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.
The upcoming "replacements" are the Artemis IV lunar space station and a bunch of proposals from different private companies who all want to be landlords of a future space station. All of these, including Artemis IV are in the "artist interpretation only" CGI picture phase, are attached to projects plagued by delays and problems, and set to launch "no sooner than" the end of 2028. Very likely, none of these will ever get off the ground.
The only project beyond this stage is the private Axiom Station, an upcoming series of modules set to launch to the ISS to allow corporate astronauts to live and work on the ISS, then detach and become a private leave-behind when the ISS deorbits. Fucking grim.
He proclaims he'll get stuff to Mars and Presto! there will be a city of millions of people.
I think he's in the same gravity well of credulity that his cult followers are also in, where landing on Mars is the Epic Science Victory, show completion score, roll credits, and everything after that can be dismissed until it happens.
Imagine Elon had a detailed 10,000 people Mars starter city plan that he made public to much fanfare.
He sort of did: it was a picture of a Texas-style mega highway with fucking cars, but with a red background.
That sounds about right. Who needs stuff like food, air, and protection from deadly radiation when you've got a car that you're gonna drive to... Wait a minute. Drive to where exactly?
Much like the rest of "singularity" power fantasies, there's often a drought of actual imagination and the core of the vision is some idealized 1950s shit, but with more chrome and glass and living forever with superpowers.
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.
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.
Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.
Oh lmao in my head I thought we were a long ways away
The upcoming "replacements" are the Artemis IV lunar space station and a bunch of proposals from different private companies who all want to be landlords of a future space station. All of these, including Artemis IV are in the "artist interpretation only" CGI picture phase, are attached to projects plagued by delays and problems, and set to launch "no sooner than" the end of 2028. Very likely, none of these will ever get off the ground.
The only project beyond this stage is the private Axiom Station, an upcoming series of modules set to launch to the ISS to allow corporate astronauts to live and work on the ISS, then detach and become a private leave-behind when the ISS deorbits. Fucking grim.
The so-called "best nation on earth", folks
what a shit show
compare this to the Chinese space station, lmao
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Axiom
STOP BUILDING TORMENT NEXUSES
I think he's in the same gravity well of
credulity that his cult followers are also in, where landing on Mars is the Epic Science Victory, show completion score, roll credits, and everything after that can be dismissed until it happens.
He sort of did: it was a picture of a Texas-style mega highway with fucking cars, but with a red background.
That sounds about right. Who needs stuff like food, air, and protection from deadly radiation when you've got a car that you're gonna drive to... Wait a minute. Drive to where exactly?
Carbrain is a helluva drug.
Much like the rest of "singularity" power fantasies, there's often a drought of actual imagination and the core of the vision is some idealized 1950s shit, but with more chrome and glass and living forever with superpowers.
"Cars on Mars" sounds like an Onion headline.