• nilo@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Why wouldn’t he? Now even more money can flow towards spacex’s not-gonna-happen goal of going to Mars.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Elon Musk is also an idiot so why should we be listening to him? He already sees business opportunity for his bullshit SpaceX or some shit.

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      I think that’s probably the instigating factor. He saw on Twitter that the ISS has a big crack and the government is covering it up, he decided it’s true because in his mind trolls on the internet have a higher level of authority than any expert or scientist, and now he has to insist on deorbiting it to prove himself right instead of backing down or listening to any reason to the contrary.

  • The Apartheid Manchild has this weird obsession with Mars.

    There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next decade. (I frankly doubt that there will even have been human footprints on Mars in the next decade!) There will be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next century. There will likely be no permanent settlement on Mars in the next millennium. And I’m saying that last one not because I don’t think we’d have the technology in a thousand years, but rather because there is no point in living on Mars.

    Mars has nothing we need that’s worth maintaining a settlement in the face of conditions harsher than the absolute worst the Earth has to offer. If people want to live in a permanently cold shithole with nothing usefully accessible they can just build a house on Antarctica. It’s a far cheaper way to fuck around and find otu.