https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-imperator-mars
"I will rule this sector or see it burnt to ashes around me."
-- Elon musk :melon-musk:
I have a new theory on why rich people love space travel:
Fleeing Earth to colonize space doesn't make much sense, since even the most dire global warming predictions leave Earth way more livable than say Mars. If we can terraform or build a dome or whatever just do it here. The real reason is because of the twin paradox.
The twin paradox is a weird result of relativity. Basically, objects that are moving at near light-speed experience time slower than objects that aren't moving*. So if you have two twins and one of them makes a high-speed round trip to a star several light years away, when they get back they'll be younger than the other twin.
So anyways, rich people want to be able to send kids on high-speed rockets and when they return they'll be legally adults.
*yes I know this is simplified and what's important is the change of reference frames and blah blah don't @ me
Oh I thought you were gonna say they want to travel in space for a few years and come back when everything is fixed 100 years later
but yeah yours makes more sense
I 100% expect him to get murdered by the rest of his crew, my question is would they lie about him sacrificing himself or just say "yeah we killed him"
i hope some weird martian microbe gets in him and he shits himself to death
Americans: We fought a bourgeoisie revolution to free ourselves from monarchy.
[ 245 years later]
Also Americans: All hail god emperor Elon!
It’s also a bit unclear what he means. Imperator is a term that usually refers to a commander in chief of the ancient Romans
Uh emperor, emperor is the word you are looking for and has a pretty clear meaning.
He can have Mars; that fucking planet is a hellscape. Venus is far more colonizable (but even there you're totally dependent on supply lines from Earth).
I'm totally ignorant on this subject, how is Venus more colonizable?
Similar gravity to Earth, a functioning magnetosphere, and as a bonus, there's the fact that above the cloud layer, while the air isn't breathable, you could walk around with only a breathing apparatus since the acidic stuff is heavy and not present while the temperature is pretty comfortable for humans. Even better, our breathing atmosphere would almost be as buoyant as helium, so flying cities would be possible. Given the wind speeds, people would experience day and night in 2 earth day cycles instead of... once every year or so.
Breathable air is a lifting gas on Venus, and it holds you in a region of the atmosphere that's actually hospitable (temperature-wise, anyway) for humans. The sulphuric acid in the atmosphere does require special materials to withstand, but by contrast, Mars is too cold, has too thin an atmosphere, and there's basically no way to keep the dust out of any settlements there, so machinery will inevitably break down and need to be replaced.
What if we throw him out of the airlock ironically , you know, as a little troll.
I think you have to be there to be the imperator of the place. If not I'm the imperator of the moon
This is the type of guy who will own a company town in the Nevada wastes, oh, 4 years from now
Eh, whatever. Emperors have a higher chance of being assassinated.
I'm perfectly fine with space feudalism, so long as we get space guillotines.
You'd need little rocket boosters on the sides of the blade so it works without gravity. Those are going to be some expensive beheadings.
