20 years later, same promises as 20 years ago, now with "vastly increase the probable lifespan of consciousness, as we will no longer have all our eggs, literally and metabolically... on one planet"
Getting into Stefan Molyneux levels of breeder fetish egg fixations, too.
The whole eggs/fertility thing is really based on a huge (and largely deliberate) misunderstanding of reproductive biology and how ovarian follicles work and die. You're essentially at peak fertility at 30, most of the eggs die off before age 5.
I had completely forgotten about Stefan Molyneux
It's so funny that the logical conclusion of this guy's life is Starlink satellites inevitably causing Kessler syndrome and preventing humans space exploration.
Musk creating a Mars colony is the Star Citizen of space travel.
I'm not as familiar with the Star Citizen situation aside from the posts about it on here but it's also funny how those devs are
the whales for such a long time now, and yeah Musk has been getting away with it for decades.. low priced electric cars, self driving cars, sentient AI, Mars colony, you name it, the techbros were the biggest marks for it as usualHow many eggs does he think are required to make one baby lol
omelette
ever wonder why pregnant bellies are pan shaped
Elon make a post without being creepy about breeding challenge
4 years
Wow, in my lifetime the Mars LandingsTM have gone from being perpetually 20 years away, to perpetually 10 years away, to perpetually 4 years away. Truly impressive!
I wonder if we’ll be down to perpetually 2 years away in 10 years!
I want him to be confident enough that him and his six richest friends go early on
The great thing about Mars is there's no pesky age of consent laws!
How did that quote not be sus to anyone? Like that seriously implies that there is an earth law he wants to break, but he is smart enough to know not even he can get away with criticizing that earth law.
I genuinely believe the entirety of SpaceX only exists because he wants to be free from any semblance of consequences for SA
No pesky labor laws either.
Moon is right there, and have same conditions (no magnetic field, no atmosphere, carcinogenic dust)
Putting nukes on the moon will probably be first case of building something there
Or maybe pog telescope
I bet Musk creates a weapons program before he lands on Mars. If he wants to be emperor of Mars he'll need a threat in order to prevent rebellion and the colony declaring independence from him the moment it gains any kind of self sufficiency.
This is the worst future. I love space, I love space travel and I do truly believe expanding out to the stars is inevitable for humanity. But the governments of the world with space capable craft are either underfunded or too busy bailing out billionaire vanity projects.
I have zero confidence that this man or his circlejerk corporate stooges can get ANYTHING to land on Mars. Nor will he be able to get anyone there safely. He has no serious plan for this, he'll just throw his slave-labor money at a group of recent aerospace engineering graduates and tell them to figure it out, as long as it's under budget, of course.
The idea of leaving earth and living on some isolated colony in the middle of space lightyears away from where literally everyone in all of human history has lived and died is so fucking terrifying.
Like...we have astronauts stuck on the fucking ISS, no way in hell I am flying off to some entirely different astronomic body with the current state of space travel.
we couldnt even build a working self-supporting base in antarctica, and that's super easy mode compared to space...
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Elon's entire spiel seems to be haulage which is just a baby step. He proclaims he'll get stuff to Mars and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people. As far as I know - he hasn't said a single word about even the most basic nuts-and-bolts problems of trying to set up even a tiny compound on fucking different planet. Like the lack of air, the lower gravity, the lack of food, the dangerous radiation, and the list goes on.
Imagine Elon had a detailed 10,000 people Mars starter city plan that he made public to much fanfare. I'm sure within the hour regular people would have started to find huge flaws and city would be big trending joke on social media. By the end of the day scientists, technicians, and engineers would have cut his plan to shreds. Elon would have a public meltdown for a week and then pretend that he "owned" his haters.
and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people
We haven't even got orbital cities or moon cities and this clown wants mars cities. The West's only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.
lol, no one has been able to build a self-sustaining city on Earth, but I'm sure that's just all the pesky oxygen and water that is freely available getting in the way, right? Do you think he's even talked to the Biosphere people? Hell, do you think he's even watched Bio-Dome?
It's virtually guaranteed that even if one were to even get a viable amount of people to mars the first attempt at building a colony's doomed to some sort of "all hands lost" situation, isn't it?
If you give me just one billion dollars I will launch a launch a starship to Mars in under 12 months
No give me one billion dollars and I will launch a starship full of all these bazinga assholes straight at the sun and I can probably get it done in 12 weeks
making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost per ton to mars problem
speak american, cracker
Rockets cost money and can only carry so much mass to their destination. Anything more than a research base on Mars would require low costs.
On one thing, Musk and I agree. It is desirable to have self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colonies. Because you never know what kind of crazy shit space can cook up to kill us all. If we could have a colony outside of Earth which has enough resources to get a few thousand people back to Earth any time, it would make it much more likely that the most advanced intelligent life we're aware of continues to exist.
Unfortunately, doofuses like Musk make it far less likely that we'll ever actually achieve that goal. By his involvement he delegitimizes the entire endeavor.
Yup, obviously it isn't going to work with his involvement.
Not to mention the fact that no one has actually demonstrated how a self-sufficient extra-terrestrial colony would work. Much less one on Mars, which is frankly a ridiculous leap. Trying to make your first extra-terrestrial colony on Mars is like picking up chess and deciding that for your first match you want to go for the FIDE master title
He's like a shitty roommate where he constantly talks about leaving but never does.
Are we all parasocially married to the most divorced man?
I'd love to go to Mars and live in a shitty bunker while my lungs get shredded by irradiated razor sharp dust
Any competent engineer would have accounted for such a basic and obvious threat to life in space and mars such as radiation. Therefore no further inquiry is required we can just give him the benefit of the doubt.