Musk says humans can be on Mars in four years. Many laugh, but some see purpose

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/musk-humans-live-on-mars-spacex

by rntn • 2 years ago

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markx2• 2 years ago

Lead from the front Mr Musk!

We'll meet you there.

peacechance• 2 years ago

100% support this. Send all the billionaires to Mars. They're so smart they'll sort it all out!

gus_massa• 2 years ago

I always thought he wants to go to Mars and all the SpaceX company is a trick to collect enough money to pay his trip.

dotcoma• 2 years ago

So, we will be on Mars before we get the long-promised “self-driving” Teslas ?

chipdart• 2 years ago

Musk says with a straight face that self-serving cars are 1 year away since the mid 2010s.

more_corn• 2 years ago

That’d be interesting. I can think of ten difficult big engineering problems that haven’t been solved yet, but there’s always hope.

I mean, there’s no ship yet. There’s a rocket and a plan, but the ship hasn’t been constructed.

The ship has to be refueled in earth orbit so there needs to be a gas station which hasn’t been constructed.

And it needs fuel. Which isn’t up there yet.

Also, there’s no mars habitat.

There’s no fuel plant for anyone who wants to go home.

There’s no plan, equipment or technology to account for the increased radiation.

There no plan for the soil of mars being toxic. There’s no greenhouse or other way to grow or raise food.

There’s no plant for oxygen and water generation.

There are no mars rovers for getting around while exploring and doing construction.

There is no heavy equipment for construction on mars.

I suppose if the plan is to just get them there and declare victory, maybe? If you want them to live… it might take a bit longer. And those are just the big engineering problems. There are probably a hundred little problems in each of the above.

rsynnott• 2 years ago

That would mean, essentially, launching in a bit over two years. Absolutely not gonna happen, not even for a suicide mission.

bigfatkitten• 2 years ago

So he thinks he'll be ready to go with a crewed mission either next month, or in Nov 2026?[1] He'll have a spacecraft, a crew and all the other logistics in place (including on Mars) before then?

Sure thing, buddy.

[1] https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php?maxMag=25&...

GGerome• 2 years ago

No life projet, only dark vision of his proper hallucinations.

Musk says humans can be on Mars in four years. Many laugh, but some see purpose

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