to drill baby drill if we want a good chance of finding life.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 02 2017, @10:36AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday October 02 2017, @10:36AM (#575841) Journal

    "we need to drill baby drill if we want a good chance of finding life."

    That's what she said.

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