"Let's go to Mars" is a lot more ominous than it used to be, knowing who will be in charge of such a venture and their attitudes on, idk, everything involving society.
The push to the Moon was a national project that resulted from the vision of an elected leader with at least some controls on his power, and never promised to create a society beyond the authorities of Earth. Musk's push to Mars is the opposite.
The ISS is old and is only getting older, but if it means having a place to do some science that would otherwise not be done, and draining funds that would otherwise be used by an ethically-questionable human being to make himself the emperor of Mars... keep it in orbit.
> "Let's go to Mars" is a lot more ominous than it used to be, knowing who will be in charge of such a venture and their attitudes on, idk, everything involving society.
On the bright side, it'll happen, one might predict, about 6 months maybe 12 months at the outside after a Tesla has completed a fully autonomous coast to coast drive.
> "Let's go to Mars" is a lot more ominous than it used to be, knowing who will be in charge of such a venture and their attitudes on, idk, everything involving society.
What's the old saying about homeowners associations keeping Nazis busy so they can't do damage elsewhere? The quicker we can get this guy to Mars and set him up as Emperor God of Mars, the quicker we can get him out of our hair.
He never believed we would get to Mars or that there would be a self-sustained colony. Mars has only ever been a pipe dream about bilking the world's largest governments for the fattest contract in all of history.
That'll be ok for a couple hundred years, but not nearly long enough. Will get real bad after. And at the cost of ignoring extreme iniquity for a long long time.
The push to the Moon was a national project that resulted from the vision of an elected leader with at least some controls on his power, and never promised to create a society beyond the authorities of Earth. Musk's push to Mars is the opposite.
The ISS is old and is only getting older, but if it means having a place to do some science that would otherwise not be done, and draining funds that would otherwise be used by an ethically-questionable human being to make himself the emperor of Mars... keep it in orbit.