It’s like he asked the engineers “what’s the hardest part of sending people to Mars” and they said “bringing them back” and so he said “don’t do that”.
Also, who does he think is going to pay for this? Is he going to charge people to be colonists? He must be assuming the government will pick up the tab. Unless like everything else in the Internet age, he is counting on advertising and data mining. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 7:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - is Elon Musk nuts? According to the movies, that is what it takes. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 3/5/2020 4:41 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: Maybe he plans on them sciencing the shit out of that thing. On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 6:09 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yes. He's nuts. He'll solve the problem of delivering a colony to Mars, but has anyone solved the problem of how they'll actually survive on Mars? We've had trouble with building closed ecosystems on Earth, where the temperature and pressure are survivable and the air is breathable. Shouldn't they experiment with a colony in Antarctica or Death Valley before they worry about launching it all to Mars? Or is the hope that solving one piece of the puzzle will create a will to solve the rest of it? On 3/5/2020 6:25 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/inside-elon-musks-plan-to-build-one-starship-a-week-and-settle-mars/ -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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