Little St James
Big St Mars
“I am Elon Musk, and I'm here to ask you a question.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.'
'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.'
'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.'
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.”
‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’
unrealistic setup
Please don't meme this into existence. I don't want Musk to ruin my favorite game by unironically quoting it, not realizing it is criticizing him.
He already made his twitter avatar the logo from Deus Ex that one time, I think that ship has sailed
like why does he actually use twitter like i don't get it like as a billionaire just stop using it pay some nerd to talk to the nerds i don't understand why do this?
Musk: "Heh, no laws on Mars!"
United States: "Yeah, no laws against orbital bombardment."
Musk: "Wha--"
The rich can take their money with them to Mars but they can't take the means of production there, almost all of that would have to stay here. While they're gone we can take a few decades to implement communism and fix what's fixable with the environment; then we mosey on over to Mars and see how their society made of 100% capitalists worked out.
Lol thankfully Elon will die on Mars long before he's able to oppress anyone with his shitty laws.
Still unconvinced that reality won't play out almost exactly like the Aliens/Prometheus timeline, and he'll be kept alive through young blood transfusions or something, and smuggled onto an interplanetary mission to find extraterrestrial life, where through his arrogance, and fear of death, he'll somehow create a new heretofore non existant horror to plague humanity, before dying.
Him simply getting lynched on Mars after his extraterrestrial Galt's Gulch experiment turns to shit, just seems like Hellworld letting us off too easy.
I don't trust it.then his entitled child will probably take over, unless being made as a joke is enough to make them think differently
The slice of cheese and side salad are actually add ons.
Per contract, you're only entitled to two slices of bread a day.
Trying to think of what dumbass solution Elon would come up for delivering oxygen supply.
Elon Musk will never personally set foot on Mars lmao. He might send some poor saps there to greatly risk their lives for a headline, but there is no fucking way we set up a standard of living Mars suitable to Elon Musk's expectations. There's no way we make travel safe enough that he'd risk his earthly wealth to go there. Even he knows this, he's just looking for attention.
Mars is so mind mindbogglingly stupid. Have these capitalist pieces of shit never heard of a rotating habitat? it can orbit earth meaning much smaller travel time, no reentry issue, mars is just a shitty rusty habitat with less gravity than a spinny boi and no atmosphere to breathe. I am not even into space, I am a math student and I know more than these dumbasses.
Rotating habitats are still way better if you are trying to survive climate collapse. You don't need to deal with reentry or escape velocity. Fuck hollowing out an asteroid and making it spin fast would be easier, cheaper and better than mars.
they can have fun in their .7 or whatever g and get long bones I guess shrug.
Fuck I want long bones. I could stand being 4 or 5 inches taller.
Yup, risk other peoples lives to create and test the tech to try and ride out the climate apocalypse.
that's dumb tho, earth is going to be far nicer than mars for at least the next century. Musk can always build a billion dollar bunker in the middle of bumfuck canada
if he actually wants a mars colony, the reason is to serve as a backup for in case earth's atmosphere gets so bad that you can't even breathe anymore.
once his instruments clock in 1000 ppm CO2 he'll hit the launch button outside his bunker with him (or his progeny if he's dead by then) inside it
If there's no law on Mars, there's no law stopping China from testing inter-planetary weapons against coordinates that just happen to have the Space-X base.
SPACE FORCE SPACE FORCE like i don't think mars is far away enough for america not to bomb the shit out of it if they want it bad enough
Many things can be done. Declare SpaceX a foreign power and seize all of their equipment, then use it as a power lever, or also send weapons.
I'd give Musk about 2 months before the other martian colonists killed him
not that there will be any martian colonists, it's a stupid idea in every respect
Glad I'm not alone in hoping they build a game with a failed Martian colony as a setting.
Ah that makes so much sense after they already did air and sea, but land is boring unless it's on another planet.
it will most likely be 100% planned for a long time - but more importantly, it will be the destination for billions of dollars worth of wealth extracted from the third world.
I can't wait until the S S Baconmeme has a tile fall off of it upon ascent due to a low bid contract because every tile had to be attached with exactly 69 screws.
Failure analysis engineer: "After a small piece of debris measuring 6.90e-4 meters in diameter struck the hull plating in a weak spot, it caused a hairline fissure that grew and led to fatal explosive decompression of the cabin exactly seven minutes afterwards."
Elon Musk: "nice"
After the latest Well There's Your Problem I'm hoping that Elon stays closely involved in this, thus unintentionally sabotaging it with his powerful incompetence
Someone learn to code so we can hack SpaceX and send the mars coloniser ships full of billionaires into the sun.
Founding a body of economic interest on principles of deregulation and no oversight but dressing it up with language about liberty and sovereignty? Sounds familiar...
Lol, deregulation and lax oversight are famously very desirable on an inhospitable planet. Techbros are the dumbest educated people you can get.
