BREAKING : scientists discover weaknesses in ice shelf holding back Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier suggesting it could shatter within the next 3 to 5 years— Ben See (@ClimateBen) December 13, 2021
Can someone give me good news? Maybe this is a fake story?
It occurred to me the other day reading one of Branson's tweets that these billionaires aren't doing space travel to escape to mars -- that would be crazy because it's easy to die in space. Like, so easy.
They are doing space travel to send workers and the poor into space so they can clean up the earth and live here isolated from the lower classes who they will send to their deaths working on the moon or whatever.
They are doing space travel to send workers and the poor into space so they can clean up the earth and live here isolated from the lower classes who they will send to their deaths working on the moon or whatever.
That is a certainly a theory but something that is only relevant maybe 100 or 200 years from now when space travel is as convenient and affordable as flying.
Even if you could launch a 747(lets round to 500 passengers) to space every single day just to dispose of the poorest 1 billion people on the planet it would still take 5400 years to get it done.
A single 747 to space is already about 100 times the current single launch capacity. If you scaled it another 100 times on top of that it would quickly become cheaper and easier to just do good old genocide.
To be any more unrealistic than that is just going into the real of science fiction.
For context only about 600 people reached orbit so far in over70 years.
They'd choke to death on the emissions from the launches before anything else - those things output about as much as a few billion people a year every time.
That number was from a misleading headline - it wasn't more than a billion people - it was more emissions that 1 person in the bottom billion of emitters worldwide.
It occurred to me the other day reading one of Branson's tweets that these billionaires aren't doing space travel to escape to mars -- that would be crazy because it's easy to die in space. Like, so easy.
They are doing space travel to send workers and the poor into space so they can clean up the earth and live here isolated from the lower classes who they will send to their deaths working on the moon or whatever.
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It's all about getting people excited about leaving earth, so that its an opportunity rather than a death sentence when it starts happening.
The only thing Elon does successfully is talk big with empty promises to get people excited about his companies. I consider this the same.
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Based on his track record I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
He has no business sense, you don't need it when making giant lies - you just someone to tell you what people want to hear
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I'm just saying if musk is your source, even for his own wants, I wouldn't take that as enough proof that it's true.
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That is a certainly a theory but something that is only relevant maybe 100 or 200 years from now when space travel is as convenient and affordable as flying.
Even if you could launch a 747(lets round to 500 passengers) to space every single day just to dispose of the poorest 1 billion people on the planet it would still take 5400 years to get it done.
Why would they only launch 1 per day?
A single 747 to space is already about 100 times the current single launch capacity. If you scaled it another 100 times on top of that it would quickly become cheaper and easier to just do good old genocide. To be any more unrealistic than that is just going into the real of science fiction.
For context only about 600 people reached orbit so far in over70 years.
And you wonder why the billionaires are putting so much time and effort into solving this problem
They'd choke to death on the emissions from the launches before anything else - those things output about as much as a few billion people a year every time.
That number was from a misleading headline - it wasn't more than a billion people - it was more emissions that 1 person in the bottom billion of emitters worldwide.
It's still a lot but not that ridiculous
damn - well I suppose the principal is the same - you'd never be able to ship enough people offworld without really fucking things up.